[Libreoffice] minutes of tech steering call ...

Attending: Norbert, Michael, Kendy, Caolan, Petr, David, Rene

        + Action items
                + correct threading fixes included [ Caolan ]
                + take a look at MPL v2.0 [ Norbert ]
        + Pending
                + poke Luis again wrt. extension proxies [ Michael ]
                + work out what mime type / icon schedule is [ Thorsten ]

        + RC1 status
                + 269Mb - prototype (saving ~70Mb)
                        + good to get my patch reviewed & merged
                + another 10Mb from Sebastian's theme patch (merged)
                + more to come from writer templates (pending)
                + Cedric / Miklos poked on rtf build error

       + review release blockers ...
                + https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31865
                        + BrOffice helpcontent fixed, misc. l10n issues (Petr)
                          win32 help-pack installer (Michael)
                        + Win32 / context menu (Tor working on it)
                        + unopkg crasher (un-repeatable) [un-block on this]
                        + Win32 l10n issue (fixed)
                        + Disk space issue (partially fixed)
                + aim for RC2 tagged by end of Monday (?)

        + wiki help status
                + RC2 will have help packs
                + testing xhp -> wiki with en_US translation
                + multi-lang wiki help for RC2
                        + language URLs to re-use the media wiki way.
                + as an aside:
                        + wiki help compressed is only 1.5Mb, images are
                          3.4M, interesting possibilities for help bundling
                          in future.

        + binfilter: disable / badger people on write (with Pierre)
                + Agreed: if someone wants to rip out the export code
                + Agreed: add warning dialogs on binfilter for load/save

        + review Governance ...
                + read through pieces on the call:
                  http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/CommunityBylaws
                + Petr - no logical problems with structures, sounds reasonable
                + David - errs on the side of over-governance & complexity
                + unrealistic members 'expectation of refraining from life'
                        + some generally don't obey laws so not worried roots
                          of desire to include it are bothering, concerns about
                          over 'professionalism' among hackers
                                + we would like it removed.
                + existing activity for three months
                        + encouraged by improved bootstrapping process to
                          allows us to include majority of our valued new
                          contributors day one.
                + annoyance with 'six month moral activity commitment'
                        + doesn't add anything, annoying to people that take
                          the text seriously (Norbert)
                        + perhaps have a special case / MC discretion to fast-track
                          especially good people (Caolan)
                        + at minimum soften the wording if possible 'moral' (?)
                + overall / otherwise bylaws seem good to all

        + reviewing old build/ patches ...
                + pushfont-psstream.diff - merge it, remove duplicate Type42 ver.
                + speed-local-link*.diff - bin it, for now, re-profile later
                + Rene working on merging 'Debian' section for 3.4 ...
                + abandon the go-oo easter egg
                + add easy hack to remove other known eggs

        + deferred Wols' issues until next time

        + strategy for cherry-picking/merging OOo dev300/3.4 changes
                + ongoing gnumake+xml store merge (Norbert)
                + cherry-pick things, or merge with git merge
                        + Kendy's preference for merge
                        + do per split-build / component merges
AA:             + write tooling to retain history across repo moves (Kendy)
AA:             + extend git tooling to import CWS' too (Kendy)

        + FOSDEM 
                + encourage everyone to submit talks ...
                        + 
http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/index.php?title=Marketing/Events/Fosdem2011

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