minutes of ESC call ...

* Present:
    + Lionel, Stephan, Sophie, Stefan W., Andras, Kendy, Bjoern, Miklos, Caolán,
      Olivier, Christian, Michael M, Bubli, Michael S, David, Armin, NoelG
 
* Completed Action Items:
    + provide Italo some data:
        "thanks to 10,000 UI survey respondants in last year" (thanks to Heiko)
 
* Pending Action Items:
    + accept invite for GSOC mentoring (Muthu)
    + switch lcov profile to system-nss (Norbert)
    + investigate clobberring glew instead of lots of #ifdefs: (Marco, Oliver)
    + add UI guys as reviewers fo rgerrit UI patches (JanI)
        [ 7 open right now, will update them shortly. ]
    + tweak UI and get LiveConnect API key / build case for board (Christian)
    + ask QA to re-test http://tdf.io/mmregressions (Robinson)
         [ testing underway ]
    + attempt to re-build a recent gstreamer 1.0 / core spec file
      on our CentOS6 base (tdf#94508) (Christian)
    + script XML / l10n string translation changes (Christian)
         [ still pending => ignore translating it for now (Cloph) ].
 
* Release Engineering update (Christian)
    + 5.0.6 RC1 - due April 12th.
        + last 5.0.x release (Bjoern)
    + 5.1.2.2 status
        + announced as final today.
    + 5.1.3 RC1 - due April 18th
    + 5.2 Alpha - ~end of week of April 18th
        + a milestone for early testing.
    + Android & iOS Remote
        + new Material-design for android / theming pending review.
        + will update mavern bits later today.
 
* Documentation (Olivier)
    + 2 Patches in Helpcontent
    + New chapter of Getting Started 5.1 : Styles & Templates
    + Wiki page comparing alternatives to Helpcontent for ESC
      https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Help_content_technologies
        + no need to deep-dive here (Kendy)
           + conclusion: XHP still a reasonable source for now.
           + no huge need to move away from it - if it's more editable.
           + hope to improve it with the tender for shared on-line editing of it.
 
* l10n (Sophie)
    + quiet, WIP.
 
* GSoC 2016 (JanI)
    + We currently have 17 proposals selected and 23 mentors
        + We need to submit a number no later than April 11th
    + All proposals with a mentor are star marked, and mailed to all mentors with questions.
        + concern wrt. mentor/student ratio in some cases.
    + go to https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/dashboard/proposals/shared/
    + tool can no longer do ranking; what's the plan (Michael)
        + we will want an ordering - done in a spreadsheet
          or somesuch for slot requests.
AI:     + copy-paste proposals into a spreadsheet (Michael)
 
* UX Update (Kendy)
    + lots of GSOC discussion
        + planning a good way of co-mentoring with developers.
            + hope is that day-to-day poking, testing is ~non-technical.
            + worked well last year with Jay (Bubli)
            + good to get UX people closer to the code (Michael)
    + draw survey agreed & published
    + sidebar survey results in, prepping for publication.
    + talked wrt. notebookbar & single toolbar mode.
        + useful to use the .ui file as well.
 
* Crashtest update (Caolan)
    + 9 import failures, 1 export failures, 7 coverity
        + prolly all fixed; couldn't reproduce manually.
    + new crashtest pending
    + various people squashing warnings while Caolan away.
    + fuzzing stuff run for 2x weeks while away
        + more fixes coming.
    + hunspell update coming too.
 
* Gran Canaria hack-fest update (Thorsten/JanI etc.)
    + https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Events/LibreOffice_Espania_Summit
       + sadly no-one on the call.
       + having talks according to Thorsten's twitter (Bjoern)
         https://twitter.com/thooorsten/status/718076286816677888
 
* Hackfests (Bjoern)
    + next venues / suggestions
        + Ankara, Turkey
            + April 30th - May 1st.
            + https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Hackfest/Ankara2016
            + plan do an overview talk on Friday (Michael)
        + Germany, Munich, LiMux; End of May 2016 (Jan-Marek)
            + Orga: https://wiki.debian.org/BSP/2016/05/de/Munich
            + 27-29 May (parallel to the Debian Sun Camp)
 
* Mentoring Update (JanI)
    + gerrit: 146 open patches of which 94 can be merged if no open comments
             74 from new contributors of which 39 can be merged if no open comments
    + had a busy GSoC week helping mentors
    + Have a backlog of mentoring work
    + started discussion on how to secure new contributors can successfully build master
 
* Commit Access
 
* Developer Certification (Stephan/Bjoern/Kendy/Thorsten)
    + after GSOC storm.
 
