minutes of ESC call ...

* Present:
        + Joel, Caolan, Stephan, Andras, Tibby, Michael M, Norbert,
          Michael S, Kohei, Kendy, Fridrich, Bjoern, Cedric, Thorsten

* Completed Action Items
        + gerrit - patch abandonment can only be done by owner or gerrit admin (Bjoern)
                + apparently non-actionable
        + get some more HardHacks (Joel)
        + shrink Android Remote icon & integrate that (Andrzej Hunt)
        + look at fdo#48366 - xlx import failure (Kohei)
        + look at fdo#48692 - writer table corruption (Michael S)
        + look at fdo#49819 - docx import failure (Michael M)

* Pending Action Items
        + [pending] make bytemark windows box do release builds (Fridrich)
        + Petr to decide release-schedule / overlap gap issue
        + change to contract and OSL_TRACE for oob results in OUString::copy (Michael)
        + look at fdo#44278 picture duplication on save (Cedric)
        + look into fdo#54225, fdo#54744 PDF export regressions (Stephan)

* OUString cleanup ongoing
        + no need to use rtl:: prefix anymore for OUString, OString
          OStringToOUString, OUStringToOString

* Release Engineering update (Fridrich)
        + 3.5.7 rc2 ?
                + rc1 will be final, unless someone complains
                  no issues raised => go Tuesday.
                + nominally the last release from this branch.
        + 3.6.2 release status
                + rc2 is out - only one known regression in
                  Windows custom install: bogus GNOME integration
                  option from Linux.
        + Petr back next week.

* UI / design update (Kendy)
        + discussion and mourning for death of impress pop-up actions
                + toolbar will be moved to be nearby
        + conditional dialog management issues - UX input pending ?

* gerrit configuration (Norbert)
        + Tor requested branches that can't be deleted accidentally ?
        + people can continue to use a private repo on freedesktop (Kohei)
                + of course, for those with accounts.
        + branches get synched to freedesktop.
        + configuration tweak to add:
                + private/<username>/branch in gerrit to do that.

* older gerrit patches
AI:     + https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/502/ (Bjoern to review)
AI:     + bug 53673 - Labels broken with mailmerge (Kendy to find a writer volunteer)

* New Layout funkiness (Caolan)
        + re-basing underway, merge later today / tomorrow
        + much prettier dialogs are possible
        + surprisingly little thrash in vcl/ etc.
        + full conversions:
                + remove all the code to load widgets you
                  don't touch afterwards
                + remove all hand-crafted awful layout
                + remove the .src and .hrc files
                        + unless you need unrelated strings
        + https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/WidgetLayout
        + lots of beautiful things about to start.

* conference (Thorsten)
        + in-person ESC meeting 16th October, 17:00 at the venue.

        **      PLEASE REGSISTER BEFORE OCTOBER 8TH     **

        + http://conference.libreoffice.org/@@register-for-the-conference
                + speakers please just enter "No" for have you paid;
                  that is a valid option.
        + if you have a last-minute paper poke Thorsten for
          the waiting list ...

* Easy Hacks (Michael)
        + propose new Topic: TopicFeature
                + just copying on the wiki page, no objections (Bjoern)
        + propose new Difficulty: DifficultyHard
                + are hard easy hacks an oxymoron ? (Bjoern)
                + adding a category is hard work
                + things like iWorks filter integration, or more (Michael)
                + DifficultyAmbitious ? (Stephan)
AI:     + create a new wiki page, based on GSOC page,
          present as the next-step on the Easy Hacks page (Michael)
                + AmbitiousHacks.

* Ensuring on-line help is kept up-to-date (Kendy)
        + possible to update it automatically
                + worried about bad translations slipping through ?
                  might take time before we realise something went wrong.
        + is pootle spamming common ? (Michael)
                + not yet.
AI:     + enable automatic help build / sync. on a cron-job (Kendy)

* QA update (Joel)
        + QA meeting yesterday
                + lots of vacation going on this time of year
                + interest from discuss/user list to help triage
                + 5x new volunteers interested in helping
AI:     + request to dumb-down the back-trace generation page to
          make it more accessible (Michael)
                + http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/BugReport#How_to_get_backtrace_.28on_Linux.29
                + explain difference valgrind -> gdb
                + give a simple example / sample output ?
                + use new --valgrind and --backtrace options
        + QA meet-up next weekend in Essen @ LinuxHotel report back later;
          Thorsten, Florian E, Florian R will be there; German-language:
             http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/DE/QAWochenende2012
        + getting a doodle poll together for a concerted confirm-fest.

