minutes of ESC call ...

* Present:
    + Bjoern, Andras, Jan-Marek G, Michael M, Christian, Stephan, Muthu,
      David, Eike, Kohei, Michael S, Markus, Miklos, Robinson, Cedric, Lionel
 
* Completed Action Items:
    + contact Michael / the list when students show up (Jan Marek)
       [ students mostly coming to Bern for the conference ]
    + fix the 4.4 feature page (Norbert):
       + https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/4.4#Mac_OS_X
    + speak at the conference on testing (Umesh)
    + trained in crash-test / VM maintenance for September/October (Miklos)
 
* Pending Action Items:
    + ask UX advise wrt. wrench icons (revert or not ?) (Astron)
    + blog about the sad realities of web plugins (Bjoern)
    + open-source newer Synezip tests (Umesh)
    + get work / screenshots into the 4.4 feature list (Mentors ask students)
    + reach out / plan wrt. FOSDEM dev-rooms (Thorsten)
 
* Release Engineering update (Christian)
    + 4.2.6-security release announced
    + 4.3.1 released early too
        + build issues with the VM, requiring re-starts.
    + rest of release schedule un-affected
    + 4.3.2 - branch off at the conference.
    + 4.2.7 - due in week 40 - 29th Sept freeze.
        + Potential for new incremental releases sooner.
    + Android Remote
        + pushed changes to the build-system to use gradle
        + in future, will be created using Android Studio.
        + now rather easier to hack on.
 
* emergency release numbering policy (Bjoern/Eike)
    + if we always bump micro (major.minor.micro.nano)
      then we have problems with bugzilla "fixed in <next>"
      comments, not just attribute (Eike)
    + potentially update nano - as in 4.2.6.3 - no text changes
    + for this OOB release, recommend people patch don't ver. bump
      themselves if necessary.
 
* GSOC Update (Cedric)
    + all set.
    + Remaining things to do:
    + Students should send a small blog / links etc. of what they
      did to Cedric so he can write a summary post.
        + Google re-blogs this often, so - prettiness is mandatory.
    + if help needed wrt. tar-ball creation; it's easy see here:
        + https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/GSoc#Code_submission
 
* Crashtest update (Markus)
    + run out of disk space -- new build will take 5 days
        + freed up 15Gb.
        + Miklos will take over in September/October
    + http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/crashtest/66c6d1ef204f3507e7663a1b8b1be05b9ec71092/
        + new results look quite good, fixing appreciated.
 
* Munich update (Jan-Marek)
    + student interns arrived
    + managed to get them to the conference; 9x people there
    + patches in gerrit for review already
    + pleased with css::util vs. utl and uno-tools changes (Miklos)
    + #libreoffice-lhm has people there.
    + still reviewing mail-merge patches (Bjoern)
    + https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/q/owner:%22Jan-Marek+Glogowski%22+status:open,n,z
 
* Certification Committee (Stephan/Bjoern/Kendy)
    + waiting until ~September after the conf.
 
* Conference preparation (Moggi)
    + Agenda for face-to-face - 5pm ESC meeting.
       + UX work
       + QA / bug trends review
       + looming design disasters
 
* Hackfests (Bjoern)
    + Seattle 'Libre-Fest' (Robinson)
        https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Events/2014/Seattle_LibreFest
        + October 26, 2014
        + Bug-triaging/Intro-to-community event
        + Following SeaGL conference
    + Munich hack-fest (Jan-Marek):
        http://www.it-muenchen-blog.de/2014/07/bug-squashing-party-2014/
        + will have a BSP come-together; if someone says they're coming
          just show up etc.
           + November 21st-23rd, 2014
           https://wiki.debian.org/BSP/2014/11/de/Munich
           + we should drop by with 2 or 3 developers, if possible
    + Toulouse Hackfest ...
        + Confirmed for Nov. 15-16th
        + more details: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Hackfest/Toulouse2014
    + Be great to have -really- easy easy hacks for devs (Bjoern)
 
* QA (Robinson)
    + UNCONFIRMED count up a bit last week,
    + some interesting new regressions
    + Multimedia on OS/X - changed
       + OS/X moved from quicktime to AVFoundation
       + a number of users with embedded multimedia not working.
       + would love a concise bug report (Michael)
    + Robinson's Mac arrived for triage
    + Speech Editor Siri of MAC OS 10.9.4 does not work with Libreoffice 4.3.0.3
      https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=81759
    + lower case greek alphabet missing in localized Math symbol table
      https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=80650
    + S.Storti filing a number of writer / RTF issues recently. (Miklos)
 
* UX Update (Astron / Mirek)
 
* QA stats:
  + https://bugs.freedesktop.org/page.cgi?id=weekly-bug-summary.html
    +153    -98        (+55 overall)
    many thanks to the top bug squashers:
        Maxim Monastirsky    9
        Urmas                7
        Eike Rathke          7
        Adolfo Jayme         6
        Julien Nabet         6
        foss                 6
        Guo Jinxian          5
        sophie               5
        Jean-Baptiste Faure  5
        Jay Philips          4
        Caolán McNamara      4
        Thomas Arnhold       4
 
* Open 4.4 MAB
  + 3/8 3/8 4/8 4/8 3/7 3/7 2/5 1/2 1/1
  + https://bugs.freedesktop.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=79641&hide_resolved=1
 
* Open 4.3 MAB
  + 12/54 13/53 14/52 14/50 11/47 14/47 14/45 19/43 10/32 6/27 5/24 5/22 3/20
     22%   24%   26%   28%   23%   29%   33%   44%   31%   22%  20%  22%  15%
  + https://bugs.freedesktop.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=75025&hide_resolved=1
 
* Open 4.2 MAB
  + 86/252 82/245 83/244 83/243 84/236 85/235 82/229 81/222 76/215 74/212
     34%    33%    34%    34%     35%    36%    35%    36%    35%    34%
  + https://bugs.freedesktop.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=65675&hide_resolved=1
 
* Bibisected bugs open: whiteboard 'bibsected'
  + 142/375 141/374 136/361 127/349 119/331 102/308 92/296 84/283
    + http://bit.ly/VQfF3Q
 
* all bugs tagged with 'regression'
    + 446(+11) bugs open of 2990(+15) total
        * ~Component   count net *
                Writer - 133 (+10)
           Spreadsheet -  79 (+1)
               Crashes -  37 (+2)
          Presentation -  28 (+0)
           Libreoffice -  26 (+0)
                    UI -  24 (+0)
              Database -  23 (-1)
              Graphics -  23 (+0)
               Borders -  20 (+1)
               Filters -  15 (+0)
               Drawing -  15 (+1)
           Print / PDF -  12 (+0)
                 Chart -   8 (+0)
                 BASIC -   5 (+1)
               Formula -   5 (+0)
            Extensions -   5 (+0)
            Linguistic -   4 (+1)
          Installation -   4 (+0)
             framework -   1 (-1)
                   sdk -   0 (+0)
        Impress Remote -   0 (+?)
  + http://bit.ly/15mM2Yn - for devs ( no NEEDINFO / UNCONFIRMED )

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