Re: [Libreoffice] minutes of tech steering call ...

Hi TSC,

Can such minutes be posted in TDF blog? I think it deserves publicity: 
Either for its content and for visibility + vitality of the TSC and 
LibreOffice.
Thanks

Regards
Olivier

Em 17-06-2011 11:13, Michael Meeks escreveu:
> 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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