minutes of ESC call ...

* Present:
        + Eike, Stephan, Norbert, Michael, Andras, Rainer, David,
          Caolan, Petr, Markus, Cedric, Kendy, Fridrich

* Completed Action items
        + Add GSOC tasks to the wiki:
                + l/strace-alike for UNO (Stephan)
                        + switched for two other better uno related tasks
                + wrapper for MS compiler for autotools usage (Norbert)
                + table styles (Cedric)
                + calc filters performance improvements (Kohei & Markus)
                + refactor god objects (Bjoern)
                + Publisher importer + one other (Fridrich)
                + add specific writer / layout unit test task (Cedric / Michael S.)
                        + dropped for now

* Pending Action Items
        + [still pending] extract 64bit build hardware from firewall (Kendy / Admins)
        + rename VCL API to make it GetBeamerFoo & fix (Michael)
        + [ongoing] respond in the gerrit bug fdo#44498 with some rational (Bjoern)
                + call today on the topic
        + Add GSOC tasks to the wiki:
          https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Gsoc/Ideas
                + multi-user / telepathy / co-editing (Eike)
                        + fwd. Eike Svante's proposal (Thorsen)
                + layout / toolkit conversion task (Caolan)
                + add graphical conditional formatting task (Kohei)
                + bunch of ideas / slide-show re-work etc. (Thorsten)
                + better template translation (Andras)
        + take updated ESC composition to the board (Thorsten)

* Action Items review

* Release Engineering update (Petr)
        + 3.5.1rc2 up-loaded, and trickling out to mirrors
                + no blockers we know of (out mid next week)
        + 3.4.6rc1 - is being up-loaded
                + needs pushing to mirrors
                + hope we won't need rc2 since it's a final release
                + ie. should be back on schedule
        + thanks for all the fixes & reviews !

* gerrit update (Norbert)
        + got it up & running, going nicely, could run the same
          workflow as today, still at the beginning.
        + still working on it

* GSOC update (Cedric)
        + deadline for beautiful tasks is tomorrow !

* QA update (Rainer)
        + Bjoern stablishing a QA call every two weeks, call tomorrow
        + goal - to learn more about / co-ordinate QA activities
        + report after the call

* getting quite a lot of most-annoying bugs nominated (Petr)
        + are we accepting rather less annoying bugs ?
        + hard to judge, any bug is annoying
                - are they comparitively much more annoying ?
                - or is the reporter better at nominating
        + concern wrt. too easy to nominate most annoying (Rainer)
                + hard to get an overview
                + how many 'really' most annoying
                + lots of little annoyances, hard to see if they
                  affect many users.
        + gained 8 fixed 4 in the last week (eg.)
        + does it loose the function if there are too many ?
        + monitor for next week (Rainer, Petr)

* cost and usefulness of exceptions (Michael)
        + still pending analysis ...
AA:     + post results shortly (Michael)
        + concerns wrt. maintainability vs. code-size (Stephan)
        + brought lots of code into exception-land (Caolan)
                + need to post for compiler guys
                + consider the costs in more detail & need review.

* regression analysis (Caolan)
        + good number of regressions are in RTF
                + new, better implementation there, exchanging a bus-load
                  of horrible, twisty bugs with shiny new regressions.
                + with the hope that new code is easier to fix
        + also a number of DOCX regression
                + windows only - hard to collect trace
                + an intermittent iterator incrementing crash

* 3.5 most annoying bugs ...
        + 56 (of 153) open vs.: 52/145, 49/140, 44/132, 41/124, 32/104, 28/93, 21/76, 23/71
                37%              36%     35%,    33%,    33%,    30%,    30%,   28%,   32%
        + https://bugs.freedesktop.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=37361&hide_resolved=1

* 3.5 bugs tagged with 'regression'
        + 116(+7) bugs open of 379(+20) total

        * Component    count net *
        + Writer       - 51 (+4)
        + LibreOffice  - 12 (+2)
        + Spreadsheet  - 10 (+3)
        + Presentation - 10 (+0)
        + Drawing      - 9  (-1)
        + Database     - 6  (+0)
        + Basic        - 3  (+0)
        + 
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=regression%2C%20&keywords_type=allwords&resolution=---&query_format=advanced&product=LibreOffice&list_id=36764

-- 
michael.meeks@suse.com  <><, Pseudo Engineer, itinerant idiot