minutes of ESC call ...

* Present:
        + Norbert, Eike, Stephan, Bjoern, Markus, Michael M, Rainer,
          Michael S, Mirek, Andras, Kendy, Petr, Cedric

* Completed Action Items
        + 3.6 blocker: Java not detected on Windows (fixed thanks to Stephan)
        + send list of new bugzilla component names (Michael S.)
        + create those components (Michael M.)
        + dig out the best bug-assignees wiki page for Fridrich (Rainer)

* Pending Action Items
        + [in progress] add encryption default UI option in 3.6 (Thorsten)
        + implement default document / style-loading before feature-freeze (Cedric)
        + update the splash-screen image for 3.6 (Astron)

* Release Engineering update (Petr)
        + 3.6 / Alpha 1 / Beta 1 status
                + problems building after frantic feature merges
                        + smoke-testing works, misc. regressions nailed.
                        + lots of build / testing
                        + we have a Beta1 tag
                        + building, hope to up-loads builds over weekend
                + triple review for all features on libreoffice-3-6
                        + Markus' color-scales & data-bars coming for B2
        + 3.5.5 rc1 - freeze on 11th June ...

* # of phone-lines issue (Michael)
        + 26 default recipients of agenda, of whom ~5 ~never show.
        + 20 lines maximum without incurring extra fees
        + volunteers to be pulled in only when needed (Cedric)
        + could we use a Mumble server (Bjoern)
        + wait and see if we hit the problem again (Stephan)

* GSOC update (Cedric)
        + remind mentors - need to have a fall-back mentor to
          cover vacations etc.
        + poke Cedric with names
        + good for students to get their work into master
          when it is working
                + requirement for mid-term payment anyway

* UI / design update (Astron/Mirek/Alexander)
        + Kendy/Mirek in-person hackery
                + start center tweaking / improvement
                + glass-menu improvements
        + splash-screen: call for proposals in the wiki
                + put your cool artwork proposal here:
                  http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Design/Playground/Splash_screen
        + Icon refresh update
                + pending license statements from authors
        + Template / master-pages
                + long discussion on ML
                + ship Alex's designs
                + several designs to the wiki
                + font issues need unwinding
                        + interop. issues there.
                + font embedding an ideal future solution (Tibby)
AA:             + ship the existing nine new pretty templates in place
                  of the old ugly ones (Bjoern)
        + bit behind for GSOC projects designs

* LinuxTag summary (Bjoern)
        + fun discussions with Jurgen, Svante, etc.
        + certification discussion went well
        + lots of positive big deployment contacts

* Wiki / Feature page update (Michael)
        + we should do that:
          https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/3.6
        + needs to be ~complete before building web pages / marketing
        + stubs for master / feature commits created at:
          https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/3.7

* Windows 8 certification (Eike)
AA:     + have a poke at the requirements (Andras)

* MSI cross-compile / packaging (Tibby)
        + write a small wrapper for msi creation code
        + getting a windows VM setup for re-factoring

* QA update (Rainer)
        + QA call roundup
                + bugzilla version picker change
                + having issues with OS ver. numbering / sort orders
                + created new version for 3.7 master
        + question wrt. backtraces in bug reports
                + prefer to get them as text files attachments
                        + avoids polluting queries
                + should we recomment text file attachments for
                  back-traces ?
                + inconclusive & hard to enforce.

* 3.5 most annoying bugs ...
        + 67 open (of 229) older 67/226 62/219 60/213 67/211 68/205 71/205 68/199 74/201
             29%                   30%    28%    28%    32%    33%    35%    34%    37%
        + https://bugs.freedesktop.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=37361&hide_resolved=1

* 3.6 most annoying bugs ...
        + 4 open (of 15) older 8/13
             27%                62%
        + https://bugs.freedesktop.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=44446&hide_resolved=1

* 3.5 bugs tagged with 'regression'
        + 173(+0) bugs open of 609(+19) 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       - 68 (-4)
        + Presentation - 21 (+2)
        + Spreadsheet  - 18 (+3)
        + LibreOffice  - 15 (+0)
        + Borders      - 14 (-1)
        + Crashes      - 11 (+0)
        + Drawing      - 10 (+1)
        + Writer / RTF - 7  (-3)
        + Database     - 8  (-1)
        + 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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