minutes of ESC call ...

* Present:
        + Eike, Astron, Markus, Rainer, Michael, Kendy, Bjoern,
          Michael Stahl, Caolan, David, Cedric, Andras, Petr,
          Lionel

* Completed Action Items
        + icons: poke Mango authors (Michael)
        + revert 3.6 to opaque background on Win7 (Kendy)

* Pending Action Items
        + [pending] merge the new pretty templates in place of the old ugly ones (Michael S)
                + new problems shown up with this -
                + Caolan has tool for templates to strip lang tags so it works
                        + try template lang tag stripping tool
                + need to fix & merge for Beta3
        + check new templates are using auto-fitting functionality (Thorsten)
        + notify all committers when we have a nice simple, minimal
          statement of what is required for gerrit written (Bjoern)

* Ongoing Action Items:
        + https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/ - click 'register' (All hackers)
        + then poke Norbert by E-mail to get yourself setup a commiter / reviewer
                + the E-mail used for openID registration and user-account
                  on is needed (cf. core/.git/config)

* GSOC update (Cedric)
        + mid term evaluations arriving soon
                - start thinking about what to put
        + face-to-face mentor meeting in Berlin
                + submit a private GSOC mentors' BoF @ conference

* Release Engineering update (Petr)
        + 3.5.5 status - RC2
                + currently being pushed to mirrors; on-track
                + not aware of any blockers => final.
                + 3.5.6 planned for September: 2 months away - a lot ?
                + do another in August between 3.6.0 and 3.6.1 ?
AI:                     + add to schedule (Petr)
        + 3.6 / Beta 3
                + deadline Monday for final string / late-feature freeze
                + Beta 3 issue: template blocking - Michael S kindly took it.
                + last beta before 3x release candidates
                        + commit bug fixes without review, until RC1
                        + then one extra review from RC1

* UI / design update (Astron)
        + splash screen + start-center
                + have a google+ vote on which one is best shortly.
                + get it included over the weekend
                + official TDF artwork handed around in a tar-ball
AA:             + mail the winning image to Thorsten (Astron)
        + Win7 glass foo reverted by popular request
        + templates as above
        + killing options:
                + nice research in:
                        + http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Whiteboards/KillOptions
                + would like CJK always-on, and with less UI
                        + but: three font-selectos in the paragraph
                          style dialog, not ideal.
                + (Caolan) 'C' locale is a 'no idea what people want' locale
                        the categories are the same as MS Office.
                        add an easy one-click button to see these ?

* CXX0X-ABI incompatibility can of worms (Bjoern)
        + gcc 4.7 - cxx0x extension is binary incompatible
                + incompatible stdlib symbols that bust
                + http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2012-06/msg00201.html
                + luck that it worked until now: it was compatible.
AA:             + should disable in our builds by default (Bjoern)
        + not easy to detect; crashers like:
                + https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51342
                + show up randomly.
        + lots of cascading dependencies of different ABI's ...
        + serious long-run problem for building vs. system packages
                + potentially accelerates our move away from a single
                  image that runs on every linux if disros pick up
                  the new ver.

* new cppunit release (Markus)
        + all our patches up-streamed into the new cppunit version
                + have a VisualStudio project file to build on win32
                + misc. sourceforge bug tracker bugs fixed.
                + build-system issues nailed
                + auto_ptr warning spew killed
        + master updated to latest cppunit
AA:     + look into misc. build issues on master (Michael)

* re-basing update (Michael)
        + 15k of 45k files complete - ~30%
        + 47 of ~150 directories complete
        + will incorporate migrate of idlc -> uccp
        + discuss other migrations as/when/next

* gerrit update (Bjoern)
        + still getting a couple of mails if you push:
                "something to review" and "it's already in"
                + goes away when gerrit owns the repo.
        + multiple efforts to update the helper scripts
AA:             + work on unifying spaetz + David's tools (Bjoern)
        + please review mst's patches for the -3-5 branch (mst)
                + only those in the reviewer field get mailed
                + not got a fire-hose to the ML yet

* un-merged patches in bugzilla (Bjoern)
        + Bjoern worked on a few, many are already merged => just close them.
        + query of doom for the recent batch:
          
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/buglist.cgi?chfieldto=Now&chfield=[Bug%20creation]&chfield=alias&chfield=assigned_to&chfield=cclist_accessible&chfield=component&chfield=deadline&chfield=everconfirmed&chfield=rep_platform&chfield=op_sys&chfield=priority&chfield=product&chfield=qa_contact&chfield=reporter_accessible&chfield=resolution&chfield=bug_severity&chfield=bug_status&chfield=short_desc&chfield=target_milestone&chfield=bug_file_loc&chfield=version&chfield=votes&chfield=status_whiteboard&query_format=advanced&chfieldfrom=2012-05-10&list_id=88624&field0-0-0=attachments.ispatch&bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&bug_status=NEEDINFO&bug_status=PLEASETEST&type0-0-0=equals&value0-0-0=1&product=LibreOffice

* QA update (Rainer)
        + new build feed ?
        + last Windows / master build from June 14th
                + need to fix the problems.
AA:             + look into fixing the master build (Fridrich)
        + contracting bugzilla improvements (blocking on SPI)
AA:             + poke again for a deadline (Michael)
        + bugsubmission assistant hero of the year: Rob Snelders
                + thanks for fixing the bugs.

* 4.0 - when is it ? (Kendy)
        + suggestion that 3.7 be 4.0 - no wild disagreement
        + discuss it next time / at the conference in Berlin ?

* 3.5 most annoying bugs ...
        + 73 open (of 241) older 72/238 68/231 67/229 67/226 62/219 60/213 67/211
             30%                   30%    29%    29%    30%    28%    28%    32%
        + https://bugs.freedesktop.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=37361&hide_resolved=1

* 3.6 most annoying bugs ...
        + 5 open (of 26) older 5/21 3/19 4/15 8/13
             19%                24%  16%  27%  62%
        + https://bugs.freedesktop.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=44446&hide_resolved=1

* 3.5 bugs tagged with 'regression'
        + 177(-2) bugs open of 643(+12) total

        * ~Component   count net *
        + Writer       - 65 (-1)
        + Presentation - 23 (+5)
        + Spreadsheet  - 20 (-3)
        + LibreOffice  - 15 (-1)
        + Crashes      - 16 (+1)
        + Borders      - 12 (+1)
        + Drawing      - 11 (-1)
        + Writer / RTF - 7  (-1)
        + Database     - 7  (+1)
        + Basic        - 3  (+1)
        + Migration    - 4  (+0)

        + 
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=regression%2C%20&keywords_type=allwords&resolution=---&query_format=advanced&product=LibreOffice&list_id=36764
        + Migration tracker: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43489

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