minutes of ESC call ...

* Present:
        + Andras, Mirek, Michael, Kendy, Stephan, Eike, Fridrich,
          David, Michael S, Petr, Rainer, Mitch, Caolan, Markus,
          Cedric, Tor, Kohei

* Completed Action Items
        + ask Astron to show up and/or Mirek for UI team (Michael)
        + concrete bugzilla component proposal for next time (Michael S)
        + re-visit ChromeOS fonts in another week's time (Caolan)
                + potential issues with fontconfig fallbacks
AA:             + switch to them in master if no reply (Caolan)
        + send magic who-has-accounts command to Cedric (Norbert)

* Pending Action Items
        + [working on it] pull up misc. internal versions for 3.6 (Fridrich)
                + latest cairo build bust on Windows - cairo needed for svg
        + propose repeat-format bits to the ODF/TC (Eike / Thorsten)
AA:             + Kohei needs to ack / sign off for Thorsten (Kohei)
        + rename VCL API to make it GetBeamerFoo & fix (Michael)
        + add encryption default UI option in 3.6 (Thorsten)
        + write 2 paragraph gerrit teaser to dev-list for gerrit (Bjoern)
        + [pending] think over consequences of moving master -> 3.6 on release etc. (Rainer)
                + some technical issues to be cleared, needs admin help [next week]

* Action Items review

* GSOC update (Cedric)
        + make sure students are ready, beginning of coding in 11 days

* UI / design intro (Mirek)
        + Mirek: from czech republic, 19, enthusiastic :-)
        + working on GSOC projects, testing a new process
        + analysing the proposals, one more week to get some
          tentative designs.
        + working on web buttons, conference banner etc.

* UI: Alexander's nice new templates
        + better than what we have now
        + GSOC project around templates management / new document dialog
        + Licensing for templates: CC0 is ideal ...
                + templates must be entirely original CC0 work.
        + currently have only 5-6 templates.
AA:     + get Alexander commit access & give a free hand (Michael)

* UI: lots of talks wrt. document themes
        + styles for the whole document
        + something we'd like to do
                + using well-defined style names and sticking to them,
                  easy to switch between them.
        + we need to be able to style the built-in / default styles,
          with no name / just an ID in ODF.
        + existing feature to import styles from another doc (Michael S)

* Release Engineering update (Petr)
        + 3.5.4 - freeze on May 14th (Monday)
                + please merge pending / outstanding patches
                + lots of nice fixes already, looks promising
        + Petr to decide if we need a new 3.5.x release during 3.6 ?
        + 3.6 status
                + June 4th feature-freeze: ~three weeks out

* build machines (Fridrich)
        + both Linux build machines outside the VPN
        + unwinding over-complex build environment
                + reducing need to ship custom std libs
AA:     + look at bytemark / win32 tinderboxes (Fridrich)

* bugs with patches in bugzilla (Michael)
        + unwound half a dozen or more
        + please encourage people to send patches to the mailing list

* OLE2 performance issue (Caolan)
        + major regression fix as side-effect of stricter security
          validation of streams.
        + fix / patch and further speedup sent to list for review

* QA update (Rainer/Petr)
        + add new components
                + "sdk", "framework", "graphics", "filters"
                + bugzilla assistant - reads components from wiki
                        + add them with different style.
AA:             + create new components next week (Rainer)
        + thoughts on a live / current issues ticker:
                - "wiki page looks ugly", "release in 3 days" etc.
                + avoids mailing list panics etc. ?
                + RSS feed / mailing-list for that ? - too late.
AA:             + connect Rainer / sysadmins about ticker (Thorsten)
        + Tango / icon problems
                + printer icons look greyed out in menus
                + Astron / Alex are the best contacts
AA:             + ask Jimmac for update Tango icons (Mirek/Astron)


* 3.5 most annoying bugs ...
        + 67 open (of 211) older 68/205  71/205  68/199 74/201 73/193 66/183
             32%                   33%     35%     34%    37%    38%   36%
        + https://bugs.freedesktop.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=37361&hide_resolved=1

* 3.5 bugs tagged with 'regression'
        + 145(-4) bugs open of 532(+27) total

        * Component    count net *
        + Writer       - 53 (+1)
        + Presentation - 22 (-3)
        + LibreOffice  - 13 (-3)
        + Spreadsheet  - 10 (+0)
        + Drawing      - 9  (+0)
        + Database     - 9  (+1)
        + Writer / RTF - 8  (-2)
        + Basic        - 2  (+0)

        + 
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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