[Libreoffice] minutes of tech steering call ...

* Present:
        + Michael, Nobert, Kendy, Andras, Thorsten,
          Caolan, Petr, Bjoern, Kohei, Fridrich

* Previous Action Items:
(done)  new Evo addresbook bug (Michael)
(done)  re-title to "most annoying bugs" not "blockers" (Petr)
(done)  potentially a 10day gap between RC1 and release better ? (Petr to write up)
(ongoing) work on per-CWS merges as pre-requisite for merged git repo (Norbert)
(done)  further l10n / .po file based translation integration (Andras)
(done)  missing fixes from -3-3 merged to -3-4 (Pmladek)
(done)  commit Lubos' nice new warning work (Caolan)

AA:     Thorsten to fix last vmethod warnings

* 3.4 status
        + status of tinderbox builds / beta releases (Fridrich)
                + a Windows build is up-loaded for testing
                + Mac daily builds going nicely
                + Linux is in progress on new hardware.
AA:     encourage QA guys to quietly dig at snapshots (Sophie)
                + no announcement of RCs yet etc.
AA:     check make > 3.81 everywhere to avoid segv's (Fridrich)
        + festering 'build' module
                + who is using it for 3.4 and why ?
                + not RedHat, not TDF, Debian* are
                + Debian*
                        + patch apply file, since source archives
                          are a tar of tars
                        + change pending on Rene
                + flattening not thought to be feature freeze breakage
AA:     + discuss Debian adding a second apply file support to
          apply.pl or using patches/hotfixes/ directory (Rene + Bjoern)
        + schedule review
                + Feature Freeze 1st April (passed)
                + http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleasePlan
                + String Freeze due (11th April)
                + tag for first beta Monday 11th
                        + in time for the QA days 15th/16th
                + RC1-3 the week after
                        + heavy-lifting patch review deferred to
                          latter RC.
AA:     + update release plan page based on minutes
        + translation update (Andras)
                + pootle updated, moved from Brazil to VM
                + up and running, and translators can start
                        + around a month until release
        + state of master
                + much improved with fixes from libreoffice-3-4 branch
                + merge m105+ to master, and cherry-pick fixes
                        + Kohei to do calc merging from now on.

* New baseline for Linux distribution (post RHEL4) ?
        + SLED10 (2006) ?
                + - glibc 2.4, binutils 2.16, linux 2.6.16, gcc 4.1.2, gtk 2.8,
                   gstreamer-2.10, Java 1.6 ?
                + still have to build new bintuils/gcc for new compiler (Fridrich)
                        + RHEL4 (2002/3) - originally for gtk 2.4
                + potentially hard link to cairo
        + Caolan:
                + want to bin gnome-vfs & use gio
                + want to hard-link to Cairo and bin old text APIs
                        + can upgrade internal cairo (Fridrich)
AA:     + research when gio came into widespread being (Caolan)
                cf. http://www.gtk.org/download-linux.html

* Reminder / review of release notes page:
        + http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/3.4
AA:             update impress feature list (Thorsten)
AA:             get some graphite2 screenshot / feature foo (Michael)
AA:             add Unity integration screenshot (Bjoern)

* Easy Hacks re-work status update (Bjoern)
        + bug-ifying all non-top-20 tasks
        + required mediawiki extension
                + pending in admin queue

* GSOC update:
        + http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/profile/mentor/google/gsoc2011

* bugs / issues:
AA:     + tinderbox still has an unfortunate domain-name (Thorsten)
        + most annoying bugs:
                + https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35673

* Meeting: an hour earlier ? 15:00 UTC
        + Fridrich, Bjoern, Michael, Norbert, Petr - ok / preferred

* Bjoern's initial impressions thread / summary (Bjoern)
        + again remainder - punted to next time

* Bug count vs. 3.3 vs. 3.4
        + discuss with QA team
                + bulk ask re-test in 3.4
        + encourage fdo admins to upgrade bugzilla
        + Beta testers / QA guys need to know about:
                + https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35673

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