* QA / Hard-Hacks

        Fixed Hard Hacks:
      ID      OS      Component - Summary
      --------------------------------------------------------------------
      48366   All     Calc/xlsx    FILEOPEN for particular .xlsx impossible, "General Error"
                + opens fine in master, crashes in libreoffice-3-6
                + Kohei back-ported Muthu's 'fix'
      49819   All     Writer/docx  FILEOPEN error when loading a particular .docx file.
                + fixed by tolerating mis-matching timestamps, and
                  enabling recovery of corrupted docx files (Michael Meeks)
      48692   All     Writer       TABLES: Writer corrupts large tables
                + with thanks to Michael Stahl & Noel Grandin
                + fix is rather involved => 3.7 only.

        Hard Hacks:
      ID      OS      Component - Summary
      --------------------------------------------------------------------
      44278   All     Writer/odt   FILESAVE .docx (MSO2007) as .odt creates duplicated picture
                + already working in this area (Cedric / Miklos)
      51023   All     Impress      drag-and-drop slide always moves slide to first position,
                                   leading to data corruption and sometimes CRASH
                + some volunteer (?)

        New Hard Hacks:
      ID      OS      Component - Summary
      --------------------------------------------------------------------
      47283   All     Writer      undo / change-tracking related crash
AI:             + unclear the connection between undo steps and change-tracking (Michael S)
      46100   All     Calc        crash after deleting a sheet
                + great work from bfoman generating traces (on Windows!)
AI:             + could be undo / size related (Kohei)
      37580   All     Impress     Undo / layout bug wrt. slide with formulae
                + another undo issue, may be related; fix 34585 first.

        Older Hard Hacks:
      ID      OS      Component - Summary
      --------------------------------------------------------------------
      34548   All     Presentation - EDITING: CRASH in action after Undo
AI:             + prototype hack-around from Michael M awaiting feedback (Thorsten)
                + the problem looks hideous.
      33302   Mac     Libreoffice - FILEOPEN/EDITING RTL text: parentheses and
                       brackets "(...) [...]" inverted to ")...( ]...["
                       with some fonts
                + Mac volunteers appreciated.

        + no more hard-hacks for a couple of weeks please.
                + going to move to a wiki page flow instead.

* Open 3.7 MAB / regressions [ there should be none ]:
        + bug 54225 - MAILMERGE e-mail as PDF sends damaged documents
        + bug 54744 - Hybrid PDF export are corrupted
AI:     + bug 55290 - LOdev 3.7 won't install [ on Windows ]. Error 1935 (dtardon)
        + bug 55350 - Letter spacing and ‘expand single word’ do not work now
                + with a 4 day date-range for the regression [!] ...
AI:             + Mac specific - suggested patch, re-review (Thorsten)
        + https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54157

* 3.6 most annoying bugs ...
    + 46 (of 137) older 45/132 44/127 39/119 27/96 26/91 21/80 11/58 12/55 11/48
          34%            34%     35%     33%   28%   29%   26%   19%   22%   23%
    + https://bugs.freedesktop.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=44446&hide_resolved=1

* 3.5 most annoying bugs ...
    + 82 open (of 279) older 83/279 80/270 81/269 73/258 73/257 76/256 75/253
          29%                 30%    30%    30%    26%    28%    30%     30%
    + https://bugs.freedesktop.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=37361&hide_resolved=1

* 3.5 bugs tagged with 'regression'
    + 177(+10) bugs open of 820(+20) total

    * ~Component   count net *
    + Writer       - 75 (+2)
    + Crashes      - 20 (+3)
    + Presentation - 17 (+0)
    + LibreOffice  - 15 (+2)
    + Database     - 14 (+0)
    + Drawing      - 13 (+0)
    + Borders      - 12 (+1)
    + Migration    - 10 (+1)
    + Spreadsheet  - 11 (+3)
    + Writer / RTF - 2  (-1)
    + Basic        - 2  (-1)

    + 
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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