Minutes of the ESC call 2012-10-11

Attending: Joel, Fridrich, Thorsten, Eike, Andras, Caolan, Kendy,
           David, Mirek, Kohei, Cedric, Rodo, Andras, Astron,
           Michael S.

* Completed Action Items
    + Petr to decide release-schedule / overlap gap issue
      + done/expired
    + mail thb/sweetshark for a cheap Berlin / hotel room
      + done
    + push distro/suse/suse-3.6 branch (Andras)
      + done

* Pending Action Items
    + create a new AmbitiousHacks wiki page, based on GSOC page (Michael M)
    + [in progress] enable automatic help build / sync. on a cron-job (Kendy)
        + script written, deploy it
    + issues to look into if we can
        + fdo#34548 - review Michael's patch (Thorsten)
        + fdo#55290 - master doesn't install on windows (dtardon)
        + fdo#55360 - mac specific text issue (Thorsten)
        + fdo#51023 - impress D&D crasher - (Radek)
    + ping Tollef wrt. sysadmin work (Bjoern)

* Release Engineering update (Petr)
    + vacation / quality report (deferred)
    + should we enable on-line updates to 3.6.2 ?
        + fdo#55560 / fdo#52022 needs fixing before general update
        + upgrade 3.5.0-3.5.1 to 3.6.2 though, those versions are
          clearly inferior.
    + 3.5.7 status
        + 3.5.7 rc2 built (fixes docx crasher), due next week
    + 3.6.3 rc1 status
        + builds running, mirror push tomorrow
        + rc2 22nd of october (fdo#55560 needs fixing!)

* UI / design update (Astron)
    + gtk3 prototype
        + interesting food for thought
    + icons for new conditional formats in cells ... (pending)
    + no chat this week, handling happens on the list

* conference (Thorsten)
    + in-person ESC meeting 16th October, 17:00 local time at the venue.

* QA update (Joel)
    + HardHack list moved to wiki - http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/HardHacks
      - updates / assignments appreciated there
    + 3.5 MAB needs cherry-picking and folding into 3.6 MAB (some
      don't seem to be valid most annoying)
    + some thoughts around another 3.5 release

* Open 3.7 MAB / regressions [ there should be none ]:
    + fdo#55290 - LOdev 3.7 won't install [ on Windows ]. Error 1935 (dtardon)
    + fdo#55560 - CRASH when Format Cells (menu and Context menu) (Fridrich/Kohei)
    + fdo#55570 - significant autocorrect slow-down (Stephan)
    + fdo#55685 - CRASH when create or modify Character Style or Paragraph Style (fixed by Caolan)
    + https://bugs.freedesktop.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=54157&hide_resolved=1

* Open HardHacks
    + fdo#50285 - Saving document as .doc introduces bogus superscript text

* 3.6 most annoying bugs ...
    + 27 (of 127) older 44/139 46/137 45/132 44/127 39/119 27/96 26/91 21/80 11/58
          21% 32% 34% 34% 35% 33% 28% 29% 26% 19%
    + https://bugs.freedesktop.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=44446&hide_resolved=1

* 3.5 most annoying bugs ...
    + 78 open (of 278) older 81/279 82/279 83/279 80/270 81/269 73/258 73/257
          28% 29% 29% 30% 30% 30% 26% 28%
    + https://bugs.freedesktop.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=37361&hide_resolved=1

* 3.5 bugs tagged with 'regression'
    + 185(+6) bugs open of 853(+20) total

    * ~Component count net *
    + Writer - 80 (-1)
    + Crashes - 21 (+3)
    + Presentation - 18 (+1)
    + LibreOffice - 13 (-1)
    + Borders - 13 (+0)
    + Drawing - 13 (+0)
    + Database - 14 (+1)
    + Migration - 6 (-4)
    + Spreadsheet - 15 (+6)
    + Writer / RTF - 3 (+1)
    + Basic - 2 (+0)

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

-- Thorsten