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- Forwarded message from Michael Meeks michael.me...@suse.com - Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 16:55:50 +0100 From: Michael Meeks michael.me...@suse.com To: libreoffice-dev libreoff...@lists.freedesktop.org, Libreoffice-qa libreoffice...@lists.freedesktop.org Subject: [Libreoffice-qa] minutes of ESC call ... X-Mailer: Evolution 3.2.3 * Present: + Pierre-Eric, Stephan, Lionel, Eike, Bjoern, Michael, Cedric, Astron, Thorsten, Rainer, Caolan, David, Petr * Completed Action Items + fix gerrit moderation issues (Bjoern) + help Mirek update Mac installer artwork (Thorsten) + always official artwork in RC1, needs thoufgth + adapt bring closer the 3.5.6 schedule (Petr) + design team made nice google+ post about new templates (Mirek) https://plus.google.com/u/0/102673546895803839652/posts/B69SRVVi89t * Pending Action Items + notify all committers when we have a nice simple, minimal statement of what is required for gerrit written (Bjoern) + pending Norbert's return + check new templates are using auto-fitting functionality (Thorsten) + crediting: can we separate templates in the credits page (Spaetz?) * Release Engineering update (Petr) + 3.5.5 retrospective + went well, modulo needing another release-candidate + should we extend the gap between RC's - or not ? + prolly not we get few of these fix regressions + 3.5.6 RC1 - July 14th - 2 weeks time. + 3.6.0 RC1 + builds ready, pending Mac PPC builds, announce tomorrow + looking good, but plenty of bugs to fix + 3.6.0 RC2 - Monday deadline AI: + quest for kind volunteer to update the website (Michael) + Unique IP's using 3.6.0 betas so far: + B1 - 1100 + B2 - 1000 + B3 - 220 * GSOC update (Cedric) + time to ensure all evaluations are in; only 2 pending. * UI / design update (Astron) + concerns about green-ness of new branding + leave it as-is for now; fix later in 3.6.2 if people havn't acclimatised to the brightness. + more tweaks to meet branding / alignment requirements = new splashes coming + progress bar appearance on OS/X is poor + about-box / background image work in progress AI: + Mango icons - not in yet, going in ~tomorrow (Astron) AI: + fix CC-By-SA licensing requirements (Michael) * re-basing update (Michael) + 76 modules ~complete, 59 to go + ~17k files re-based. * Solaris compile / status update (Pierre-Eric) + friendly French chap working for Lanedo + couple of weeks of work to make it compile on Solaris with gcc + so far, starts, looks pretty and crashes + involved on IRC (pepp) - debugging and improving things there + focused on Intel initially * un-merged patches in bugzilla (Michael S / Caolan) + halved the numbers of open bugs * cppunit / build issues (Michael) + deferred for Markus / David to be present. * QA update (Rainer) + business as usual + no un-expected problems in 3.6 + no real blockers known currently + Tollef's bugzilla improvements + migrated database to faster virtualised hardware. + fewer error-message problems so far. * Windows / ldap (Fridrich) + porting from mozilla ldap library to native windows API + moving to openldap included for linux / generic builds + leave mozilla code for addressbook integration, and/or re-write to avoid big chunk of mozilla bundled + use NSS for security pieces * gerrit update (David / Bjoern) + E-mail firehose + initially a bit much, turned it down a bit. + send mails for 'new change' and 'merged' now. + 'merged' is buggy, if you push directly without signing-off on gerrit before; bug filed. + gerritbot: scripting to eg. send mails etc. is in: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/contrib/dev-tools/tree/gerritbot + can we have the patch in the 'new change' mail (Lionel) + would be nice ! + two ways to do mailing - better to move to using stream object and generate our own mails (Bjoern) + change templates on server-side; would affect all subscribing to a watched project. + could we not send mails for committers' changes (Petr) + hard to do (Bjoern) + some benefits + only a few more steps (Eike) + confusion from several routes through the flow + patches are well-formed apply (Michael) + unwelcome transactional cost (Fridrich)
[libreoffice-projects] [michael.me...@suse.com: [Libreoffice-qa] minutes of ESC call ...]
