minutes of ESC call ...

* Present:
     + Jan-Marek, Sophie, Muthu, Kendy, Stephan, Bjoern, Michael M,
       Eike, Miklos, Norbert, Caolan, Timar, Robinson, Thorsten
 
* Completed Action Items:
    + review / amend GSOC ideas page (All)
        + https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/GSoC/Ideas
    + count people who have migrated from the fdo (updated their accounts) (Robinson)
        + http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Libreoffice-qa-Bugzilla-User-Stats-td4139920.html
            [ lots of people creating new accounts regularly
              1300 people active in the last month just for LibreOffice ]
 
* Pending Action Items:
    + remove the OmegaT project from Gerrit, they moved it to GitHub (Norbert)
    + please file an Easy-Hack this week: just a bug with whiteboard: (All)
            "EasyHack DifficultyBeginner SkillCpp TopicCleanup"
        + thanks to:
            + Stephan, Lionel, Laszlo, Tor, Markus, hc.stoellinger, Noel
        + http://bit.ly/1Dd4y8b
    + look into setting up OpenID proxy after 4.4.0 release (Cloph)
 
* Release Engineering update (Cloph)
    + 4.3.6 release
        + delayed from yesterday by infra problems; postponed to tomorrow
    + 4.4.1 RC2 status
        + will be tagged this evening or tomorrow afternoon.
        + 7x patches currently in gerrit for the branch.
            + many from Caolan - lots with +1.
              
https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/q/status:open+project:core+branch:libreoffice-4-4-1,n,z
    + 4.3.7 scheduled for end of April
    + Android & iOS Remote
        + patches in gerrit status ?
        + need to get in contact with the submitter; will take care of them
 
* Infrastructure interim story (Cloph)
    + 1x host had network problems - dropping out,
    + 1x host hard-reboot
    + currently dropping oVirt setup
    + website running on a separate machine
    + migrating VM's from oVirt -> standalone systems.
    + avoiding gluster too for now.
    + re-install the host with new OS without killing VM's
 
* GSoC (Thorsten)
    + Wiki page still time - add tasks here:
        https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Gsoc/Ideas
        + more ideas much appreciated.
    + awaiting Google's response.
    + gtk3 bits / gesture pieces - student interest (Caolan)
    + interest from Haiku project on co-mentoring a port
 
* Crashtest update (Markus)
    + VM stability ?
        + VM currently shut down
            + infra problems.
    + send out Asan report before that
    + bug in the script - overwriting the last line of importCrash.log status ?
        + no change.
 
* Hackfests (Bjoern)
    + Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
            + happy to have us back
            + suggested March 19th, 20th: Thur / Fri.
            + happens during GSOC application phase.
            Date is confirmed, sign up & book travel!
            https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Hackfest/GranCanaria2015
            + Bjoern won't be there, but will help organize.
                 + if you are going, please add your name to the wiki!
                 + be good to pick a hotel; if people have suggestions.
    + Cambridge, UK - May 2015 - contact (Michael)
            + Dates of 21st -> 23rd May confirmed Thur / Fri / Sat.
            + Cambridge Beer Festival overlap / Punting Excursion planned etc.
              https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Hackfest/Cambridge2015
            + Kitchen, but no rings for Pasta:
                 + Kettle / Dish-Washer Spaghetti cooking ?
AI: + writing blog post to promote hack-fests (Bjoern)
 
* UX Update (Kendy)
    + finalized proposals for change-tracking side-bar
        + looks beautiful & useable.
        + we just need to implement it
        + blog to appear about it soon.
 
* l10n Update (Sophie)
    + not much going on;
        + migration to a new pootle version planned but blocked on infra.
    + any new languages ? (Kendy)
        + some but of course, early days - and a cliff of strings to translate.
 
* Developer Certification (Stephan/Bjoern/Kendy)
    + would like to re-run the script to chase the clueful (Kendy)
 
* Jenkins update (Norbert)
    + http://ci.libreoffice.org/view/Dashboard/
       + pending new hardware, trying to move Windows VMs -> Infra.
 
