Minutes of the ESC call 2012-07-26

* Present:
    David, Lionel, Rainer, Fridrich, Alex Wilms, Norbert, Eike,
    Markus, Petr, Kendy, Caolan, Bjoern, Stephan, Eilidh, Michael,
    Thorsten

* Completed Action Items
    + get list of freedesktop mails to Bjoern (Norbert)
    + icon reviewing action needed for 3-6-0 etc. (Michael, Caolan)
    + review updated license / dos (Caolan, Bjoern)
    + check updater to push people through RC's to upgade (Kendy), k-j
      reminding
    + help get tinderboxes building up-loading msis (Andras)

* Pending Action Items
    + notify all committers when we have a nice simple, minimal
      statement of what is required for gerrit written (Bjoern)
    + check new templates are using auto-fitting functionality (Thorsten)
    + crediting: can we separate tempates in the credits page (Spaetz?)
    + quest for kind volunteer to update the website (Michael)
    + another review for splash-screens (Michael)
      -> hard to read text on windows, no release release blocker though
    + maildrop for Gerrit (David O.)

* Release Engineering update (Petr)
    + 3.6.0 / RC3 status
      * rc3 - uploading to mirrors
      * have rc4 on Monday due to Win32 startup bug
    + 3.5.6 RC1 - July 30th ish
      * moved commit deadline from Monday to Tuesday
    + Automatic update / suggesions policy
        + when do we suggest 3.6.0 to 3.5.5 users ? etc.
        * wait for 3.6.2
AI: * have bytemark windows box do release builds (Fridrich)

* GSOC update (Fridrich)
    + mark the dates - suggested pencil down is Aug. 13th, firm pencil
      down is Aug. 20th
    + down one student, otherwise going well
    + have code cleaned-up and on master by the end of the GSoC term

* 4.0 - when to call it that ? (Kendy)
    + marketing and technical reasons - get rid of cruft
    + http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/LibreOffice4
      * split out actually incompatible changes
      * find volunteers for those
      * leave 4.0.0-99 open for incompatible changes, freeze again for 4.1.0
      * weigh benefit of cleanup against cost in ecosystem
AI: * everyone interested in cleanups - claim your work until next ESC!
AI: * prepare section on wiki page for this to sort in (Kendy)

* UI / design update (Alex)
    + Splash screen improvements for windows
    + Wrong toolbar colors on Windows, Kendy will fix for 3.6.1
    + new document send icon from Astron
    + new about box artwork and background image
    + Mango icon alternative licensing question
    + template dialog gsoc rework by Raphael, plans for global option
      dialog cleanup for 3.7/4.0 by Mirek

* MSI cross-compilation from Linux / final-status (Kendy/Tibby)
    + code mostly in master, few remaining issues in installer perl code
AI: + Eilidh on it next two days

* QA update (Rainer)
    + nothing out of the ordinary; great 3.6 bugfixing, ~90% of the
      MABs for 3.6 fixed!

* gerrit update (Bjoern)
    + still working on maildrop, still need to fix the problem of one
      change to be applied on multiple branches

* 3.6 most annoying bugs ...
    + 11 (of 48) older 8/42 10/37 11/35 5/26 5/21 3/19 4/15 8/13
         23% 19% 27% 31% 19% 24% 16% 27% 62%
    + https://bugs.freedesktop.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=44446&hide_resolved=1

* 3.5 most annoying bugs ...
    + 73 open (of 250) older 72/249 67/244 70/243 73/241 72/238 68/231 67/229 67/226
         29% 29% 27% 29% 30% 30% 29% 29% 30%
    + https://bugs.freedesktop.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=37361&hide_resolved=1

* 3.5 bugs tagged with 'regression'
    + 181(+11) bugs open of 710(+19) total
    + Started to double-count more classes of regression, to split
      them out more easily: Crashes, Borders, Migration
        + temporarily distorts graphs
        + encourages fixing of these bugs

    * ~Component count net *
    + Writer - 70 (+3)
    + Presentation - 20 (+0)
    + Crashes - 16 (+3)
    + LibreOffice - 15 (+1)
    + Spreadsheet - 17 (+3)
    + Database - 12 (+2)
    + Drawing - 11 (+0)
    + Borders - 9 (-1)
    + Writer / RTF - 7 (+2)
    + Migration - 5 (+1)
    + 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 tracker: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43489

Cheers,

-- Thorsten

Thorsten Behrens píše v Pá 27. 07. 2012 v 01:22 +0200:

* Release Engineering update (Petr)
    + 3.6.0 / RC3 status
      * rc3 - uploading to mirrors
      * have rc4 on Monday due to Win32 startup bug

We do rc4 today (Friday). The Windows rc3 build was wrong, so we needed
another build anyway.

    + 3.5.6 RC1 - July 30th ish
      * moved commit deadline from Monday to Tuesday

Thus no need to move the commit deadline for 3.5.6-rc1. Let's do it on
Monday as usual.

Best Regards,
Petr