[Libreoffice] minutes of tech steering call ... (Tuesday)

Attending:
        + Norbert, Andras, Thorsten, Caolan,
          Kendy, Bjoern, Petr, Rene

* Previous Action items:
        + "writer useless in Japan" bug(s)
                + fixed as well as possible for now
                + magic fallback / Windows font needs some
                  love
                + lots of obscure character range oddness
                  import is ok, and export should look the
                  same. Needs ODF ext'n for overriding char
                  direction.
                + regressions nailed in 3.3.2
        + Norbert has shared his up-load script
        + next step binary uploads, coming soon (Kendy)
                + 9 tinderboxes
                        + 4x Windows, 2x Mac, rest Linux
                        + +3 new windows tinderboxes in last week.
                + Fridrich working up-load piece
        + chase new Evolution addressbook bug (Michael)
AA:             + no action yet; get off backside (Michael)

* 3.3.1 retrospective
        + wrong
                + a few icons missed here / there, nothing
                  critical
                + a couple of days of slippage inherited
                  from a late RC1
        + right
                + no very obvious regressions added

* 3.3.2 status
        + again lots of patches for review just before freeze
          deadline
AA:             + send a reminder a week beforehand (Petr)
        + download page javascript generated from php
AA:       needs tweaking - need to play with test site (Thorsten)
                + volunteers to improve this appreciated.
        + two nominated blockers:
                + random, non-producible Mac issue,
                  Java + ReportBuilder related

* aligning Debian / Ubuntu spec. (Bjoern / Rene)
        + shared git repo for packaging
        + things are getting better, much less divergence

* python foo for debugging from dmalcolm (Caolan)
        + integration in gdb prototype here:
          https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34745
        + potential to make gdb finally usable ...

* merge status / update (Michael / Kendy)
        + char-set related mis-importing of mercurial made
          things much worse than they could be
                + now fixed
        + consider resetting the merge, move to m101
                + do a one-pass re-merge
        + kendy to push to repository tonight and
          re-verifying import quality
AA:     + post a dependency graph of split modules (Petr)

+ Web office review (Michael)
        + better integration with open-source CMS / DMS is good
        + HTML5 / VCL target star-portal like backend is good
                + scalability will be exciting
                        + existing web solutions are featureless
                          so, scalability a good problem to have.
                + UI issues are fun
                + should be a great party trick.
        + GSOC slots / resource requests etc.

* Cebit
AA:     + fantastic conference - blog to follow (Thorsten)

* starting to consider formalizing the ESC
        + ~11 people suggested ?
        + Rene, Caolan / David, Bjorn, Norbert,
          Thorsten, Myself, Andras ... +3 ...
        + Great pool of others guys to consider at minimum
                Rainer (QA), Design guy (?)
                Takashi Abe, Sebastian, Thomas Arnhold, Christina ...
        + v. flexible composition preferred with non-members
          routinely invited for calls etc.

* for next time:
        + Bjoern's: after action acclimatisation report / thoughts

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