minutes of (last weeks) ESC call ...

Joel kindly pointed out I forgot to send these: sorry !

* Present:
  + Joel, Thorsten, Lionel, Andras, David, Norbert, Kendy,
    Ahmad, Astron, Bjoern, Eike, Caolan, Stephan, Petr,
    Cedric

* Completed Action Items
  + publish results of automated load testing (Markus)
  + find out an ideal git rename limit number (Bjoern)
  + do RTL_LOGFILE changes (Bjoern)
    [ plus created an easy-hack ]
        + helping out with code-pointers for UI bugs (Kendy)
    [ toolbar issues in GSOC wiki page, and ref'd in bugs ]
  + Personas - update / de-couple built-in URL (Kendy)
    [ done - expected for 4.0.3, new URL there ]
    [ text 'Persona' left in 4.0.x for l10n text
      updated in master, GSOC task to move to
      API and browse in LibO ]
   + update mac SDK configure check on master (Norbert)
  + Lionel's UNO / forms interfaces: second view on what's up
    [ uses a different model, so confusing, but no change ]
  + Lionel's list-box change:
    [ hesitated a lot, but interaction with Validator
      interface makes this ]
AI: + double check this change (Eike)
  + mass-move & tweak of include paths (Bjoern)
    [ looks beautiful in master, two minor glitches
      15mins late executing, and broke cross-compiling,
      otherwise it went smoothly - thanks to all
      for help ! ]
    [ Windows builds take between 1 or 2 hours - there
      are two of them ]
  + on-line update 3.6.x -> 3.6.6 patch (Michael)
    [ should now be nearly automated, needs just the new
      commit id adding ]

* Pending Action Items
        + look at gradient / clipart issues (Michael)
  + look into Windows gallery builds (Michael)
        + 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 problems ]
  + add a suggestion to do a single bug triage
    to the GSOC requirements (Fridrich)
  + find a good public? test / webdav server for QA (Thorsten)

* QA update (Joel)
  + trying to double-up on each of the major components eg.
    the Bugzilla Submission Assistant (BSA)
    + questing for a website person to help-out with that
AI: + working on analysing minor release bugs
  + adding a new tag 'expert_needed' - needs a developer to triage
    them; QA volunteers can't do it themselves: odd setups etc.
        + 147 unconfirmed vs. 4.0, help appreciated with triage
    + bugs not going down or up - hovering around 150
                http://tinyurl.com/crxq9od (cf. topic in #libreoffice-qa)
  + https://bugs.freedesktop.org/page.cgi?id=weekly-bug-summary.html
    + more bugs closed than opened ...
      +151 -153
  + flip-side of better triage is regression spike
    + want to triage better / get better data / quality
      of regressions
  + bibisect:
    + plenty of bandwidth available to add 'bibsectrequest'
      to keywords for developers
    + pushed another repo - of released / tagged versions,
      most useful for minor releases.
  + seems to be a serious Win32 crasher bug:
    + https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63767

* Release Engineering update (Petr)
        + 3.6.7 schedule - deadline is June 24th for rc1
        + 4.0.3 rc2 deadline - April 29th
    + next Monday !
        + 4.1 - feature-freeze: three weeks out: May 20th
    + week on Monday - do an Alpha 0 of 4.1
    + get build / packaging testing / etc.

* Update on calc foo (Markus)
  + discussion to get rid of performance hobbling inherited
    number format issue.
    + still resolved to get rid of it.
    + Markus to work on it in a bit.

* MySQL connector
  + Fernand Vanrie - funding a re-compile for 4.0 and ->
    extension site (many thanks)
    + Work In Progress
    + will need another re-compile for 4.1 so we need to
      use the 'maxversion' 4.0.100 eg. dependency for it
    + new-re-compile due to ns datetime change.

* remove lo suffix from non-ure libraries (Bjoern)
  + https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63154#c6
  + shortening the names can lead to DLL naming conflicts, hence 'lo'
AI: + back-track and leave the existing macro to avoid issues (Michael)

* UX input (Astron)
  + icon theme faenza issues, already have the ability to override it
  + should we make it easy for extensions to install these icons (Michael)
    + no reason why we couldn't do that
  + flat icons on github / these new icons (Bjoern)
AI: + encourage these guys to work on new flat icon project (Astron/Bjoern)

* GSOC update (Cedric)
  + All mentors are now registered in Google Melange
  + already had a few (good) applications (since Monday)
  + students have until May 3rd (eight days) to file
  + then we go through a ranking process - to find best students
  + May 27th - they'll know.
  + some annoyances from being badgered ? => send to Cedric.
  + hassling lots of contributors vaguely about your application
    may well count against you.

* Certification Program (Stephan/Kendy/Bjoern)

* Open 4.1 MAB / regressions
        + 3 (of 14) older 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
        + 24 (of 122) older 22/118 19/115 18/112 17/111 19/109 19/106 17/105
             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 225) older 75/225 75/223 73/218 74/216 78/217 77/215 77/214
             33% 33% 34% 33% 34% 36% 36% 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'
        + 314(+6) bugs open of 1479(+15) total

        * ~Component count net *
        + Writer - 104 (+3)
        + Spreadsheet - 34 (+3)
        + Presentation - 31 (+0)
        + LibreOffice - 28 (+1)
        + Database - 24 (+1)
        + Crashes - 22 (+3)
        + Drawing - 20 (+0)
        + Borders - 16 (+0)
        + Migration - 3 (+0)
        + Basic - 3 (-1)

        + 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