minutes of ESC call ...

* Present:
        + David, Stephan, Thorsten, Andras, Markus, Caolan,
          Bjoern, Norbert, Fridrich, Michael S, Eike, Kohei,
          Tor, Petr, Kendy, Lionel, Lubos

* Completed Action Items
        + review and re-close 3.4.x MAB fixed in 3.5.x (Rainer)
        + Apple Developer Enrollment (Thorsten)
        + switch doc encryption default back for 3.5 (Thorsten)
        + add a bold heading to GSOC page: LibreOffice is easy & fun to hack (Cedric)
        + update new file license template to MPLv2 (Michael)
        + mail the mailing list wrt. GSOC filing urgency (Fridrich)
        + help Ellie get mingw build going (Tor)
        + get bytemark access to Caolan (Norbert)
        + turn exception checking on for gcc in debug builds (Lubos)

* Pending Action Items
        + [wedged on nbg admins] firewall issues for new linux tinderbox (Thorsten)
        + add encryption default UI option in 3.6 (Thorsten)
        + rename VCL API to make it GetBeamerFoo & fix (Michael)
        + poke RedHat security guy wrt. keys (Caolan)
        + [pending] pull up misc. internal versions for 3.6 (Fridrich)
                + started with pixman, poked cairo

* Action Items review

* Release Engineering update (Petr)
        + 3.5.3 rc1 - tagged yesterday to get late fixes
                + builds for Linux+Mac, Win32 in progress
                  Mac-PPC slow as usual.
                + expected this evening / tomorrow morning
                + may be announced at the weekend.
                + new mirror synching improved / faster box.
                + final date for rc2 deadline mailed out on Monday

* GSOC update (Fridrich)
        + 10 slots, and one cross-project conflict
        + all-night de-duplication meeting fun.

* Hack-fest roundup / suggestions for the future (Thorsten)
        + summaries on the planet / Thorsten's blog
                + 90 commits from the hack-fest attendees
                + lots of new things started
        + http://blog.thebehrens.net/2012/04/16/libreoffice-hamburg-hackfest-2012/
        + do it again soon
                + nice to have more of a focus, and do more outreach

* Exporting redundant symbols for unit tests (Lubos)
        + change reverted re-shrinking symbol tables
                + slower, and 1Gb larger
        + expectation that build-system changes be announced (Moggi)

* rtl / css namespace issues (Lubos/Michael)
        + should we have general 'using' statements ?
        + rtl::OUString is a bit of a pain
        + Lubos:
                + would like to use the short name everywhere,
                  except for exported headers.
                + add a unit test for all exported headers.
        + Stephan
                + not eager to see it
                + but happy enough to see it go in
        + using css:: namespace instead ?
                + what is this css:: not friendly for new newcomers (Tor)
                + lo:: [!] - annoyances with aliases ...
                + replace css:: with nothing - bad (Stephan)
                + help get ready for lo4
                + prefer to push back to LibO 3.6 and a bigger cleanup (Stephan)
AA:     + get headers to allow rtl:: namespace omitted in soon (Lubos)
                + but not do the big seds yet
        + concern wrt. the KDE4 experience & big bang changes (Lubos)
                + ie. fixing API changes now incrementally is a win
        + doing it sooner, not later is good of course (Stephan)
        + LibO 4.0
                + planned to be incrementally developed / migrated anyway
                + postpone until license change done (Bjoern)
                + concerns about breaking all extensions at once (Norbert)
                + better to do incremental improvement ?
                + how much will we get done for this anyway ?
                + consider longer support cycle for LibO 3.6.x etc.
                        + discuss late.

* tinderboxen / status (Norbert)
        + bytemark machine #1
                + Fridrich is setting up the fast win32 machine,
                  aim to get v. fast debugging snapshots
        + bytemark machine #2
                + working on *BSD in virtualbox with little
                  joy help appreciated (Norbert)
                + need 3x BSD virtual-boxes (ideally)
        + Debian fixing bash-isms left & right due to dash (Lionel)

* misc. font bits
        + Google ChromeOS fonts
                + based on a renamed Liberation + added some additional glyphs
AA:             + investigate (Caolan)
        + Ariel Narrow replacement / query
AA:             + do we ship Liberation Narrow (Bjoern)

* QA update (Bjoern/Petr)
        + Rainer sends regrets
        + created bibisect screencast to help QA guys.
                + trained people in how to do it at hack-fest
        + now no need for 'EasyHack' prefix for bug subjects in bugzilla anymore
        + MAB re-evaluation is useful but can create more work than fixing the bugs
                + best to focus on NEEDINFO
                + situation calmed down again
                + what is MAB for ? is it needed at all ? can we use severities ?
                + severities/priorities - user tweakable, and thus not useful.
                + would a bugzilla privilege setting for those help ?
                + discussed at hack-fest, no much better solution available.
                + decision: stick with status-quo for now MAB works quite well.
        + could we sort by # of CC's - a better metric perhaps.

* 3.5 most annoying bugs ...
        + MAB review dropped 2 bugs
        + 68 open (of 199) older 74/201 73/193 66/183 58/168 57/157 58/153 52/145 49/140
             34%                   37%    38%   36%    35%    36%    37%    36%    35%
        + https://bugs.freedesktop.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=37361&hide_resolved=1

* 3.5 bugs tagged with 'regression'
        + 150(+2) bugs open of 485(+10) total

        * Component    count net *
        + Writer       - 54 (+0)
        + Presentation - 23 (+1)
        + LibreOffice  - 18 (+1)
        + Writer / RTF - 13 (+1)
        + Drawing      - 9  (+0)
        + Database     - 8  (+0)
        + Spreadsheet  - 7  (+1)
        + Basic        - 2  (-1)

        + 
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=regression%2C%20&keywords_type=allwords&resolution=---&query_format=advanced&product=LibreOffice&list_id=36764

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