ESC dashboard

ESC Dashboard

Name	Owner	Prio	Due	Notes
CVS to bazaar/git/subversion transition	Fuhrmann, Meeks, Klose	1	Q1 2008	Weekly meeting Friday 2pm UTC #oooscm, set up prototypes for evaluation. Details on http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/OOoSCM_Minutes. SVN and git prototypes available and publicaly accessable (via SSH). Bazaar import is work in progress. Next steps: discover workflows wrt the different SCMs and development tasks. Open: Split of git repository just because of perfromance issues when dealing with big repositories.
Unified sign on/Federated Identity	Fuhrmann	1		Discussion took place sun internally. Requirement added to http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Infrastructure_Requirements and handed over to Sun team which evaluates hosting efforts.
Wiki/better search, structure	Peters	1		Update wiki engine to 1.11 (staging wiki on doc.services.openoffice.org), implementing hierarchical structure on wiki/Documentation, starting to negotiate structure of localized content with NLC reps
Buildbots	Fuhrmann, Cheng	2		Gregor Hartmann from Sun and Bao Honglin from Redflag CH2000 assigned to this task. Kick of on IRC will take place before X-Mas. List of potential participants gathered and send out to ESC alias.
CWS Upload area	Hollmichel	2	work in progress, Jan '08
Mailing lists/unsubscribed people should get replies to their threads	Fuhrmann	3		Do we realy have to invest into such feature? How many people are affected by this in their daily work? What is the common beahviour of mailing lists?
low barrier of entry/simple account creation	Fuhrmann	4		Talk to Sun team which evaluates hosting efforts took place. Registration via Login-name + Mail + Country seams to be simple enough.
Storage needed for l10n builds, related to modularization issues	Fuhrmann, Hütsch	2
Language Packs/help content should be platform independent	Braconi, Peters	2
Dictionaries to be moved to extensions, modularization	Hütsch	2		Configuration nailed down to make dictionaries as extensions. In progress.
Language Fallback to en-US must be fixed (help img fallback doesn't work)	Bauer	2		Issue existent. Target is OOo 3.0.
Access to translation data to be moved to Pootle	Braconi	2
Process and tools to allow localization of wiki content	Braconi	2
email (offline) access to bugtracking	Fuhrmann	2		Discussion took place sun internally. Requirement added to http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Infrastructure_Requirements and handed over to Sun team which evaluates hosting efforts.
make cvs artwork authoritative	Bauer	3	done	Matthias talked to the owner of the image tool. The tool does corret updates, so people are able to deal with images within CVS directly without getting any conflicts.
create checklist for full open source compliance for developers	Engelhardt	1
QA Unit tests	Meeks, Hütsch
Make high impact bug reports visible	Hollmichel		work in progress, Jan '08	[Ubuntu], [Redflag 2000]
More Developer-focues in processes
fast legal reviews for external modules	Hollmichel			to create meta issue for to be approved issues
easy integration of small fixes	Bauer, Hollmichel, Meeks			aim to get developer process/time overhead for integrating suitably trivial fixes down to the 10minute range.
fast development turnaround	Bauer, Hollmichel, Meeks			follow up meeting needed to determine the issues
short build times	Bauer, Hollmichel, Meeks			follow up meeting needed to determine the issues
more ways of being diverse in the source code				get agreement on including distro-specific patches, artwork, per-distro configuration options etc. into the (D)RCS, and look at ways of making existing hard-to-configure things (eg. settings defaults) build-time configurable.
Modularization, independent Apps	Hütsch, Meeks
Modularization, customizable components (cust. features)	Hütsch, Meeks
Modularization, build on installed OOo	Hütsch, Meeks
Modularization, small developer packages	Hütsch, Meeks
Modularization, modular packages	Hütsch, Meeks
Modularization, smaller, independent packages	Hütsch, Meeks