* Jenkins / CI update (Norbert)
    from:Thu Mar 31 14:13:43 2016
    master linux rel  jobs: 171 ok: 166 ko:   4 fail ratio:  2.34 % break:   4 broken duration: 
0.65%
    master linux dbg  jobs: 143 ok: 129 ko:  14 fail ratio:  9.79 % break:  11 broken duration: 
6.07%
    master mac rel    jobs: 160 ok: 156 ko:   4 fail ratio:  2.50 % break:   2 broken duration: 
0.75%
    master mac dbg    jobs: 159 ok: 159 ko:   0 fail ratio:  0.00 % break:   0 broken duration: 
0.00%
    master win rel    jobs: 116 ok: 112 ko:   4 fail ratio:  3.45 % break:   2 broken duration: 
0.67%
    master win dbg    jobs: 121 ok: 115 ko:   6 fail ratio:  4.96 % break:   4 broken duration: 
2.17%
    master win64 dbg  jobs: 119 ok: 112 ko:   6 fail ratio:  5.04 % break:   3 broken duration: 
2.17%
    lo-5.0 mac        jobs:   7 ok:   7 ko:   0 fail ratio:  0.00 % break:   0 broken duration: 
0.00%
    lo-5.1 mac        jobs:  15 ok:  15 ko:   0 fail ratio:  0.00 % break:   0 broken duration: 
0.00%
    supposed to break:
    gerrit win rel    jobs: 229 ok: 209 ko:  19 fail ratio: 8.30%
    gerrit lin rel    jobs: 229 ok: 196 ko:  32 fail ratio:13.97%
    gerrit mac rel    jobs: 229 ok: 209 ko:  20 fail ratio: 8.73%
    gerrit all        jobs: 229 ok: 178 ko:  49 fail ratio:21.40%
       + numbers starting to look rather good.
 
* Easy Hacks (JanI)
    + easyHacks: total 295: 267 waiting for contributor, 24 Assigned to contributors, 4 need info
                 needsDevEval 425 needs to be evaluated
                 cleanup: 229 has more than 4 comments, 228 needs to be reviewed
     + new last 8 days:
          https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=98969 mentor:bjoern.michaelsen -> 
"Find forgotten closed bugs"
    + create your own by updating Keywords to eg.
            "easyHack, difficultyBeginner, skillCpp, topicCleanup"
            + please remember, a code pointer is mandatory, and typically
              a look from an experienced developer
    + create new easy hacks from these proposed ones
      (or remove the Keyword "needsDevEval" if not feasible):
      https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=needsDevEval
 
* QA update (Bjoern)
    + UNCONFIRMED: 709
        + enhancements: 62
        + in ux-advise: 34
    + needAdvice at 29
 
    + Most Pressing Bugs:
        http://tdf.io/mostressingbugs
        + (FIXED) tdf#98989 - tables not rendering (Windows regression)
            [ Thanks to Mstahl! - Windows 3 Bitmap font related ]
        + tdf#89034 - OS X: Text not being justified in Persian and other RTL languages
            + Persists as Common issue -> lots of duplicates; many related layout bugs
        + Mail merge regressions (Bjoern)
            + Cor did some testing of the new code
            + http://tdf.io/mmregressions (11 open; 9 open last meeting)
        + Made some progress on writer regressions (Bjoern)
            + could close some - have commits, but not closed.
 
    + April 22nd - 1st 5.2 bug-hunting session planned.
 
* QA stats
 
  + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/page.cgi?id=weekly-bug-summary.html
    +137    -81        (+56 overall)
    many thanks to the top bug squashers:
        raal                   7
        Miklos Vajna           7
        Maxim Monastirsky      5
        Cor Nouws              5
        Adolfo Jayme           5
        Timur                  5
        Jean-Baptiste Faure    5
        Buovjaga               4
        m.a.riosv              3
        Björn Michaelsen       3
        David Tardon           2
        swati                  2
        Matus Uzak             2
        Katarina Behrens       2
        Eike Rathke            2
 
* Highest-Priority bugs (aka "MABs"):
        5.2: 3/8    - 37%   +0
        5.1: 2/26   -  7%   +0
        5.0: 7/52   - 13%   +0
        4.4: 10/72  - 13%   +1
        4.3: 5/68   -  7%   +0
        4.2: 10/133 -  7%   +0
        4.1: 4/79   -  5%   +0
        4.0: 9/81   - 11%   +0
        old: 38/249 - 15%   +0
 
* Bibisected bugs open: whiteboard 'bibisected'
  + 388/1313 391/1307 399/1305 404/1297 406/1292 412/1284 408/1277
    + http://tdf.io/bibibugs
 
* all bugs tagged with 'regression'
        + 766(+3) bugs open of 4818(+16) total 25(-1) high prio.
 
        * ~Component   count net * high severity regressions
                  Calc -  9 (-1)
                Writer -  9 (+1)
           LibreOffice -  3 (-1)
                  Base -  2 (+0)
            Extensions -  1 (+0)
               Impress -  1 (+0)
                + http://tdf.io/regressionscritical
 
        * ~Component   count net * all regressions
                Writer - 241 (+6)
                  Calc - 156 (-3)
           LibreOffice -  53 (-3)
               Crashes -  47 (-3)
               Impress -  47 (+1)
                    UI -  41 (-1)
        graphics stack -  35 (-1)
                  Base -  35 (+1)
               Borders -  31 (-1)
                  Draw -  27 (+0)
   filters and storage -  22 (+0)
                 BASIC -  15 (+0)
                 Chart -  14 (+0)
Printing and PDF export-  10 (-1)
        Formula Editor -   6 (-1)
            Linguistic -   4 (+0)
            Extensions -   3 (+0)
             framework -   2 (+0)
          Installation -   2 (+0)
                   sdk -   1 (+0)
                + http://tdf.io/allregressions

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