[Libreoffice] minutes of tech steering call ...

* Attending:
        + Norbert, Bjoern, Kendy, Caolan, Petr,
          Rene, Michael, Andras, David, Fridrich

* Action item review:
AA:     + "writer useless in Japan" bug - in progress (Caolan)

* daily snapshot downloads
        + tinderbuild script consolidation underway (Kendy)
                + single script for all platforms
                + log mailing beautiful
AA:             + next step binary uploads, coming soon (Kendy)
AA:             + Norbert to share his script
                + code in bootstrap/bin/tinbuild
        + http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ setup (thanks Thorsten)

* 3.3.1 status update
        + translators working hard
                + 52 languages improved coverage since 3.3.0
                + better spell-checking coverage
                + completeness expected to increase further 3.3.2
        + Win32 help packs finished up-loading
        + Mac / Linux / main binaries there / distributed
        + rc2 / release expected on Tuesday.
AA:     + chase new Evolution addressbook bug (Michael)
        + web / phone-home updating service
                + should be disabled for Linux's native update services
                + will be disabled on vendor products
                + awaiting community impl.

* FOSDEM summary
        + extremely encouraging:
                + T-shirts sold well and paid for themselves + Cor's travel
                + 1200 stickers many stuck to laptops
                + random congratulations from unknown people
                + our dev room well attended, lots of great content
                + several people contributing code changes at the booth
        + need a volunteer to edit and up-load the video recordings (poke Kendy)
        + FOSDEM (as always) rocks.

* m98 merging progress update
        + bootstrap, libs-extern, libs-extern-sys,
          libs-gui, postprocess, ure, sdk - done.
AA:     + libs-core - in progress (Thorstens)
AA:     + filters - in progress (Michael)
AA:     + help - in progress (Kendy)
AA:     + calc - near complete (Kohei)
        + base, impress, writer - pre-merged
        * the critical path is here.
        * m100 is next
        * smaller pull-ups in a future not distracted by
          lots of one-off launch / heavy lifting.

* Google Summer of Code
        + integrate with Easy Hacks
AA:     + building page of tasks (Fridrich)

* patches/dev300/apply merging (Bjoern)
        + impl. a shell script to merge patches with nice commit info
        + remove OOo4Kids*, CrossWin32, Evo 1.x connector

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