minutes of ESC call ...

* Present
  + Norbert, David, Joel, Andras, Stephan, Kendy, Eike, Michael S,
    Astron, Petr, Lionel, Caolan, Thorsten, Michael M, Bjoern

* Completed Action Items
  + master / unordf bug-fix before pushing writer doc (Michael S)
  + tweak default assignee / mail alias to include 'un-assigned@' (Joel)
    + lovely visible 'Not Assigned's everywhere ...
  + poke docs team wrt. writing off-line help for impress-remote (Thorsten)
    + thanks Sophie !
  + ping Marc wrt. creating a page with certified consultants in
    alphabetical order with rates etc. (Joel)
  + full-word selection / editing ergonomics cf. UX-advise
         https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46517
         + notabug (Michael S)
  + on-line update tweaks (Kendy)
    => upgrade everything to 3.6.5
    => upgrade all 3.*.0 -> 4.0.0
    + done for two weeks
  + continue ns timestamp discussion & conclude (Stephan/Lionel/Thorsten)
    + best outcome is to break it completely incompatibly
    + some knock-on ODF / standardisation impact
  + minimal triage for good mentors for proposed easy hacks (Bjoern)
    + timed out on this AI

* Pending Action Items
  + send out next round of certification invitations (Stephan/Bjoern/Thorsten)
  + Bugzilla attachments not set to autodetect (Bjoern)
    + sent to Tollef - who is deadly busy just now.
** + Update gsoc ideas page
    https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Gsoc/Ideas (all)
    + everybody should update their their tasks and add new ones
  + disable Rhino / Beanshell unless in experimental mode (Michael M)
  + helping out with code-pointers for UI bugs (Kendy)
    + [ pending ]
  + look at gradient / clipart issues (Michael)

* Release Engineering update (Petr)
  + 4.0.1 rc2 status
    + builds available, synching to mirrors
    + a slew of bugs included; please continue fixing.
  + 4.0.2 rc1 *next deadline*:
      + March 11th
    + 1 week + 1/2 from now.
  + 3.6.6 rc1 commit deadline 3 weeks out: Monday Mar 18

* UX input (Astron)
  + new icon for impress remote merged and pending 4.0.1 release

* final gnumake removal: status & thanks (Bjoern)
  + Some fantastic work here, we now build everthing in
    one gnumake process
    + http://skyfromme.wordpress.com/2013/02/28/one/
  + build dependency graphing in a post prj/ world (Stephan)
    + need a tool for dependency graphing
    + will we get new circular dependencies ?
      + no library linking will help and make will fail
        on circular deps (Norbert)
  + what is needed is a tool to parse the output of
    "make -n -p" - that dumps all the rules (Michael S)
    + not as obvious as build lists were (yet)
    + the build.lst's were rotting anyway (Stephan)
  + a lint tool for make -n -p would be nice (Michael S)
AI: + write the start of a that tool (Michael)
    + then remove the prj/build.lst and d.lst files.
    + parse only the linktarget pieces (Bjeorn)

* merging external changes (Michael)
  + tool in contrib/dev-tools/scripts/annotate.pl
  + all non-trivial patches require sign-off from relevant
    developer preferably ESC member and testing
  + and another sign-off for back-porting to -4-0

* decision / dropping stale xmerge filters (Andras)
  + drop the minimally functional / not installed ones (Caolan)
    + ActiveSync 3.5 (for win95), pocket word,
      minicalc, htmlsoff, wordsmith
    + written often as mini samples / proof of concept.
  + decision: drop the unused filters, but retain the xmerge
    framework itself

* Coverity progress (Markus/Norbert/Caolan)
  + new build up-loaded, it'd be nice if more people would
    register / help with the reports:
    http://scan.coverity.com/user_register.html project: 'LibreOffice'
    + then send your account details to Markus / Norbert.
  + making good progress < 600 'high impact' reports left.
  + un-caught exception reports more or less useless, always
    somewhere an exception is not declared.

