[Libreoffice] Minutes of first LibreOffice technical group call

Present:        Thorsten, Caolan, Rene, Michael
Invited:        Petr, Fridrich

* release plan / branching
        + decided to continue merging patches until 30th October
                + no large / risky / de-stabilising (new) feature work
                + merge existing patches and CWS' from everyone
                        + ie. merging existing, tested, distributed features ok
                + merge cleanups, and bug fixes too
                + improving the build system
        + Oct 30th - freeze / branch for 3.3
                + critical bug fixes / l10n etc. merging
                + final release when ready.

* git branches / commit model
        + we discussed various ways of using git, patches etc.
        + we will move away from patching
        + 'master' the default branch will always be the bleeding edge
                + developers (or tinderboxes) will tag when a known
                  good build is identified: eg. linux-built, windows-built
                + people by default help fix the bleeding edge

* tackling / resourcing blockers
        + windows lang-pack issues (Michael)
AA:             + send proposed solution to the list
                + work on it [ also BrOffice.org splash in Brazil ]
                + Fridrich to build lang-packs separately
        + deeper identifier scrubbing 
        + pending patch merging (Caolan / David / Fridrich / Kohei)

* general updates
        + in a development phase for all of Fedora, Debian
          and openSUSE
AA:     + expidite freedesktop account creation
        + split build of great interest to packagers, particularly
          on slower machines
                + needs more polish to make it pretty
AA:     + need a new source license header template (Michael)
                + with no shouting in it.
                + in meantime add our (C) where it applies

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