[Libreoffice] minutes of tech steering call ...

Present:
        Norbert, Rainer, Michael, David, Caolan, Kendy,
        Andras, Bjoern, Cedric, Thorsten, Petr, Andreas Mantke,
        Fridrich

* completed AA's
        + Petr to bump priority of most serious issues in 3.4.1
        + looking into lighting up the update reminder service (Kendy)
                + conditionally used only when build-special is set
                + requires patching / enabling for 3.4.1 / reviews
                  appreciated.
        + provide current linux environment gio / glib / gtk+ etc.
          versions to Caolan (Fridrich)
                + we include glib these days anyway for rsvg
                + cairo issues, so stick with last pre-cairo gtk ?
                        + can we use RTLD_DEEPBIND to overcome it ?
AA:                     + remove old non-cairo cases (Caolan)
AA:             + can now completely junk gnome-vfs backend (Caolan)
                        + incl. startup performance issue
AA:             + bin dlsym'd fontconfig & non-fontconfig code
                  paths (Caolan)

* AA still pending:
        + Easy Hacks - completion / fixing (Bjoern)
        + get SmartArt into master as an experimental feature (Thorsten)

* Agenda
        + Action Items
        + Extensions repo progress (Andreas Mantke)
                + worked with kind plone developer Elisabeth Leddy to
                  improve S/W centre for extensions, all in svn trunk
                + working with Florian & Alex Werner to get setup on Kermit
                + python problem solved
                + due to be ready this evening
                + potential issues around blob storage of extn's
                + needs UI team input ...
                + just update http://extensions.libreoffice.org/ re-direction
                + use second plone sub-centre for templates ...
                + need to transfer existing extn's from current wiki page.
                + extended QA phase not neccesary
        + Releng bits (Petr)
                + 3.3.3 release RC1 / summary / 3.3.4 thoughts
                        + available on download page
                        + fixes a number of annoying inc. security bugs
                        + 3.3.4 in the plan for ~two months from now,
                          pending interest for merging fixes.
                        + should we drop review for 3.3.4 (Bjoern) ?
                                - not many changes anyway, could review pre-release ?
                                - lack of interest may avoid pre-release review too ...
                                - leave single review in-place for 3.3.4
                + 3.4.1 status / roundup
                        + RC1 being up-loaded currently, for announce soon
                        + -lots- of important bug fixes, some data-loss
                          issues, many key 'most annoying' bugs.
                        + plenty left to work on
                + QA feedback (Rainer)
                        + eager to focus work on 3.4.x
                                + not much more man-power needed in 3.3.x
                        + un-touched bug report count still climbing
                                + 200 more in last six weeks.
                                + despite good work of triagers
                                + focus on most critical
                        + LibreOffice QA weekend in Essen this weekend ...
AA:                     + put Rainer in touch with Gerv (Michael)

        + Adabas DB - disable / removal for 4.0 (Francois)
                + a proprietary solution that was historically part of StarOffice
                + StarOffice version was crippled anyway - 100Mb size limit etc.
                + never shipped with OpenOffice.org
                + decision:
                        + kill it completely dead (Caolan, Michael, Norbert, Bjoern, Cedric)
                + thanks Francois for great research / consensus building
        + security co-ordination ... (Thorsten)
                + issues fixed in 3.3.3, how to handle it ?
                + mention it in the release notes in future.
AA:             + add Thorsten to security list so he can co-ordinate (Michael)
        + GSOC update / deadlines reminder (Cedric)
                + all students on-track, good integration
        + ux-advise feedback / status
                + looks good, lots of nice successful interaction there
        + gnumake4 migration (Bjoern)
                + rebased into 1 linear line of patches, based on m106
                + please do not touch the following modules, they are already
                  gbuildized in gnumake4:
                         basebmp basegfx canvas cppcanvas dbaccess idl
                         linguistic oox regexp reportdesign sax starmath
                         ucbhelper unotools wizards writerfilter
                         xmlreader xmlscript
        + no news from Lanedo
                + Mitch was on vacation
        + future of the bug tracking system
                + Rainer will have more ideas after the QA weekend

* Longer term items:
        + continue Lanedo' list of things that suck (Mitch)
        + discussion concerning discussion concerning
          future of our bug tracking System (Rainer)

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