Attendees:
+ Michael, Caolan, Kendy, Andreas, Rainer, Timar,
Tor, Thorsten, Petr, Francois, Norbert, Cedric
* Completed AA's
+ binned dlsym'd fontconfig & non-fontconfig X font code paths (Caolan)
+ avoid: completely junking gnome-vfs backend & startup hooks (Caolan)
+ glib not built internally, and system integration issues with
gio
+ RHEL5 & similar vintage don't have gio => gnome-vfs still
needed
+ put Rainer in touch with Gerv (Michael)
+ kill Adabas integration dead in master (Francois)
+ disabled for a release, removed next release
* AA still pending:
+ Easy Hacks - completion / fixing (Bjoern)
+ get SmartArt into master as an experimental feature (Thorsten)
+ remove old non-cairo cases (Caolan)
+ bin monochrome & paletised display support with prejudice (Caolan)
* Action Items
* QA feedback (Rainer)
+ short report concerning results of our German QA Meeting last weekend
+ lots of barbeque, fun, and some results
+ bugzilla - leave it at freedesktop.org or not ?
+ collect goals & required features eg.
UNCONFIRMED as default & some timelines
+ then discuss with freedesktop guys.
+ concerns: wrt. compromises wrt. other projects
+ probably: some day, one year out ? migrate away.
+ decision in six months time.
+ eg. automated access for bug reporting agent ?
+ bugzilla setup easy, but upgrade / migration hard.
+ bug hunting ...
+ try bug-hunting session each month:
every 1st Tuesday of a month, EU afternoon - night
+ wiki page coming to list details
+ main-page / August banner ads to encourage that
+ goals: to confirm / triage bugs - no hacking skills
necessary
+ help quality
+ getting out of step with code changes in places
+ a common feeling, something should be done
AA: + contact / discuss with the documentation team to
find owners for help bugs (Rainer)
+ Timar to help out with minor cleanups / removals
+ Extensions repo testing / status (Andreas Mantke)
+ site is setup / working / published to website list
+ http://extensions2.libreoffice.org/
+ branding work improved, not opened for new accounts
yet
+ work on anti-spam account filtering ongoing
+ populate with existing Free Software extensions
+ contact extension authors to populate the site
+ readying to go live.
+ graphical comparison tool
- update regression tests ongoing
* Cross-compilation update (Tor)
+ what works
+ configure script configures for cross-compilation
+ make compiles native build-time tooling
+ then cross-compilation starts
+ for Windows - approx. 1/2 the way before errors,
due to missing pieces in MingW
+ Jesus getting involved too, and re-appling
GSOC 2009 work to the problem from 'build'
+ problematic msi creation tools, WINE ?
+ for iOS - gets quite far, nothing is linked
+ Matus' work should help here.
+ for Android - tries to link things, much missing
from VCL etc.
+ hopefully gtk3 / broadway work can help GUI-wise.
+ to PPC Mac from Intel Mac - not tried it much, in
theory the easiest target.
+ lots more work to do, but nothing really impossible
+ UI for embedded platforms requires much more work
* Releng bits (Petr)
+ 3.3.3 post-release roundup
+ out last week, no known regressions filed
+ future of 3.3 branch (Rainer)
+ QA meeting tested 3.3.3
+ less community interest in testing 3.3.3
+ eagerness to test new features etc.
+ concern for wasted man-power on 3.3.x
+ what are our goals ?
+ unify distro maintenance work
+ keep security up-to-date
+ key as balance for less stable point-zero versions
etc.
AA: + communicate more minimal QA requirements for each release
(Petr)
+ 3.4.1 status / roundup & 3.4.2
+ fdo#38590 charts seem to be leaking meta-file descriptors
as they are rendered (amazingly) - nasty.
+ if in 3.4.0, no regression, release note & move on.
+ otherwise large numbers of bugs fixed, RC2 pre-release builds
ready
+ should get announced tomorrow
* Release quality / complaints ... (Cor / Italo / Olivier)
+ presenters not present
+ extend the feature-freeze period for 3.5 ?
+ Norbert: may not help people fix things, just move
their work to the next generation.
+ Petr: earlier Beta / Alpha releases ? need to be useable
and QA done continuously / before freeze as well.
+ Norbert: 3.4 impacted by merging m106, don't have this
issue next time around
+ Caolan: nightly builds are now working, and should help
get QA access to the code, and insight into progress
+ Caolan: more automatic regression tests are coming too
+ Rainer: not much penetration in QA team of nightly
snapshots, most don't know where to find them.
AA: + check out nightlies, and encourage others to use (Rainer)
+ Nobert: treat feature-freeze as a release for QA purposes ?
+ Caolan: master perception - should be always ok, ready to ship
at any time - not actually broken modulo occasional build
issues
+ the future should not be as bad as the 3.4.0 panic.
* Posting TSC minutes on the blog ...
+ Norbert: wording is very terse, not enough context, not suitable
for mass public consumption.
+ Suggestion: needs to be expanded, and made more comprehensible,
someone who wants that can/should do it.
* library merging plan (Matus)
+ didn't make it to the call
* gettext - should we use it for everything ?
+ punt until next time ... need: Caolan, Bjoern
+ preliminary thoughts:
+ if no slower - cold / warm start
+ if no bigger - bloating codebase
+ then should use it, otherwise as a fallback.
+ is fallback mode useful for translators ?
+ not so useful for entirely new language
because the code needs lots of touching
+ could be useful for established translators who
want to check their work quickly
* Norbert's whitespace cleaning C app
AA: + review it ASAP (Kendy, Tor)
+ is the speed / correctness trade-off right ?
+ speedup is 2x orders of magniture over sed on a 36hr conversion
+ Tor: how fast is 'expand' as an alternative ?
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