Minutes of the ESC call 2013-08-01

Attending: Sophie, Tibby, Kohei, Astron, Norbert, Lionel, Bjoern,
           Joel, Cloph, Petr, Thorsten

* Completed Action Items:
    + fdo#60858 needs input (Astron)
    + file svg / help->about issue in master as 4.2 MAB (Astron)

* Pending Action Items:
    + improve configure to avoid versioning mistakes (Cloph)
    + come up with proposal for what to do about .debs (Rene, Bjoern,
      Petr)
      - some discussion around this issue, publishing plain tarballs
        has the rather unacceptable drawback that menu integration is
        missing
      - distro packages (for widely-deployed distro versions) usually
        not available at the time of upstream release
    + rotate easy hacks on https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Easy_Hacks (Joel)
      - first demo up from Robinson:
        http://testing.eagleeyet.net/mw/index.php/EasyHacks
    + polish & push chrome performance bits to a feature branch (Pierre-Eric)
      - ongoing
    + take a look at the gerrit migration (Norbert)
      - ongoing, waiting for migration to new vm
    + dig out the URL for GSOC travel funding (Cedric)

* Release Engineering update (Petr)
    + 4.0.5 rc1 status
      - ongoing, needed Win32 & Linux build box setups. PPC is missing
        still.
    + 4.1.1 rc1 commit deadline Aug 5th
        + Writer / style translation issue evil status (Cedric)
AI: * Cloph to poke andras wrt. translation updates / README
AI: + Impress autoplay feature -> deferred to 4.1.2 (Thorsten)
      https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/4998 - needs triple review

* when to update the on-line update code (Michael)
AI: + upgrade 3.6 users to 4.0.5 once that is out (Thorsten/Kendy)
AI: + propose download updates from inside LibO as GSoC idea (Astron)

* API date issue (Lionel/Stephan)
    + patches pending on gerrit for -4-1
AI: + review & get them in before Monday:
      https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/5245

* QA update (Joel)

    + French BSA update
      * thx to Robinson / Sophie!
      * 6 reports so far
      * Sophie thinks it'll pick up in September

    + Contest result blog
      * http://joelmadero.wordpress.com/2013/07/30/contest-results/

    + QA netbook blog
      * http://blog.documentfoundation.org/2013/08/01/libreoffice-qa-volunteers-armed-and-ready/

    + Bibisected but not fixed (current count 51)
      * https://bugs.freedesktop.org/buglist.cgi?list_id=328050&status_whiteboard_type=anywordssubstr&query_format=advanced&status_whiteboard=bibisected%2C%20bibisect40%2C%20bibisect35&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&product=LibreOffice

    + Closing 3.6 MABs
      * Tommy did that, thanks a lot!

    + MAB handling:
      * by next major release, merge into single list
      * instead of individual mails, get daily MAB digest (Bjoern)
      * every 4-5 months, cleanse older, not-so-critical unfixed bugs
        from MAB list

    + https://bugs.freedesktop.org/page.cgi?id=weekly-bug-summary.html
        +217 -148 (+69 overall)
         many thanks to the top five bug squashers:
     Urmas 15
     Cor Nouws 14
     ign_christian 11
     Jesus Corrius 7
     Lionel Elie Mamane 7

* UX input (Astron)

    + happy about new image and text toolbar from GSoC
    + looking into about:config UI now

* Extra items:
    + suggestions for next API incompatibility release timing welcome (Bjoern)

* Open 4.2 MAB
  + 2/2 2/2 1/1
  + https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65675

* Open 4.1 MAB
        + 8/68 11/64 3/55 7/52 7/48 2/42 4/39 5/37 7/32 3/26 3/23 4/17
           12% 17% 5% 14% 15%
        + https://bugs.freedesktop.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=60270&hide_resolved=1

* Open 4.0 MAB
        + 14/138 13/137 12/137 12/135 12/134 12/133 12/132 16/132 14/130 16/129
             10% 9% 9% 9% 9% 9% 9% 12% 11% 13%
        + https://bugs.freedesktop.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=54157&hide_resolved=1

* Bibisected bugs open: whiteboard 'bibsected'
        + 33/128 33/125 34/124 34/123 36/122 38/119 37/114 39/114 41/112 36/105
                http://bit.ly/VQfF3Q

* all bugs tagged with 'regression'
    + 301(+10) bugs open of 1801(+39) total
    * ~Component count net *
            Writer - 94 (+0)
       Libreoffice - 32 (+3)
       Spreadsheet - 30 (+0)
           Crashes - 24 (+0)
      Presentation - 24 (+0)
          Database - 23 (+0)
           Drawing - 14 (+1)
           Borders - 13 (-1)
         Migration - 4 (+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

-- Thorsten