- Forwarded message from Michael Meeks michael.me...@suse.com - Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2012 16:13:21 +0100 From: Michael Meeks michael.me...@suse.com To: libreoffice-dev libreoff...@lists.freedesktop.org, Libreoffice-qa libreoffice...@lists.freedesktop.org Subject: [Libreoffice-qa] minutes of ESC call ... X-Mailer: Evolution 3.2.3 * Present: + Norbert, Rainer, Eike, Lionel, Michael, Stephan, Andras, Cedric, Bjoern, Kendy, Astron, Petr, Mitch * Completed Action Items + add encryption default UI option in 3.6 (Thorsten) + poke at Windows 8 certification requirements (Andras) + ran the test kit on LibreOffice, passed with warnings + clean uninstall modulo + not un-installing fonts - a feature + file signing issues - need to sign executables + tested on 64bit Win8 - works nicely. + update the splash-screen image for 3.6 (Astron) + contest ongoing ... targeted for Beta3 * Pending Action Items + [pending] merge the new pretty templates in place of the old ugly ones (Bjoern) + all of the templates in modulo BrightBlue problems + these show up only in the product + ready in a branch for merge before Beta2 * Release Engineering update (Petr) + 3.6 / Beta 1 retrospective + delayed by deluge of commits just before FF. + misc. problems caused by one-off gbuild migrations + testing much encouraged here: + not enough new 3.6 specific bugs + 3.6 / Beta 2 + Monday freeze - want all late-features in by then. + 3.5.5 + thanks for all the patch reviews ! + linux build host failed, Fridrich re-built a replacement + rc1 builds up-loaded, deadline for rc2 is in 25th June + longer window than usual * GSOC update (Cedric) + checked-in with a few students this week * Late features for Beta2 + Windows 7 / UI improvements needs 2x more reviews. + Astron: approved the look - with some bug fixes AI: + provide 3rd review of it (Markus) + calc: data-bars color-scales (Moggi) + Beta1 has most of the core changes for the feature + dialogs ODF changes were missing need review / merging + ~1k lines of change AI: + mail this evening for that (Markus) AI: + review Markus' changes (Kendy) AI: + sanity check UI of Markus' changes (Astron) AI: + final sanity check of Kendy's issues (Eike) * UI / design update (Astron) + icon licensing AI: + send out some mail addresses to poke (Astron) AI: + poke Tango authors (Michael) + default document / style-loading before feature-freeze + not quite ready yet + limited font selection annoying / is it worthwhile ? + needs testing, as to whether updating the std. styles alters future documents, and/or impacts performance = punt to 3.7 post discussion + discussing promoting style use (Kendy/Mirek) + show styles in a drop-down + with a sub-menu for improving the styles * SQLite vs. HSQLDB for base (Lionel) + SQLite very sloppy typing can cause serious problems cf. https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38811 + no date/time datatype. = perhaps not a good idea to switch to sqlite longer term + without tons of special casing, get lots of nasty bugs outside string, float + a new candidate with sane licensing, sane language, and code size required - thinking ongoing. + our best shot might be firebird + MPL license variant + feature set looks good * Idiots' guide to using gerrit (Bjoern) + postponed for next week * Exciting - existing user profile / upgrade bug tracker: + https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43489 + potentially split this out into the 3.5 regression breakdown * gcc 4.7 builds (Bjoern) + is anyone building regularly with this ? + latest Fedora building routinely with that (Stephan) + mostly just new warning cleanup + found an internal compiler error (Bjoern) + subsequenttest failure (Bjoern) + UNO bridges over-aggressive optimisation fix (Stephan) * MSI cross-compile / packaging (Mitch) + Elidh making good progress, sees MSI files created by the code... * re-basing update (Michael) + so far ~4k / 60k .[ch] files re-based + more aggressive string cleanups etc. are now welcome in any file
