* Present:
+ Affiliated with TDF: Florian Effenberger, Mike Saunders, Juan
Jose Gonzales, Stephane Guillou, Xisco Fauli, Hossein Nourikhah,
Christian Lohmaier, Michael Weghorn (City of Munich until 2023-06-30),
Stephan Ficht, Olivier Hallot, Heiko Tietze, Sophie Gautier, Ilmari
Lauhakangas
+ Affiliated with Hideas: Italo Vignoli
+ Affiliated with Collabora: Caolan McNamara
+ Affiliated with allotropia: Thorsten Behrens
+ Affiliated with Red Hat: Stephan Bergmann
+ Unaffiliated: Regina Henschel
* Completed Action Items:
* Pending Action Items:
* ESC budget voting (Ilmari)
* Preparations
* blogpost with call for proposals was published with more than 15
days deadline
* wiki page was available for everyone to edit
* ESC minutes were shared publicly and sent to mailing lists
* today's call was announced publicly
* ranking spreadsheet was always public in an up to date version
* updated ESC tendering process draft:
https://nextcloud.documentfoundation.org/s/ysttSYyRnyM6QYF
* Pending items
* transparency section of the website must be in place before
tendering starts, Italo is working on it
* blogpost with ranking spreadsheet must be published as soon
as that
one is finalized
* Proposals
* No paid external expert was requested.
* No urgency request was made.
* Do all proposals on today's list have a sufficient
description and
cost estimate? Yes.
* Have all cost estimates been re-evaluated by only non-conflicted
members of the ESC? Yes.
* Ranking
* ALL proposals must be ranked.
* Proposal by a committee that has a majority of non-Conflicted
members.
* Decision then by CONSENSUS of only the non-Conflicted members.
* Failing that, majority VOTE by only non-Conflicted members.
* Spreadsheet with comments from TDF staff:
https://nextcloud.documentfoundation.org/s/i9CSEs2gjFisc2y
* Budget pages for reference:
+ https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Budget2020
+ https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Budget2021
+ https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Budget2022
+ https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Budget2023
* Propose to drop it
+ GraphicFilter clean-up (2020)
+ Done by Tomaž (thanks!)
+ Text runs of RTL scripts (e.g. Arabic, Hebrew, Persian)
from imported PDF are reversed, PDFIProcessor::mirrorString not
behaving (2022)
+ Fixed by Kevin Suo (thanks!)
+ UNO API changes subscription/feedback channel (2022)
+ TDF infra team will be able to implement this
+ Regular scan-build reports like we do with CppCheck (2022)
+ Cloph can do it, just hook up existing cppcheck as jenkins job
https://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/cppcheck_reports/master/
+ Multi-color gradient (2022)
+ allotropia already working on this / done for 7.6
+ Fix accessibility issues (2022)
+ Description too vague, now TDF has hired an accessibility
developer
+ Automated test tools for finding text rendering defects
+ Khaled is already working on it
+ Improve the experience of the CPP SDK
+ Hossein working on it
* Propose to put it on hold for now
+ Bitmaps in vcl: Use a native format/depth (2022)
+ Lacked time to estimate
+ Table Styles improvements (2022)
+ Lacked time to estimate
+ Unify Writer and Draw Images (2022)
+ Lacked time to estimate
+ Decouple master slide and layouts (2022)
+ Lacked time to estimate
+ Missing ODF Features: Concentric gradient fill of
custom-shapes (2022)
+ Lacked time to estimate
+ Bridge the gap between drawinglayer and VCL (2022)
+ Lacked time to estimate
+ Rolling Release: Finish MAR-based autoupdater for Windows (2021)
+ Very large size and large maintenance cost for infra.
Partially addressed with the app stores.
+ Stabilize cross-page table layouting (2022)
+ The selection of bugs seems random
+ XLSX Aggressive Competitors tracker: table styles (ranked 6
in Feb 2023)
+ has a dependency which needs to be completed first
+ Power optimization research (ranked 43 in Feb 2023)
+ We are working with KDE regarding the Blue Angel certificate
* Reviewed items to be voted on
+ Cleanup & further improve ODF conformance (2021)
+ Convert Impress slideshow to drawinglayer primitives (2021)
+ Writer tables: support cell margins (next to cell padding) (2021)
+ Font subsetter for font embedding (2022)
+ XLSX Aggressive Competitors tracker: gridlines for 3d line
charts (2022)
+ Look-ahead styleref field for Writer
