minutes of ESC call ...

* Present
        + Kohei, Rainer, Cedric, Lionel, Eike, Astron, Andras,
          Stephan, Caolan, Michael, Thorsten, Norbert, Kendy,
          Michael S, Petr

* Completed Action Items
        + task selection for LibreOffice 4 wiki:
                + http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/LibreOffice4
                + [ punted for now ]

* Pending Action Items
        + [pending] notify all committers when we have a nice simple, minimal
          statement of what is required for gerrit written (Bjoern)
                + reviews done
        + make bytemark windows box do release builds (Fridrich)
        + maildrop for Gerrit (Bjoern)
                + 3/4 done, in progress idly.
        + 4.0 issues (Everyone)
                + everyone interested in cleanups - claim your work until next ESC!
                        + http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/LibreOffice4
        + crediting: can we separate tempates in the credits page (Spaetz)
                + [ in progress ]

* Release Engineering update (Petr)
        + 3.6.0 update & post-mortem
                + all was quiet until the last two release candidates
                + only panicing at the last minute
                + was timing related / summertime ?
                + first-start / updating bug issue
                        + underestimated
                        + Stephan: bad timing, reported on Linux etc. used
                          non-released builds between.
                        + by chance, Michael fixed the windows build
                        + prereg feature only used on Windows, fix for issues
                          didn't make it into 3.6 from master.
                        + systemic problem where people are encouraged to
                          remove their user-installation vs. moveaside & make
                          available.
AI:                     + update QA FAQs / challenge answers to encourage moving
                          profiles away instead of deleting (Rainer)
                                + user installs can have sensitive data though,
                                  care needed - but keep that around.
                        + non-upgrades for profiles from dev / intermediate versions
                                + removing user-profile inconsistent data hid issues
                                  and hurt testing too
                                + Always create code to upgrade / never advise removal
                                  of inconsistent data.
                                + Rainer happy to help with profiles.
                + suggest zero tolerance policy for upgrade issues during development
                        + could have upgrade tinderbox (Bjoern)
                        + be nice to have some unit tests too (Michael)
                        + most important thing to get to better tests (Stephan)
                + standard test for how profile updates work (Rainer)
                        + it ~never works, but put more focus on this
                        + the problem was so frequent people got used to it.
                + adopt a near zero tolerance policy for upgrade issues during development
                        + bibisect can cause problems (Bjoern)
                        + agree - lots of ignoring of profile problems
                          with WORKSFORME when profiles are removed (Rainer)
                                + should not tolerate this.
                + collecting user-configuration - have a script / app to
                  dump it as a .zip ?
AI:                     + file an easy-hack to ship a binary to dump it (Petr)
                + 2x days of performance issues on the main website
                        + can cause issues
                + missing MSI signatures
                        + Andras forgot; normally some RC tester checks/reports that
                        + Thorsten added validation to upload scripts.
                + few native-lang projects deferred announce due to dictionaries bug
        + 3.6.1 RC1
                + pull the timeline in - do RC1 in 1 week instead
                + freeze / checkin deadline on Monday
                + RC2 in one extra week.
                + fixes the upgrade bug earlier.
        + 3.5.6 RC2
                + tagged this week / final version
                + builds being up-loaded / announce soon - on track.

* GSOC update (Cedric)
        + bit more than a week to go, make students aware it's almost over
        + pencils down / evaluations by August 20th

* UI / design update (Astron)
        + discussion about updated icons for gallery
        + ongoing options discussion
        + official git repo for artwork ?
                + should we re-use the old repository ? (no)
        + ongoing discussion around artwork licensing
        + new 'templates' repository created
                + can we push templates there ?
                + 70 new templates up-loaded to the wiki page
                  http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Design/Call_for_Templates
                + need CC0 / authenticity statements & push those to git.
        + intends to package Astron & Alexander's templates first (Bjoern)
                + and do a package release
                + packagers who want sexy new templates take note ...
                + need some macro sanity checking
        + Astron / Alexander to provide editorial feedback & improvement
          encouragement
        + Toolbar fixing status - on Kendy's todo.
        + Bjoern created some Design easy-hacks
                + 
http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Easy_Hacks_by_required_Skill#Easy_Hacks_requiring_Design_Skills

* Adobe Sans Pro bundling (Caolan)
        + 
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/08/adobe-releases-source-sans-pro-a-new-open-source-font/
                + lots of positive noise about it, no problem adding it (Caolan)
        + no Cyrillic or Greek, perhaps bundle other fonts instead (Astron)
        + we have an only-ascii font currently (Caolan)
AI:     + re-think our bundled font list (Astron / design-team)

* Call for Papers - talks @ LibreOffice con
        * ESC agenda - 16th day before for an in-person meeting / hack-fest
                + please book flights for a day earlier
        + http://conference.libreoffice.org/call-for-paper
                + co-hosting talks is fine
                + find a parterner for your short talk
                + potentially add a "15mins" to the subject if you
                  want a short talk
                + please submit lightning talks too

* liblangtag issues (Eike)
        + controversial new required LGPLv3 dependency
                + implements BCP47 language codes
                + lots of nice code cleanup possible
        + very simple replacement for iOS / Android
        + not an ideal situation
        + invest outside the wrapper & lets see

* AOOi git import
        + with full OO.o history back to day one on top of OOO340_m1
                http://download.go-oo.org/AOOi/
        + like to push it to our git repo
                + adds another 40Mb of download +5% ...
AI      => just do it (Kendy)

* bugzilla / gerrit integration (Bjoern)
        + concern about getting spammed a lot from calc guys.x
        + postpone discussion for next week.

--- out of time ~everything postponed below ---

* 4.0 - ongoing discussion (All)
        + best ideas heard so far: to do an ABI thaw for 4.0,
          and keep in place until after 4.1 - 1 year for ABI
          fixing.

* QA update (Rainer)
        + producing a bibsect repository for Windows (Norbert)
        + new bug report page - with search for duplicates [!] ...

* GUADEC update (Michael)

* git-review thoughts (Bjoern)

* gerrit update (Bjoern)
        + bugzilla / auto-commenting integration
                + filter-able changes ? ...
        + --new-changeid discussion

* 3.6 most annoying bugs ...
    + 11 (of 58) older 12/55 11/48 8/42 10/37 11/35 5/26 5/21 3/19 4/15 8/13
         19%            22%   23%   19%  27%   31%   19%  24%  16%  27%  62%
    + https://bugs.freedesktop.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=44446&hide_resolved=1

* 3.5 most annoying bugs ...
    + 75 open (of 253) older 77/253 73/250 72/249 67/244 70/243 73/241 72/238
         30%                   30%    29%   29%    27%    29%    30%    30%
    + https://bugs.freedesktop.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=37361&hide_resolved=1

* 3.5 bugs tagged with 'regression'
    + 177(-3) bugs open of 723(+3) total

    * ~Component   count net *
    + Writer       - 67 (-2)
    + Presentation - 21 (+1)
    + Crashes      - 20 (+1)
    + LibreOffice  - 17 (+1)
    + Spreadsheet  - 16 (-4)
    + Database     - 11 (+1)
    + Drawing      - 11 (+0)
    + Borders      - 9  (+0)
    + Migration    - 7  (+0)
    + Writer / RTF - 7  (+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
    + Migration tracker: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43489

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