[Libreoffice] minutes of tech steering call ...

Attending: Andras, Thorsten, Norbert, Kendy, Caolan, Kohei, Petr, Bjorn

        + Bjorn introduction & welcome

        + 3.3.0 round-up / post-mortem
                + overall release went very well
                        + positive surprise by lack of issues
                        + no overly negative QA result
                + wiki help
                        + web services should be treated as software
                        + not fully there by RC, it doesn't ship
                + still an overly manual build / up-load process

        + merge things into 3.3.1 ...
                + new icons
AA:                     + announce a new deadline for RC1 (Thorsten)
                        + move to artists checking in and exporting
                          icons themselves
                + web help directed English (Kendy)
AA:             + Kohei's "writer useless in Japan" bug pair (Caolan to swap)
                + Thorsten - collecting pending svg/pdf patches for review
                + Caolan/David - list of trivial pieces
                + Andras - lots of l10n improvements ...
                        + already cherry picked
                        + many translations pending for 3.3.1 RC1
AA:                     + ping translators to be done for 3.3.1 soon (Andras)
AA:             + WMF rendering crasher - make it a blocker (Michael)
                + review blockers ( currently seven open )
                        + move mail merge issues to 3.3.2
                        + punt template issue to 3.3.2

        * RC1 due for tagging - Monday 7th heads  (Andras)

        + 3.4 / cherry picking / merging plans (Norbert)
                + dev300 imported - 425 CWS'
                        + typical conflicts with modelines
                        + include guards re-work a problem
                        + only few whitespace problems
                        + hids, gnumake, etc. re-work an issue
                + overall 5000 conflicts, varies per repo
                + conservative premerge works well
                * do merge in separate repos
                        + merge into a feature branch
AA:             + create separate staging repositories (Michael)
                * continue building pre-merges (Norbert, Michael)
                + postponing Norbert's new gnumake features until
                  dev300 merge.
AA:             + create integration/dev300 branch (Norbert)

        + nightly snapshots
                + status of public availability etc.
AA:             + need public links / DNS domain love (Thorsten)

        + FOSDEM update (Kendy)
                + hoodies - for devs + booth guys
                + T-shirts - for sale
                + stickers for laptops
                + beds for everyone inc. volunteers; sorted by Thorsten.

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