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- Forwarded message from Michael Meeks michael.me...@suse.com - Date: Thu, 17 May 2012 21:00:51 +0100 From: Michael Meeks michael.me...@suse.com To: libreoffice-dev libreoff...@lists.freedesktop.org, Libreoffice-qa libreoffice...@lists.freedesktop.org Subject: [Libreoffice-qa] minutes of ESC call ... X-Mailer: Evolution 3.2.1 * Present: + Rainer, Petr, Kendy, Bjoern, Michael, David, Tor, Eike, Andras, Caolan, Astron, Kohei, Markus, Norbert, Thorsten * Completed action items + poke Jimmac for updated Tango icons (Mirek/Astron) + v. positive response from Lapo + Noel to ack repeat-format proposal for ODF/TC (Noel / Thorsten) + get Alexander commit access give a free hand (Michael) + look at bytemark / win32 tinderboxes (Fridrich) * Pending Action Items + [working on it] pull up misc. internal versions for 3.6 (Fridrich) + latest cairo build bust on Windows - cairo needed for svg + switch to ChromeOS fonts in master if no reply from Liberation team (Caolan) + http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2012-May/167150.html + rename VCL API to make it GetBeamerFoo fix (Michael) + [pending] add encryption default UI option in 3.6 (Thorsten) + [in-progress] think over consequences of moving master - 3.6 on release etc. (Rainer) + finding the best sol'n + [in-progress] create new bugzilla components next week (Rainer) + write 2 paragraph gerrit teaser to dev-list (Bjoern) + connect Rainer with sysadmins wrt. status/live issues ticker (Thorsten) * Action Items review * GSOC update (Cedric) + poke students who havn't interacted - kick them if no git commit details setup interactions. * UI / design update (Astron/Mirek) + Alex - working on a design for Android / file manager + another good looking design for the impress remote + discussions around updating Tango on-going + conditional formatting - color-scales for 3.6 or not ? + it will be in 3.6, with data-bars ... + prettier rulers theming (Kendy) + improved ruler thanks to Mirek's design + Windows 7 theming improvements in progress * Release Engineering update (Petr) + 3.5.4 - update + RC1 builds up-loading to mirrors; on-schedule. + Monday: deadline for 3.5.4rc2 + 3.6 status + Will do an Alpha0 build to test building ... week before feature-freeze ie. week after 3.5.4-rc2 + connectivity, reportreader, shell, scp2 + will enable adding 10-12 modules to tail_build. + will merge next week, in time for 3.6 + eager tripple review volunteers for experimental features + Petr, Bjoern, Caolan * git submodules status / update (Norbert) + plan to integrate remaining modules into git using submodules + switching to it is a bit of a pain + renaming everything one directory up is annoying + applying patches across is annoying + can still checkout just the repos you want + tinbuild work is ongoing + best window to include it - before LibO 3.6 ** Interesting for Release Engineers ** + will move the git structure around inside binfilter, dictionaries, helpcontent + will try to get it in before 3.6 branch + http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Submodules + Advantage is - one sha identified version, across the board - and git bisecting works. * build / tinderbox machines + bytemark windows tinderbox machine up running ... + building a full install with debugsymbols + once per day. AA: + get up-load ssh keys sent / setup (Norbert / Thorsten) * security bug / updated website review (Caolan) + latest CVE information update at: http://www.libreoffice.org/advisories/ + perhaps should list CVEs that don't affect us too ? * QA update (Rainer) + creating new bugzilla components + please visit link answer questions tomorrow http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Talk:BugReport_Details * 3.5 most annoying bugs ... + 60 open (of 213) older 67/211 68/205 71/205 68/199 74/201 73/193 66/183 28% 32% 33% 35% 34%37%38% 36% + https://bugs.freedesktop.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=37361hide_resolved=1 * 3.5 bugs tagged with 'regression' + 151(+6) bugs open of 556(+24) total * Componentcount net * + Writer - 58 (+5) + Presentation - 18 (-4) + LibreOffice - 15 (+2) + Spreadsheet - 13 (+3) + Drawing - 9 (+0) +
