Minutes of the ESC call 2013-08-15

Attending: Caolan, Christian, David, Eike, Kendy, Kohei, Lionel,
           Michael S., Norbert, Petr, Robinson, Stephan, Thorsten,
           Tim, Tsahi

* Completed Action Items:
    + add 'download updates from inside LibO' to GSoC wiki page (Astron)
    + come up with proposal for what to do about .debs (retired, Petr
      fixed a set of regressions in 4.1.1)
    + polish & push chrome performance bits to a feature branch (Pierre-Eric)
    + send details / howto to have patches with their author's name
      submitted to Tsahi (Michael)

* New Action Items:
    + roll out Easy Hack rotation, incrementally improve afterwards (Robinson)
    + introduce interested people into update service maintenance (Kendy)
    + poke fdo admins for own BZ instance (Thorsten)

* Pending Action Items:
    + dig out the URL for GSOC travel funding (Cedric)
    + upgrade 3.6 users to 4.0.5 once that is out (Thorsten/Kendy)
    + create i18n tool to ensure style issues (also unique fn names)
      don't recur fdo#67786 (Andras)
    + switch to pure sidebar mode in master - but not enabled by
      default, except in Impress (Caolan)
      - pending UX input
    + come up with a proposal on what still needs improving in sidebar
      land (Astron)
    + suggestions for next API incompatibility release timing welcome
      (Bjoern)

* Release Engineering update (Cloph)
    + 4.0.5 rc2
       - RC1 is published, rc2 done & pre-announced, mirror push
         ongoing
       - scheduled release next week
    + 4.1.1 rc2
        + Writer / style translation issue status (Cedric)
        - commit deadline next Monday, tagging on Tuesday
    * 4.1.2 RC1
        - first week of September

* QA update (Robinson)
    + increase in unconfirmed bugs
      - renewed QA team effort to stay on top there

    + Regressions in 4.2
      - some regressions found in 4.2pre, need to encourage more tech
        savvy users to test pre-release builds
      - Cloph: new style download page has pre-release builds
        selectable
      - Robinson: use the online update to indicate there are new
        pre-release builds
      - Norbert: don't publicize nightly master builds too widely
      - Thorsten: possibly pick some master builds before official
        alphas, to get early feedback on new features

    + proposal to migrate bugzilla to our infra
      - Robinson: QA needs more tweaks, BZ should be tailored much
        better to project needs
      - have direct admin access, timely responses
      - rename the version field label to better match our usage
      - add a number of useful extensions
      - Norbert: avoid to have QA/Users to work around limitations in
        BZ, that burn time and energy
      - Thorsten: as a first step, try to get our own BZ instance at
        fdo

    + Nightly build availability
      - two additional Windows builders now with nightly uploads

    + https://bugs.freedesktop.org/page.cgi?id=weekly-bug-summary.html
        +134 -96 (+38 overall)
         many thanks to the top four bug squashers:
          Urmas 8
          Joel 8
          Miklos 6
          ign_christian 4

* Open 4.2 MAB
        + 6/6 7/7 2/2 2/2 1/1
        + https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65675

* Open 4.1 MAB
        + 15/81 13/77 8/68 11/64 3/55 7/52 7/48 2/42 4/39 5/37 7/32 3/26 3/23
           19% 17% 12% 17% 5% 14% 15%
        + https://bugs.freedesktop.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=60270&hide_resolved=1

* Open 4.0 MAB
        + 44/171 32/157 14/138 13/137 12/137 12/135 12/134 12/133 12/132 16/132 14/130
           26% 20% 10% 9% 9% 9% 9% 9% 9% 12% 11%
        + https://bugs.freedesktop.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=54157&hide_resolved=1

* Bibisected bugs open: whiteboard 'bibsected'
        + 41 (of 137) older ?
                + http://bit.ly/VQfF3Q

* all bugs tagged with 'regression'
        + 333(+?) bugs open of 1875(+?) total

        * ~Component count net *
                Writer - 101 (+?)
           Spreadsheet - 44 (+?)
           Libreoffice - 35 (+?)
          Presentation - 27 (+?)
               Crashes - 23 (+?)
              Database - 20 (+?)
               Drawing - 16 (+?)
               Borders - 15 (+?)
             Migration - 3 (+?)
                 BASIC - 3 (+?)
        + 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

I'm leaving here the link to the last * Open 3.6 MAB:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=44446&hide_resolved=1

as some of you already know 2 weeks ago I started reviewing all existing mab3.6 and move those who were still valid into the mab4.0 list.

at the beginning 62 mab3.6 were present, most of them were moved to mab4.0 (as you may see from the peak in stats from last 2 weeks), some were fixed be devs and few were downgraded from MBA status.

actually the remaining 3.6 MABs are only 13... those are the ones I had troubles to understand/reproduce so help from anybody else round here would be very appreciated to finish the 3.6 --> 4.0 migration