[Libreoffice] minutes of tech steering call ...

Present:
        Thorten, Norbert, Kendy, Bjoern, Petr,
        Michael, Andras, Kohei, Mitch

* AA completed:
        + Thorsten to fix last vmethod warnings (done)
        + update release plan page based on minutes
        + get some graphite2 screenshot / feature foo (done)
        + add Unity integration screenshot (done)
        + tinderbox still has an unfortunate domain-name (fixed)
        + the objectlists stuff breaks on OSX -- naming issue ? (fixed)
                + over-long paths can bust shell limits
        + sw unittest should be activated soon too (done)
        + single-tree git command performance checks git status/commit
                + warm performance adequate: 0.6secs (status) no difference to ./g

* AA still pending:
        + encourage QA guys to quietly dig at snapshots (Sophie + Thorsten)
        + discuss Debian adding a second apply file support to
          apply.pl or using patches/hotfixes/ directory (Rene + Bjoern)
        + research when gio came into widespread being (Caolan)
                cf. http://www.gtk.org/download-linux.html
        + update impress 3.4 feature list (Thorsten)
        + rough m106 trial merge in a feature branch (Kendy)
        + draft EasyHacks page selecting 10-20 tasks now (Bjoern)
                + road-blocked by missing native SQL connection fd.org
                  bugzilla
        + the rdb setup stuff is still too cumbersome (Bjoern)
        + send Bjoern the coldstart cache cleaning file (Michael)

* Membership: sign up for it:
        + http://www.documentfoundation.org/application-for-tdf-community-membership/

* Patches from new contributors
        + master regularly not building [urk! needs more reliable tinderboxes]
        + focus on getting patches reviewed & included quickly
        + more encouraging and including people:
                "what do you want to do next?" etc.

* lanedo intro.
        + Mitch been with gimp forever, lanedo for last 6 years
        + company building out LibreOffice experience
        + pleased with openness and welcome from community
        + fixing bugs in UI first, most experience here
        + appreciate pointers to work

* 3.4 status
        + beta2
                + up-loading now, looks lots lots better
                + localisations broken on Windows, already fixed
                  for beta3 - please do not report.
        + beta3 next week
AA:     + sync reality -> wiki (Petr)
        + beta1 snafu recurrence avoidance
                + pre-flight check-list for builders
AA:             + add in-tree test, run every build for this issue
                  type - scan all component libraries for each lib (Michael)
                + encourage wider testing of daily snapshots.
AA:             + addressing build reliability problems as well (Michael)


* Moving forward:
AA:     + get SmartArt into master as an experimental feature (Thorsten)
AA:     + UNO / ABI breaking changes into a set of wiki page for 4.0 (Bjoern + Kohei)
                + add binfilter removal (Norbert)

* configure.in
        + product-defaults should be the same as configure defaults
          (assuming the pre-requisites are on the machine)
                + language-packs the exception (Petr)
                + potentially different platform things (Petr)
                + as much as possible in the default, if people
                  think too slow - manually disable bits (Norbert)
                + could add 'minimal' distro-config/ easier to build (Petr)
                + care required with random configure switches (Bjoern)

* OSL_ASSERT changes - to really assert / not dump big backtraces ...
        + an old favorite chestnut
        + assertions should abort, but they don't
        + hundreds are just warnings
        + global replace 'assert' for 'unhappy' ? (Michael)
        + correlation between module and way assertions are used, ie.
          sal - real asserts, but writer - advice (Thorsten)
                + replace per module ?
        + rename is fine on master, promotion back to asserts one by one
          possibly the answer

* Bjoern's initial impressions thread / summary (Bjoern)
AA:     + write list of things that suck for newcomers with taste (Mitch)


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