[libreoffice-projects] [ANN] LibreOffice 5.1.4 RC2 available

[Christian Lohmaier]

Dear Community,

The Document Foundation is pleased to announce the second release
candidate of LibreOffice 5.1.4. The upcoming 5.1.4 will be the fourth
bugfix release of our fresh 5.1 line. Please be aware that LibreOffice
5.1.4 RC2 has not been flagged as ready for production use yet,
however feel free to give it a try instead of 5.0.6 or 5.1.3.

A work-in-progress list of new features in LibreOffice 5.1 can be
found at https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/5.1

The release is available for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X from our QA
builds download page at

  http://www.libreoffice.org/download/pre-releases/

Windows builds are also provided in 64bit version.

Developers and QA might also be interested in the symbol server for
windows debug information (see
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/How_to_get_a_backtrace_with_WinDbg
for details)

Should you find bugs, please report them to our Bugzilla:

  https://bugs.documentfoundation.org

A good way to assess the release candidate quality is to run some
specific manual tests on it, our TCM wiki page has more details:

 
http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/Testing/Regression_Tests#Full_Regression_Test

For other ways to get involved with this exciting project - you can
e.g. contribute code:

  http://www.libreoffice.org/community/developers/

translate LibreOffice to your language:

  http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/LibreOffice_Localization_Guide

or help with funding our operations:

  http://donate.libreoffice.org/

A list of known issues and fixed bugs compared to 5.1.4 rc1 is
available from our wiki:

  http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Releases/5.1.4/RC2

Let us close again with a BIG Thank You! to all of you having
contributed to the LibreOffice project - this release would not have
been possible without your help.

On behalf of the Community,

Christian

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[libreoffice-projects] minutes of ESC call ...

[Michael Meeks]

* Present:
+ Bjoern, Norbert, Stephan, Jan I, Jan-Marek, Sophie, Miklos, Michael S,
  Robinson, Christian, Caolan, David, Kendy, Olivier, Thorsten, Michael M

* Completed Action Items:
+ fix / limit the per-processor thread-pool (Ashod)
[ set to max 4 during unit tests ]
AI: + back-port it to 5-1 and -5-2 (Ash)
+ mail list of guys for certification (Stephan)
[ all mailed, all accepted ].
+ mail Laurent BP, Rishabh Kumar, Alex Pantecthem wrt. commit (Thorsten)
 
* Pending Action Items:
+ investigate a cron job that queries & auto-merges (Norbert)
 + if +2 by author and +1 by jenkins -> auto-push (on-going)
 [ some problem; stream events don't contain both +1 and +2 -
   a bit complicated; needs a query (Norbert) ]
+ tweak UI and get LiveConnect API key / build case for board (Christian)
+ attempt to re-build a recent gstreamer 1.0 / core spec file
  on our CentOS6 base (tdf#94508) (Christian)
 
* Release Engineering update (Christian)
+ 5.2 Beta 2 update
+ also available on the mirrors
+ not doing an (optional) B3 this week
+ one pending Debian packaging bug - one file in multiple packages
+ also a problem with help related to authoring extension.
+ RC1 due on Tuesday ... (June 21st - English string & UI freeze)
+ libreoffice-5-2-0 branch-off: July 5 (hard code freeze) - rc2
+ 5.1.4 update
+ up-loaded 5.1.4 rc2 just before the call.
+ 5.1.5 rc1 : July 12th (week 28)
+ Caolan will fix the help strings issue (Caolan)
+ happy (Cloph)
+ Android & iOS Remote
+ Android viewer has runtime problems, will debug & push a fix (Cloph)
+ crashes when loading documents on master currently ...
+ releases are from master so far.
 
* Documentation (Olivier)
+ Finished porting HelpAuthoring OOo schema documentation to TDF wiki:
+ https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/HelpContentAuthoring
-> e.g. updated with  new tag (Olivier, tagezi)
+ readable; and now can be edited to improve it.
+ Updated chapter 10 (Print, Export, Mail) of Getting started book.
 
* GSoC 2016 (Thorsten)
+ June 26th - midterm eval due, make sure it's filed or ask your co-mentor!
+ if in doubt ask Thorsten/Moggi/JanI
+ ask/encourage students to submit & register for LibOCon
 
* UX Update (Kendy)
+ GSoC reports on progress
+ wider discussion on templates - how they should be managed
+ when is it better to open it for editing vs. opening a doc. based on 
it.
+ how can we distinguish it better.
+ Area-fill & side-bar improvements going well.
+ latest writer menu changes
+ max. of 20 items for menu - some important stuff goes to sub-menus
+ a poll going on to have some input from people.
+ discussing auto-creation of screenshots.
 
* Crashtest update (Caolan)
+ 1 import failures, 3 export failure, 0 coverity
+ ok again; not reproducible failures - fails on test machines, not locally.
+ looking at backtraces in BZ - down to 12 still open
+ Moggi's crash testing producing good stuff.
 
* Hackfests (Bjoern)
+ next hackfests: nothing confirmed yet.
+ Hamburg Home-hacking setup ? (Bjoern)
+ next venues / suggestions
+ Chaos event - good for outreach; at the same time as Munich.
+ Infra Meetup: July 24th to 30th, close to Munich (kaufbeuren)
+ Akademy / FSFE summit - in the week before LibOCon ? (Thorsten)
+ more suggestions welcome
+ Autumn / week-long Home-Hacking in Hamburg with students? (Bjoern)
+ advertise at university ? C++ training ? etc.
 
* LibreOffice Conference in Brno - CfP open (Sophie)
+ Kendy & Thorsten on program committee:
+ 
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2016/04/08/libreoffice-brno-conference-call-for-paper/
+ deadline is mid July.
+ OSBA interop. working group (Thorsten)
+ desire a professional user track cf. Bern.
+ got some good feedback;
+ will propose it to the conf. organizers.
+ 1/2 a day of that.
 
* Mentoring/easyhack update (janI)
   + legend: contributors are not-yet-committers, numbers in () are +/- 
compared to last week
   + summary:
   17357(0) commits in a year of which 8801(-34) were made directly, 
without use of gerrit
   293(0) people made commits in a year, 32(-15) in a month. 38(10) people 
to be emailed
   + gerrit:   committer open  65(10)  contributor open  48(-13)
   updated merged   abandoned   updated  mergedabandoned
year:   65(10) 7142(112) 562(1)  48(-13)  1414(-78)  476(-2)
month:  64(9)   974(12)   40(2)  47(-14)   164(-3)39(0)
week:   51(13)  202(-19)   8(0)  33(-4) 42(2) 11(-1)
   + easyHacks:
total 229(-9) open 201(-5) assigned 18(-4)
needinfo 10(0) needsDevEval 474(5) needsUXEval 90(16)
missing