* Present:
+ Sophie, Olivier, Michael W, Michael M, Heiko, Christian, Kendy,
Xisco, Caolan, Stephan, Eike, Michael S, Thorsten
* Completed Action Items:
* Pending Action Items:
+ disable HSQLDB auto-migration for now except for experimental (Tamas B)
[ ongoing ]
+ Budget ranking by next week (All)
* Release Engineering update (Christian)
+ no releases planned this week.
+ 6.0.5 – RC2 status
+ tagged this week; all builds except Linux-32 on pre-release server
+ re-building Linux-32
+ expect to announce it as final tomorrow
+ very few patches vs. rc1.
+ 6.1.0 beta 2 status
+ released it on Sunday.
+ 6.1 late features
+ calc threading default / fixing (Michael)
+ pleased with progress, few issues open
+ recursion issues nailed, cleaned-up.
+ suggest leaving it on for the .0 release
+ hesitant yes (Eike)
+ crash-testing done (Caolan)
+ before “extra threading” 2-3 moved to 37 issues
+ will continue to work on that (Michael)
+ easy to turn off in an RC if necessary.
+ writer – red-lining re-factoring (Michael S)
+ nothing happened last week,
+ thorsten merged stuff to 6.1 – in disabled state
+ easy to play with environment variable.
+ not on as experimental feature – doesn’t work well enough yet.
+ got a new crash (Xisco)
+ Michael to poke soon.
+ Help format (Stephan/Olivier)
+ with extension, dialog, we load old-style help viewer
for all extensions installed
+ extension help still not integrated well.
+ not added into the hierarchy or integrated into indexes.
+ fixes very old bug wrt. on-line help usage too.
+ slightly less featureful, but somewhat working.
+ extended tooltips don’t work with the new help
+ not going to work on that from now (Stephan)
+ discussion to move tooltips to a field in the dialogs (Olivier)
+ placeholder in dialog widgets for tooltips.
+ Tomaz V has some scripts that might help.
+ what should we do ?
+ go ahead & fix things when we get time (Olivier)
+ lots of advantages from new help
+ main issue is to disconnect from the old help
=> lets go with it and hope for resource to fix tooltips
AI: + enable new help for tinderboxes (Christian)
+ Get-involved info-bar & Help/About menu (Kendy)
+ merged.
+ Making the Notebookbar non-experimental (Heiko)
+ will not be ready – needs communicating
=> will not happen in 6.1
+ Remotes
+ Android viewer
+ Online
* Documentation (Olivier)
+ New Help
+ tweaks in CSS (fitoshido, buovjaga)
+ Fixes in some XML/XSLT rendering (ohallot)
+ Help pages contents
+ some cleanups, fix typos, fix contents (SophiaS, A Gelmini, ohallot)
+ New pages on Basic Internal Libraries (ohallot)
+ undocumented since OO.o
+ Handy macros for the Basic programmer
+ Question raised: Are these libs supported ?
+ if present & used for decades sounds sensible (Michael)
+ Guides: More reviews arriving for publication
+ 60% review done
+ Working on migrating ODFAuthors PLONE to TDF’s NC+LOOL.
* UX Update (Heiko)
+ Bugzilla (topicUI) statistics
246(246) (topicUI) bugs open, 290(290) (needsUXEval) needs to be
evaluated by the UXteam
+ Updates:
BZ changes 1 week 1 month 3 months 12 months
added 5(5) 5(3) 21(1) 87(-1)
commented 23(10) 48(2) 315(-26) 1694(-43)
removed 0(0) 0(0) 1(-1) 10(-1)
resolved 1(0) 4(0) 24(-1) 172(-3)
+ top 10 contributors:
Tietze, Heiko made 19 changes in 1 month, and 741 changes in 1 year
Kainz, Andreas made 17 changes in 1 month, and 36 changes in 1 year
Thomas Lendo made 13 changes in 1 month, and 300 changes in 1 year
Xisco Faulí made 10 changes in 1 month, and 321 changes in 1 year
dieterp made 8 changes in 1 month, and 129 changes in 1 year
Timur made 7 changes in 1 month, and 48 changes in 1 year
Foote, V Stuart made 6 changes in 1 month, and 241 changes in 1 year
Raal made 6 changes in 1 month, and 17 changes in 1 year
Buovjaga made 4 changes in 1 month, and 158 changes in 1 year
eisa01 made 4 changes in 1 month, and 7 changes in 1 year
+ Drop IME (File > View > Input Method Status and underlying code)
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