minutes of ESC call ...

* Present:
    + Muthu, Sophie, Eike, Nobert, Bjoern, Miklos, Lionel, Robinson, Caolan,
      Kendy, Michael M, Bjoern, Thorsten, Andras, Cedric, Cloph, Jan-Marek,
      Michael S
 
* Completed Action Items:
    + fix hackfest wiki to prefer rather than mandate room sharing (Bjoern)
    + create a "simple feature / fix" wiki page to extend Easy Hacks (Markus)
      [ please add your own items
        https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/CoreHacks ]
    + GSOC mentors - please fill out these two guys:
       ** NB. Students are not mentors and should wait until the 16th **
       [ http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/profile/register/org_member/google/gsoc2015
         http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/connection/pick/google/gsoc2015 ]
 
* Pending Action Items:
    + please file an Easy-Hack this week: just a bug with whiteboard: (All)
            "EasyHack DifficultyBeginner SkillCpp TopicCleanup"
        + thanks to: Bjoern & Caolan
                + http://bit.ly/1KR4HWX
    + make sure to create a new openid if you are using the Google openID (all)
        [ tried it with Fedora; ~five minutes, easy enough.
          initial log-in says:
              "This is the Federated Open Authentication provider homepage.
              "ERROR: Transaction missing You will be redirected to this
               application whenever another application requires you
               to authenticate." (Michael)
                   + but it works.
          oddly had 30x duplicate 'Google Account' entries in gerrit 'Identies' (Michael)
               + noticed, no idea why (Norbert)
        ]
 
* GSoC (Cedric/Thorsten)
    + student application period: March 16 to March 27th
    + unknown mentor requests ... sorted them out.
        + if you've been rejected in error poke Cedric.
        + students should not apply as mentors - it is not published yet.
    + anyone contacted by students ?
    + Wiki page there; we still have time to add tasks here:
        https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Gsoc/Ideas
        + more ideas much appreciated
 
* Release Engineering update (Cloph)
    + 4.4.2 RC1 status
        + built, made available as early-testing;
          pushing to mirrors after the call for general announce
    + 4.4.2 RC2 week after next (after the hack-fest)
    + 4.3.7 RC1 April 7th or so
        + the last of the 4.3.x series.
        + last 10.6 32bit build for Mac (Norbert)
    + 4.5.0 / 5.0.0? - 1st Alpha release - April 13th
    + Android & iOS Remote
        + patches reviewed for the Android remote
        + new build to up-load -> beta channel today
        + also includes new translations.
 
* Crashtest update (Markus)
    + import side is looking good (Miklos)
        + export more involved still.
    + bug in the script - overwriting the last line of importCrash.log
        + fixed by cloph, was writing and reading at the same time.
 
* LibreOffice Developer / Job adverts on dev-list ? (Michael)
    + thoughts / rules / feedback on this appreciated;
        + can't really be prevented (Norbert)
    + CIB & Collabora are hiring (at least) etc.
    + how best to do that ? (Michael)
        + infrequent posts eg.
        + not more regular than 1x per month (Bjoern)
    + no issues with it occasionally (Thorsten)
    + as long as they behave (Eike)
    + plain-text, direct requests only - no recruiters.
    + LibreOffice jobs only (Eike)
 
* 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.
            + 8 people registered so far ...
            + hopefully again get the opportunity to speak to students (Thorsten)
                 + great to have some sexy lightning talks,
                   re-use FOSDEM content eg. ?
                 + simple intros on how to build / find easy hacks (Bjoern)
    + 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
 
* UX Update (Kendy)
    + lots of people in the call
    + 1x guy - Andreas: did ~1000 Breeze icons for LibreOffice
        + awesome work; nearly 80% complete & looking great.
        + web-page: http://arsenalrace.at/analytics/ak/libreoffice/
        + approved commit access
    + to shrink calls; have 1x additional Friday call.
        + dedicated to a theme.
        + last Friday -> designing of the TOC dialog.
            + more understandable for users.
        + this Friday -> CMIS into the start center & setup
            + so we have the GSOC mockup.
 
* l10n Update (Sophie)
    + not much that's new this week.
 
* Developer Certification (Stephan/Bjoern/Kendy)
    + still need to run the script.
 
* Jenkins update (Norbert)
    + jenkins: http://ci.libreoffice.org/view/Dashboard/
    + recovering smoothly.
    + lcov: http://lcov.libreoffice.org/
       + not getting refreshed yet; working on that.
 
* Commit access
    + Andreas - just icons for now.
 
* Unable to open a doc. on network share (Michael S)
    + windows network file-system regression:
        https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=72337
           + broken glib issues tangled into the same bug (Bjoern)
    + horrible sharing options problem on Windows etc.
    + ideally have some sort of test-lab with 5x different OS' with
      3x protocols between each to test stuff.
    + see the same wrt. network sharing on Ubuntu (Bjoern)
    + any of this sort of bug ends up with random other OS duplicates
      etc. that cannot be the same bug.
    + have we poked the (now ex.) Cap Gemini guy whose patch this is ?
AI:     + CC Mathiew - and revert in a week if no response (Michael S)
 
* QA (Robinson)
    + UNCONFIRMED at 309
    + needAdvice at 12
    + if people ask for help with tough bugs - we have a number of
      hard to reproduce >90days old bugs.
         + help appreciated.
         + some are just rather hard to reproduce.
 
* QA stats:
  + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/page.cgi?id=weekly-bug-summary.html
    +127    -148        (-21 overall)
    many thanks to the top bug squashers:
        Beluga                28
        Jean-Baptiste Faure   19
        Adolfo Jayme          12
        Julien Nabet          10
        V Stuart Foote         6
        raal                   6
        Joel Madero            5
        Alex Thurgood          4
        Lionel Elie Mamane     4
        Tomaz Vajngerl         3
        Robinson Tryon (qubit) 3
        Andras Timar           3
        Eike Rathke            3
        Katarina Behrens       2
        Björn Michaelsen       2
 
* Open 4.5 MAB
  + 1/3 0/2 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
  + 15/49 14/48 13/47 12/46 16/44 16/43 16/40 14/38 11/34 6/26 6/24 7/24
     30%   29%   27%   26%   36%   37%   40%   36%   32%  23%  25%  29%
  + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=79641&hide_resolved=1
 
* Open 4.3 MAB
  + 79/160 77/158 77/158 76/158 77/156 77/155 78/155 86/154 84/152 86/151
     49%    48%    48%    48%    49%    49%    50%    55%    55%    56%
  + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=75025&hide_resolved=1
 
* Bibisected bugs open: whiteboard 'bibisected'
  + 259/701 264/699 267/698 261/687 252/662 241/650 228/627 226/616 229/601
    + http://bit.ly/VQfF3Q
 
* all bugs tagged with 'regression'
    + 469(-7) bugs open of 3500(+8) total
        * ~Component   count net *
                Writer - 162 (+0)
                  Calc -  95 (-2)
               Impress -  31 (-2)
               Crashes -  27 (+1)
           Libreoffice -  26 (+0)
              Graphics -  25 (+0)
                    UI -  23 (+2)
                  Draw -  18 (+0)
               Borders -  16 (+0)
                  Base -  15 (-3)
               Filters -  13 (+0)
                 Chart -   9 (+0)
           Print / PDF -   9 (+0)
               Formula -   4 (+1)
             framework -   3 (+0)
                 BASIC -   3 (+0)
            Extensions -   3 (+0)
          Installation -   2 (+0)
                   sdk -   1 (+0)
            Linguistic -   1 (-1)
        Impress Remote -   0 (+0)

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