* Renaming Bugzilla components to match LibreOffice names (Robinson)
    + please update & test contrib/dev-tools.git/scripts/esc-bug-stats.pl
      when you change these (Michael)
 
* Redmine / Easy Hacks (Bjoern)
    + there were easy-hacks in BZ that have been migrated -> RedMine
        + as they were infrastructure related.
        => need some way to make infrastructure easy-hacks show up
           in the TDF wiki page somehow
        + https://redmine.documentfoundation.org/issues/1123
 
* New committers:
    + Adolfo - doing great work (Thorsten, Kendy)
 
* QA (Robinson)
    + UNCONFIRMED slightly up at 315
           https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/reports.cgi?product=LibreOffice&datasets=UNCONFIRMED
    + new tools planned
        + renewed interest in better bibisect coverage
        + all going well.
    + Q. regarding Android platform
        + what is in-scope for bug reporting ?
            + do we want to see lots of bugs ?
            + general end-user bugs ? or just QA ? or ...
        + currently Kendy has a big list of document crashers (Miklos)
            + most are fixed.
            + if we still get viewer crashes - are interested.
        + crash reporter data is not so useful (Kendy)
            + doesn't contain the document.
            + most crashes are OOM, or a missing component.
            + having writer & impress documents known to crash Android
              in BZ are useful, calc still having issues.
        + good to get people involved via bugs (Norbert)
            + great if people can log-in and report them etc.
        + now have the H/W to triage & close those (Robinson)
            + if list of 2 to 10x MAB's for Android - that's interesting (Kendy)
    + Specific bug needing input:
        +  https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=76227
          Issue with possible dependency on help package 
            + need to poke Cloph.
 
* QA stats:
  + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/page.cgi?id=weekly-bug-summary.html
    +133    -114        (+19 overall)
    many thanks to the top bug squashers:
        Caolán McNamara       16
        raal                  12
        Matthew Francis       10
        Jean-Baptiste Faure    9
        Eike Rathke            7
        Adolfo Jayme           7
        V Stuart Foote         5
        Michael Stahl          4
        Markus Mohrhard        4
        Joel Madero            4
        m.a.riosv              4
        Cor Nouws              3
        David Tardon           2
        Timur                  2
        Jürgen Mähnß           2
 
* Open 4.5 MAB
  + 0/2 1/2 0/1 0/1 0/1 0/1
  + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=86696&hide_resolved=1
 
* Open 4.4 MAB
  + 12/46 16/44 16/43 16/40 14/38 11/34 6/26 6/24 7/24 7/22 5/19 4/18 3/17
     26%   36%   37%   40%   36%   32%  23%  25%  29%  31%  26%  22%  17%
  + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=79641&hide_resolved=1
 
* Open 4.3 MAB
  + 76/158 77/156 77/155 78/155 86/154 84/152 86/151 86/148 84/146 58/117 33/90
     48%    49%    49%    50%    55%    55%    56%    58%    57%    49%    36%
  + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=75025&hide_resolved=1
 
* Bibisected bugs open: whiteboard 'bibisected'
  + 261/687 252/662 241/650 228/627 226/616 229/601 214/564 208/532 208/526
    + http://bit.ly/VQfF3Q
 
* all bugs tagged with 'regression'
    + 445(-15) bugs open of 3445(+12) total
        * ~Component   count net *
                Writer - 145 (-4)
                  Calc -  95 (-4)
               Impress -  33 (-1)
              Graphics -  25 (+0)
           Libreoffice -  24 (+3)
               Crashes -  21 (+1)
                    UI -  18 (+0)
                  Draw -  18 (+0)
               Borders -  16 (+0)
                  Base -  15 (+0)
               Filters -  12 (+1)
                 Chart -   9 (-2)
           Print / PDF -   9 (-1)
                 BASIC -   4 (-1)
               Formula -   3 (-1)
            Extensions -   3 (+0)
          Installation -   2 (+0)
             framework -   2 (-1)
            Linguistic -   1 (+1)
                   sdk -   1 (+0)
        Impress Remote -   0 (+0)

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