minutes of ESC call ...

* Present:
        + Norbert, Rainer, David, Stephan (Astron), Stephan B,
          Fridrich, Tor, Kohei, Cedric, Petr, Michael, Andras,
          Thorsten, Caolan, Eike, Kendy, Alexander, Markus,
          Bjoern
                + ran out of phone-lines - urk.

* Completed Action Items
        + pull up misc. internal versions for 3.6 (Fridrich)
                + currently updating all the Strba-filter stack libs
        + connect Rainer with sysadmins wrt. status/live issues ticker
                + done on list
        + switch to ChromeOS fonts in master if no reply from Liberation
          team (Caolan)
                + resolution: update internal Liberation fonts as/when
        + rename VCL API to make it GetBeamerFoo & fix (Michael)
                + much cleaner.
        + write 2 paragraph gerrit teaser to dev-list (Bjoern)

* Pending Action Items
        + [in progress] add encryption default UI option in 3.6 (Thorsten)

* GSOC update (Cedric)
        + progressing nicely, check students are working,
          ping quiet ones

* UI / design update (Astron/Mirek/Alexander)
        + Icon refresh (Astron)
                + cataloging what can be refreshed
                + contact Lapo/Jakub later today
                + target is Beta 1
        + Template / master-pages / fonts re-work (Alexander)
                + delay using new fonts for 3.6 (metric
                  compatibility)
                + new branch: feature/master-page created
                + work getting up-loaded later today
                + embedded /  SVG resources in the wiki
        + extra/source/shellnew (Alexander)
                + are these the default empty document templates ?
                + no - everything is hard-coded (Cedric)
AI:             + implement style-loading before feature-freeze (Cedric)
        + lots of nice UI work in 3.6 already
                + many thanks to Kendy, Mirek, Astron, Alexander etc.
        + work on remote-control continues (Astron)
        + Windows theming work ongoing (Kendy)
AI:     + update the splash-screen image for 3.6 (Astron)
        + wish to contact GSOC students wrt. designs

* Release Engineering update (Petr)
        + 3.5.4 retrospective
                + pushed yesterday, lots of bug fixes,
                  annoying regression with shortcut translation
                  found - but just after the RC2 tag.
                + should we stretch the gap between release
                  candidates ?
                + bug had been there for ages pre RC1
        + 3.5.5: currently planned after 3.6.0
                + prolly too late currently
                + will shift to release between B2 and B3
        + 3.6 status
                + Alpha1 tag today, at point that the
                 tinderboxes looked green.
        + Stress Warning - approaching feature-freeze -
                + prepare for angst.
                + plan to branch / feature-freeze on Tuesday
                + then new features will require tripple review

* Known features racing the freeze (Michael)
        + CMIS / sharepoint integration (Cedric)
        + UI cleanups / improvements (Kendy)
        + color scales / data-bar dialogs (Markus)
        + master-page improvements (Bjoern)
                + artwork, traditionally frozen later
        + read-only document re-work (Stephan)
        + improved text properties for Corel Draw import (Fridrich)
        + re-licensing & Regina's work inclusion (Michael)

* Quality of round-robin patch review (Markus)
        + often generalists review specific patches for master
        + gerrit should be able to help (Norbert)
                + queueing and checking them
                + one-day timeout from gerrit: if no protest,
                  auto-merge to master.
        + concerns wrt. early merging, integrate everything
          that builds and looks reasonable (Fridrich)
        + people who are asked to do weekly patch-review
                + should be devolving those reviews where unusure
                  to specialists
                + specialists must react quickly if they want this.

* git submodules status (Norbert)
        + push back until 3.6.2 - out of time

* 3.6 blocker: Java not detected on Windows
        + breaks all of 'base'
        + would be good to fix before B1
        + https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48946

* LinuxTag update (Michael/Thorsten/Bjoern)
        + Daniel Naber - LanguageTool etc.

* re-basing on ALv2 code update (Michael)
        + please continue to hold queue of new / big code cleanup
        + some level of reverting/re-writing of last 0.3% of unclear commits
        + please ask before reverting code commits that are not your own

* QA update (Rainer)
        + Java problem on windows for 3.6 a priority.
        + bugzilla version renaming (discussin QA call)
        + create new bugzilla components
AI:             + send list of new component names (Michael S.)
AI:             + create those components (Michael M.)
        + think over consequences of moving master -> 3.6 on release etc. (Rainer)
                + blocking on new versioning scheme
        + https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/How_to_Improve_Bugzilla
AI:     + dig out the assignment wiki page for Fridrich (Rainer)

* 3.5 most annoying bugs ...
        + 67 open (of 226) older 62/219 60/213 67/211 68/205 71/205 68/199 74/201
             30%                   28%    28%    32%    33%    35%    34%    37%
        + https://bugs.freedesktop.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=37361&hide_resolved=1

* 3.6 most annoying bugs ...
        + 8 open (of 13)
             62%
        + https://bugs.freedesktop.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=44446&hide_resolved=1

* 3.5 bugs tagged with 'regression'
        + 173(+12) bugs open of 590(+23) total

        + Started to double-count some classes of regression, to split
          them out: Crashes and Borders
                + temporarily distorts graphs
                + encourages fixing of these bugs

        * Component    count net *
        + Writer       - 72 (+8)
        + Presentation - 19 (+1)
        + Borders      - 15
        + LibreOffice  - 15 (-1)
        + Spreadsheet  - 15 (+3)
        + Crashes      - 11
        + Drawing      - 10 (+1)
        + Writer / RTF - 10 (+1)
        + Database     - 9  (+0)
        + 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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