minutes of ESC call ...

* Present:
  + Norbert, Ahmed, Eike, Joel, David, Kendy, Lionel, Markus,
    Michael M, Norbert, Thorsten, Cedric, Ellie, Caolan, Petr

* Completed Action Items
  + back-track and leave the existing svlibrary macro (Michael)
  + encourage faenza guys to work on new flat icon project (Astron/Bjoern)

* Pending Action Items
        + look at gradient / clipart issues (Michael)
  + look into Windows gallery builds (Michael)
  + double check Lionel's list-box / API change (Eike)
        + need design for copying styles between templates (Astron/UX)
                + either in that dialog or a new dialog
                + also issue with only editing templates that are in the mgr
  + feedback on stepped-lines dialog (Astron)
        + buy Windows build hardware / hosting (Norbert)
    + [ ongoing expense management issues ]
  + add a suggestion to do a single bug triage
    to the GSOC requirements (Fridrich)
  + find a good public? test / webdav server for QA (Thorsten)
  + kill calc / inherited number formatting for 4.1 (Markus)

* QA update (Joel)
  + working on analysing minor release bugs (Joel)
    + 50% of issues were not minor release bugs
      Ubuntu released with 4.0.2.2 - and can't go and update
      the version every.
    + everyone reports against the ver. they're using.
  + some soul searching as to how to do better
  + issues with extensions
    + hard for QA to tell if the bugs are ours or not
    + if the change is a regression, and the reason is not
      well-known: documented API change / stlport issue etc.
      + is the bug suitably concrete / filed by an ext'n
        developer / expert
        => is our bug, leave it open
      + otherwise close: not-our-bug
    + is there any way to reliably contact extension authors (Thorsten)
      + no ! and 90 bugs vs. ext'ns that are not ours (Joel)
AI: + connect Joel with Andreas to get contact details (Thorsten)
  + nice mockups from Robinson for better version info:
    + https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/File:Mockup-of-repro-table.png
  + Tollef - suggested creating a new bugzilla (on fdo?)
    + under very early stage consideration
  + https://bugs.freedesktop.org/page.cgi?id=weekly-bug-summary.html
    + several more bugs opened than closed
      +152 -123

* Release Engineering update (Petr)
        + 3.6.7 schedule - deadline: June 24th for rc1
        + 4.0.3 rc2 status
    + one potential blocker - search always case sensitive
      + fixed already; but a regression since 4.0.3
      + thus more serious than a normal issue
    + https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63779
    + do tag now & start builds again
    + approval from Caolan, Fridrich, Norbert => do 4.0.3rc3
      + stick with a similar timeline ?, slip 2 days
        + 4.1 - feature-freeze: ~two weeks out: May 20th
    + Alpha 1 from Monday(ish) that looks good of 4.1
      + to do build / packaging testing / etc.

* UX input
  + missing a UX guy.

* New committer added
  + Khaled Hosney - Harfbuzz hero most welcome.

* GSOC update (Cedric)
  + need to start rating student proposals *now* we need an answer
    for how many amazing vs. acceptable proposals we have to bid for
    a dual slot count on Monday.
  + last year students could do up-to-twenty applications, this year
    only five => few fishing applications, more real.
  + then later we go through a further ranking process - to select
    the best students
    + May 27th - they'll know.

* Certification Program (Stephan/Kendy/Bjoern)
  + next batch of developers for certification
    + no objections
    + to be announced later.

* KACST update (Ahmad)
  + RTL issues are looking good
  + improving writer default templates idea:
    + asked design list for a better Writer default template (Cedric)
AI: + need to review that discussion - and/or ask for incremental changes (Ahmad)
    + working this for 4.1
      + go for it & manage the reaction.
  + coretext work
AI: + ask for status for 4.1 etc. (Tor, Abdulmajid)
  + training in .cz in June.

* Open 4.1 MAB / regressions
        + 3 (of 16) older 3/14 2/13 2/11 4/10 5/10 5/10 4/8 4/8 2/5 1/2 3/3
        + https://bugs.freedesktop.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=60270&hide_resolved=1

* Open 4.0 MAB / regressions
        + 18 (of 125) older 24/122 22/118 19/115 18/112 17/111 19/109 19/106 17/105
             14% 20% 19% 17% 16% 15% 18% 18% 16%
        + https://bugs.freedesktop.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=54157&hide_resolved=1

* 3.6 most annoying bugs ...
        + 75 (of 226) older 75/225 75/225 75/223 73/218 74/216 78/217
             33% 33% 33% 34% 33% 34% 36%
        + https://bugs.freedesktop.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=44446&hide_resolved=1

* Bibisected bugs open: whiteboard 'bibsected'
        + 30 (of 90) older 28/88 26/85 24/83 27/83 25/78 29/78 32/79 27/72
        + re-built the query to avoid pre bibisected mess
                http://bit.ly/VQfF3Q

* all bugs tagged with 'regression'
        + 299(-15) bugs open of 1495(+16) total

        * ~Component count net *
        + Writer - 93 (-11)
        + Spreadsheet - 32 (-2)
        + LibreOffice - 29 (+1)
        + Presentation - 29 (-2)
        + Database - 23 (-1)
        + Crashes - 20 (-2)
        + Drawing - 18 (-2)
        + Borders - 14 (-2)
        + Migration - 3 (+0)
        + Basic - 3 (+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