[Libreoffice] minutes of tech steering call ...

* Present:
        + Michael, Thorsten, Kendy, Caolan,
        + Norbert, Petr, David, Kohei, Andras

* Previous Action Items:
AA:     new Evo addresbook bug - not done (Michael)
        download javascript test site setup: Christian did it
        post a dependency graph of split modules: Petr posted it.
        fantastic conference - blog to follow - Thorsten, done.

* 3.3.2 updates (Petr)
        + no known regressions
                + another successful release
        + several bugs missed the deadline
                + should we have a larger RC / final gap ?
                + are the blockers new regressions ?
                        + no - pre-existing bugs people want fixed.
        * Actions:
AA:             + re-title tracker to "most annoying" from "blockers" (Petr)
AA:             + potentially a 10day RC -> release gap better ? (Petr to write up)

* Release planning
        + cadence for 3.3.x stable releases
                + 2 month gaps for 3.3.3+ releases

        + adjusted timeline 3.4.x releases
                + tinderboxes to provide pre-RC builds
                + most developers bug-fixing on 3-4 branch
                        + with regular merging to master
                + first releases by April.
                        + plan for 2x Betas + 3x RCs once
                          per week come April

* 3.4 pieces:
        + Merging status / retrospective (Norbert)
                + getting import right key
                + pre-merging not such a great idea
                + much easier merging m103 etc.
AA:             + ideally work on per-CWS merges (Norbert)
                        + work needed to overcome re-merging issues.

* Feature freeze:
        + branch April 1st ...
        + breaks to feature-freeze allowed if approved
          by 2x others with different/no affiliation

* un-splitting git repo
        + tinderbox + automated bisection is harmed by split repos (Norbert)
                + bisecting merges from elsewhere makes bisection hard (Kendy)
        + split build helps build time and dependencies (Kendy)
                + want to split GNOME + KDE backends too
                + not necessarily the same as split git (Norbert)
                + can bloat SRPMS hugely / require re-packing (Kendy)
        + parallelising merging is hard (Michael)

        => good idea to have since repo: re-evaluate
                + if we have gnumake in place - for robust incremental building
                + and smaller / individual CWS merging
                + need to exclude l10n and system stuff.
                + concern with git commit -a (navigates entire repo)
                + ensure no unbearable performance issues.

* l10n changes (Andras)
        + pushed framework into git, with 2 langs
AA:             + further integration (Petr)
        + transparent for developers
        + .po files stored in repository
        + Makefile extracts a new en_US SDF from the source
        + and delivers SDF particles to the target dirs
        + more organised translation storage
        + translators work on .po files anyway
                + from pootle / or external sources.

* Lubos' overriding / warnings goodness
        + exactly the warning, that would have detected automatically
          some recently problems.
        + Caolan builds with warnings as errors
AA:     + commit it / futher investigation (Caolan)


* Bjoern's initial impressions thread / summary (Bjoern)
        + build.pl - errors / usability etc.
        + punted due to meeting conflict.

* Anything else that is happening
        + nothing this week.

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