minutes of (last weeks) ESC call ...

Joel kindly pointed out I forgot to send these: sorry !

* Present:
        + Joel, Thorsten, Lionel, Andras, David, Norbert, Kendy,
          Ahmad, Astron, Bjoern, Eike, Caolan, Stephan, Petr,
          Cedric

* Completed Action Items
        + publish results of automated load testing (Markus)
        + find out an ideal git rename limit number (Bjoern)
        + do RTL_LOGFILE changes (Bjoern)
                [ plus created an easy-hack ]
        + helping out with code-pointers for UI bugs (Kendy)
                [ toolbar issues in GSOC wiki page, and ref'd in bugs ]
        + Personas - update / de-couple built-in URL (Kendy)
                [ done - expected for 4.0.3, new URL there ]
                [ text 'Persona' left in 4.0.x for l10n text
                  updated in master, GSOC task to move to
                  API and browse in LibO ]
        + update mac SDK configure check on master (Norbert)
        + Lionel's UNO / forms interfaces: second view on what's up
                [ uses a different model, so confusing, but no change ]
        + Lionel's list-box change:
                [ hesitated a lot, but interaction with Validator
                  interface makes this ]
AI:             + double check this change (Eike)
        + mass-move & tweak of include paths (Bjoern)
                [ looks beautiful in master, two minor glitches
                  15mins late executing, and broke cross-compiling,
                  otherwise it went smoothly - thanks to all
                  for help ! ]
                [ Windows builds take between 1 or 2 hours - there
                  are two of them ]
        + on-line update 3.6.x -> 3.6.6 patch (Michael)
                [ should now be nearly automated, needs just the new
                  commit id adding ]

* Pending Action Items
        + look at gradient / clipart issues (Michael)
        + look into Windows gallery builds (Michael)
        + need design for copying styles between templates (Astron/UX)
                + either in that dialog or a new dialog
                + also issue with only editing templates that are in the mgr
        + feedback on stepped-lines dialog (Astron)
        + buy Windows build hardware / hosting (Norbert)
                + [ ongoing problems ]
        + add a suggestion to do a single bug triage
          to the GSOC requirements (Fridrich)
        + find a good public? test / webdav server for QA (Thorsten)

* QA update (Joel)
        + trying to double-up on each of the major components eg.
          the Bugzilla Submission Assistant (BSA)
                + questing for a website person to help-out with that
AI:     + working on analysing minor release bugs
        + adding a new tag 'expert_needed' - needs a developer to triage
          them; QA volunteers can't do it themselves: odd setups etc.
        + 147 unconfirmed vs. 4.0, help appreciated with triage
                + bugs not going down or up - hovering around 150
                http://tinyurl.com/crxq9od (cf. topic in #libreoffice-qa)
        + https://bugs.freedesktop.org/page.cgi?id=weekly-bug-summary.html
                + more bugs closed than opened ...
                        +151 -153
        + flip-side of better triage is regression spike
                + want to triage better / get better data / quality
                  of regressions
        + bibisect:
                + plenty of bandwidth available to add 'bibsectrequest'
                  to keywords for developers
                + pushed another repo - of released / tagged versions,
                  most useful for minor releases.
        + seems to be a serious Win32 crasher bug:
                + https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63767

* Release Engineering update (Petr)
        + 3.6.7 schedule - deadline is June 24th for rc1
        + 4.0.3 rc2 deadline - April 29th
                + next Monday !
        + 4.1 - feature-freeze: three weeks out: May 20th
                + week on Monday - do an Alpha 0 of 4.1
                + get build / packaging testing / etc.

* Update on calc foo (Markus)
        + discussion to get rid of performance hobbling inherited
          number format issue.
                + still resolved to get rid of it.
                + Markus to work on it in a bit.

* MySQL connector
        + Fernand Vanrie - funding a re-compile for 4.0 and ->
          extension site (many thanks)
                + Work In Progress
                + will need another re-compile for 4.1 so we need to
                  use the 'maxversion' 4.0.100 eg. dependency for it
                + new-re-compile due to ns datetime change.

* remove lo suffix from non-ure libraries (Bjoern)
        + https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63154#c6
        + shortening the names can lead to DLL naming conflicts, hence 'lo'
AI:     + back-track and leave the existing macro to avoid issues (Michael)

* UX input (Astron)
        + icon theme faenza issues, already have the ability to override it
        + should we make it easy for extensions to install these icons (Michael)
                + no reason why we couldn't do that
        + flat icons on github / these new icons (Bjoern)
AI:     + encourage these guys to work on new flat icon project (Astron/Bjoern)

* GSOC update (Cedric)
        + All mentors are now registered in Google Melange
        + already had a few (good) applications (since Monday)
        + students have until May 3rd (eight days) to file
        + then we go through a ranking process - to find best students
        + May 27th - they'll know.
        + some annoyances from being badgered ? => send to Cedric.
        + hassling lots of contributors vaguely about your application
          may well count against you.

* Certification Program (Stephan/Kendy/Bjoern)

* Open 4.1 MAB / regressions
        + 3 (of 14) older 2/13 2/11 4/10 5/10 5/10 4/8 4/8 2/5 1/2 3/3
        + https://bugs.freedesktop.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=60270&hide_resolved=1

* Open 4.0 MAB / regressions
        + 24 (of 122) older 22/118 19/115 18/112 17/111 19/109 19/106 17/105
             20%             19%    17%    16%    15%    18%    18%    16%
        + https://bugs.freedesktop.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=54157&hide_resolved=1

* 3.6 most annoying bugs ...
        + 75 (of 225) older 75/225 75/223 73/218 74/216 78/217 77/215 77/214
             33%             33%    34%    33%    34%    36%    36%    36%
        + https://bugs.freedesktop.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=44446&hide_resolved=1

* Bibisected bugs open: whiteboard 'bibsected'
        + 30 (of 90) older 28/88 26/85 24/83 27/83 25/78 29/78 32/79 27/72
        + re-built the query to avoid pre bibisected mess
                http://bit.ly/VQfF3Q

* all bugs tagged with 'regression'
        + 314(+6) bugs open of 1479(+15) total

        * ~Component   count net *
        + Writer       - 104 (+3)
        + Spreadsheet  -  34 (+3)
        + Presentation -  31 (+0)
        + LibreOffice  -  28 (+1)
        + Database     -  24 (+1)
        + Crashes      -  22 (+3)
        + Drawing      -  20 (+0)
        + Borders      -  16 (+0)
        + Migration    -   3 (+0)
        + Basic        -   3 (-1)

        + 
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=regression%2C%20&keywords_type=allwords&resolution=---&query_format=advanced&product=LibreOffice&list_id=36764
        + Migration: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=43489&hide_resolved=1

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