* Automated crash on import test results (Markus)
  + still hurt by the toolchain bug on SLES11
    + http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15167
AI: + chase temporary PTF for the server (Kendy)
  + not publish until we're confident there are no false-positive

* Certification Program (Stephan/Kendy/Bjoern)
  + sent out list to ESC of invitations, no objections now,
    in one week - Cert. Program guys will async. certify
    them all as approved.

* New features / improving communication (Joel)
  + How to identify new features quickly so QA can
    tackle them (can devs put whiteboard status "NewFeature") ?
    + Enhancement bugs should be marked 'Resolved FIXED'
    + CC Dev's responsible on any bug reports
    + encourage 'works for me' comments in such bugs.
    + try to avoid impress remote / unity issues next time.
  + If a master bug is reported vs. a new feature in the first month
    + CC the dev responsible for the new feature.
  + If a feature is specific

* Hard Hacks:
  + http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/HardHacks
  fdo#61025 - Crash when adding a comment on a cell (Markus)
  fdo#40594 - FILEOPEN .docx (MSO2010) does not show CHART object (Michael)
  fdo#59932 - FILEOPEN: Text boxes with bulleted lists containing (Muthu)
  fdo#37580 - Assign layout malfunction and crash on slide with formula (Thorsten)
AI: + can't reproduce in 4.1.x - can we get more details (Joel)

* QA update (Joel)
  + since 3.6.0 35% of our bugs were filed via the BSA (Joel)
  + under 150 unconfirmed vs. 4.0, help appreciated with triage.
    http://tinyurl.com/a3csc2o
  + QA will add signatures to triaging comments something like:

    LibreOffice is powered by a team of volunteers, every
    bug is confirmed (triaged) by human beings who mostly
    give their time for free. We invite you to join our
    triaging by checking out this link:
    https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/BugTriage and
    join us on freenode at #libreoffice-qa

    Also, good bug reports help tremendously in making the
    process go smoother, please always provide
    reproducible steps (even if it seems easy) and attach
    any and all relevant

  + QA added a projects page:
    + https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA_Projects
    + add new pieces of interest for QA there.

* Open 4.1 MAB / regressions
  + 2 (of 5) older 1/2 3/3
  + https://bugs.freedesktop.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=60270&hide_resolved=1

* Open 4.0 MAB / regressions
  + 14 (of 99) older 15/96 16/94 16/91 13/79 17/76 10/69 14/64 13/48 13/41 9/34
       14% 16% 17% 18% 22% 22% 14% 22% 27% 32% 26%
  + https://bugs.freedesktop.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=54157&hide_resolved=1

* 3.6 most annoying bugs ...
  + 75 (of 211) older 76/210 57/189 44/175 45/175 43/174 42/173 36/166 37/164
       36% 36% 30% 25% 25% 25% 24% 22% 23%
  + https://bugs.freedesktop.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=44446&hide_resolved=1

* Bibisected bugs open: whiteboard 'bibsected'
  + 27 (of 72)
  + re-built the query to avoid pre bibisected mess
** http://bit.ly/VQfF3Q - has the latest query for un-fixed bisected bugs
    + hopefully will help people find successful bisections faster
AI: + export a more helpful link for next minutes (Kendy)
    + the bibisect is really excessively useful

* all bugs tagged with 'regression'
  + 292(-3) bugs open of 1333(+32) total

  * ~Component count net *
  + Writer - 100 (-4)
  + Presentation - 30 (-3)
  + Spreadsheet - 28 (-4)
  + LibreOffice - 30 (+5)
  + Crashes - 21 (-2)
  + Database - 22 (+1)
  + Drawing - 17 (+2)
  + Borders - 13 (+1)
  + Migration - 5 (+0)
  + Basic - 2 (+0)

  + https://bugs.freedesktop.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=regression%2C%20&keywords_type=allwords&resolution=---&query_format=advanced&product=LibreOffice&list_id=36764
  + Migration: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=43489&hide_resolved=1