[Libreoffice] minutes of tech steering call ...

Attending: Caolan, Kendy, Norbert, Thorsten, Rene, Petr, Chaosun, Michael

Minutes:

* 3.3 issues
        + meta-bug for blockers:
                + https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31865
                        + nominate blockers by adding comments
                        + decisions on the dev mailing list
                + BrOffice branding win32 installer
                + Mechtilde's migration fixes
                        + done need cherry picking
                + wiki / on-line help
                        + Kendy - due early next week: Wednesday
AA:             + work out what mime type / icon schedule is [ Thorsten ]
                + l10n : string freeze
        + decision: call next release RC1
                + merge m17, tag it Tues 30th
                + code freeze for RC1
                        + all fixes must be code reviewed by one
                          other person
                        + watch commits on the commit list:
                          http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice-commits

* Windows
        + image size progress
                + some cab compression ratio tweaking success
                + more work to our target of under 300Mb
                + aspire to further drastic shinkage for 3.3.next
        + crashes on exit
                + vile threading issue in destructors
                        + no simple 'lets leak like OO.o'
                        + a choice of memory corruption / crashes either way
AA:             + correct fixes coming [ Caolan working on it ]
AA:                     + send reverted patch details to Caolan [ Norbert ]
                + hope is that (eventually) for the first time the smoke tests
                  will become truly reliable

* master
        + 'build' deprecation feature
                + bootstrap the new master build
                + working well, wiki page ready for migration
                        + some issues with Windows / configure
                        + potential for confusion with bin/g scripts
                        + gives a single consistent developer build story
                + distributors, continue to use 'build' for now
                + continues to be straight through complete build
                + Rene & Petr - happy with the direction.
                => merge it to master whenever possible
        + vnext versioning scheme
                + not happy for master to be 3.3.1 [ Thorsten ]
                + depends on release frequency [ Petr ]
                + need a distinct naming scheme
                + tentative decision - 3.4 as the next release

* MPL referencing Netscape
AA:     + take a look at MPL v2.0 [ Norbert ]
        + Netscape means 'Mozilla' cf. last comment in:
                + http://www.mozilla.org/MPL/mpl-faq.html
AA:     + ping Luis wrt. Mozilla assurance [ Michael ]

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