[Libreoffice-qa] Minutes of ESC call [2016-02-04]

2016-02-04 Thread Jan Holesovsky
* Present:
+ Jan-Marek, Kendy, Norbert, Sophie, Christian, Robinson, Bjoern, Eike, 
Miklos, Andras,
  JanI, Caolán, Muthu, Michael S, Olivier
 
* Finished Action Items:
+ mail to ask new certificees for approval (Stephan)
+ add gerrit stats & old/stale commit links to ESC agenda (JanI)
 
* Pending Action Items:
+ chase impress mode-switching patch - make the button more prominent 
(Cloph)
[ did not get to that yet, will mention in release notes ]
+ Update/fix: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/GSoC/Ideas 
(All)
+ double-check duplicate libmar/src, update/src (Kendy)
+ add more repos from gerrit/github to gitdm-config scripts (e.g. for 
Document Liberation repos) (Thorsten)
 [ there was a mail from Thorsten, probably done ]
+ add stuff to Release Notes and Under The Hood (everyone)
 
* Release Engineering update (Christian)
+ 5.0.5 RC2 update
+ will be done after the call; couldn't do earlier due to traveling
+ 5.0.6 will be the last 5.0 release - RC1 due ?
+ this will be the last one
+ April 12th rc1
+ 5.1.0 release update
+ to be announced the next week
+ 5.1.1 RC1 due ?
+ next week, February 9th
+ Late Features:
+ New Slide Transitions: polish
+ UserAgent display & tweakage
+ URL for the online documentation needs change (Bjoern)
+ impress mode switching (Kendy)
+ Android & iOS Remote
+ build breakage updated; Android builds ready
+ up-loaded soon.
+ iOS remote needs re-releasing with new certificate
+ due later this week.
+ probably new Android release soon due to the nice new storage support
+ Release Notes: are they complete:
+ https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/5.1
=> please do fill that out ... check commit logs.
+ https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/UnderTheHood/5.1
+ help also appreciated.
 
* Documentation (Olivier)
+ new helppages
+ wrote some notes on the project - local help related
+ would like to have the dedicated app exchanged with opening in
  the browser (even the local help)
+ would be good to add videos etc.
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Help_Content_Modernization
+ needs some JS hacking (Kendy)
+ would like to do that as GSoC (Olivier)
AI  + add it to the ideas page (Kendy)
+ willing to co-mentor, if you find a good student (Kendy)
+ how do you want to bundle the videos? (Jan-Marek)
+ we can discuss the size of the package (Olivier)
+ heaviest can be online, small on locally; currently
  only a brain-storm (Olivier)
+ I just don't want to rely completely on online help (Jan-Marek)
+ blocking on the JS / indexing application, content can
  be decided later (Kendy)
+ large overlap with the wikihelp project (Miklos). May replace wikihelp 
completely (olivier)
 
* GSoC 2016 (Thorsten, JanI)
+ Urgent: please update & fix before Feb 8th:
+ https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/GSoC/Ideas
+ 3 admin volunteers: JanIV, Moggi, Thorsten
+ application to be submitted in up to a week (JanI)
 
* UX Update (Kendy)
+ GSoC tasks - for the things that we designed in the last year
+ will have a survey about Draw
+ ~5 UI changes from non-committers pending, UX team should review (JanI)
+ ATM assigned to Kendy
 
* Reviewing larger mail merge patchsets (Jan-Marek)
+ two branches with larger mail merge changes
+ private/jmux/mm-cleanup (~25 patches)
- mainly refactors MM itself
+ feature/mailmerge-toolbar from Kendy (~30 patches)
- minimal changes to the mail merge code, but new UI
+ How are these normally merged?
+ Somebody wants / can do a review?
+ normally rebase + push to master (Kendy)
+ no need for an additional review (Miklos)
+ make sure though that the 'make check' with dbgutil enabled passes
+ test branch with: ./logerrit testfeature  (Bjoern)
 
* Crashtest update (Caolan)
+ 0 import failures, 1 export failures, 100 (+4/-30) coverity
+ how much coverity is Java? (Bjoern)
+ 99 (Caolan)
 
* Japanese event summary (?)
+ 9th January in Osaka 
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Events/LibOCon_mini_JP
+ 10th January, hackfest http://libojapan.connpass.com/event/24081/
+ Kohei's blog / slides 
  http://kohei.us/2016/01/26/libreoffice-mini-conference-2016-in-osaka/
 
* FOSDEM Hackfest / Event update
+ https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Hackfest/FOSDEM2016
+ hackfest was great, mentored a new contributor (Miklos)
+ FOSDEM itself - booth much better located this year, many visitors 
(Miklos)
+ devroom great too (Miklos)
+ lots of non-LibreOffice people there too (Kendy)
+ 2015 videos: https://video.fosdem.org/2015/devro

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] Minutes of ESC call [2016-02-04]

2016-02-09 Thread Bjoern Michaelsen
Hi,

On Thu, Feb 04, 2016 at 08:59:16PM +0100, Jan Holesovsky wrote:
> * Hackfests (Bjoern)
> + Turkey
> + talked to them; lots of enthusiasm & desire for training.
> + mid-March hack-fest expected.
> + concrete dates ?
> + concrete volunteer mentors?
> + Jan-Marek maybe

highlighting this item for visibility: We are contemplating a Hackfest in
Turkey, but it would be good to have at least some experienced mentors to go
there.

If you are interested, please contact me on list or off list.

Best,

Bjoern
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