ESC minutes
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Engineering Steering Committee Meetings Minutes
The Engineering Steering Committee meets every two weeks on Monday 4pm UTC (http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meeting.html).
agenda for next meetings
2007-05-28
- regular review of long-term road-blocked patches
open agenda items
- OpenOffice.org source control system (SCM): what is the roadmap for the future ?
Minutes
2007-05-14
regular review of long-term road-blocked patches
calc: persist csv import settings
mmeeks: walk through of the timeline
mba: something that the IRT/IIT metrics don't catch
UE team don't track issues regularly & Falko left
mmeeks: It seems some people (UE) demand their say, but then don't say anything.
mba: didn't we suggest timeouts for non-controversial changes before ? here for User Experience ?
mmeeks: yes - but discarded by QA previously, as part of stymied new inclusion work-flow.
Nesshof: did you consider mailing dev@specs to ping them ?
mmeeks: no; we don't have the issue in our ooo-builds, why burn yet more time here ?
gsl: image shrink - ka009
coordinating the next feature releases
Clarify what the important issues for the next releases are, who is doing what work, next major version of OpenOffice.org
Nesshof: Please update Features page with details.
coordination of new features
We just experience that two groups Novell and CH2000 are working on the same feature (text grid control)
mmeeks: This is an issue of CH2000 not doing their work in a public fashion, Novell consulted, blogged, and took this to the ODF TC. xiuzhi: to avoid the confilt with other voluteers again,I will give a list of new feature we will submited
2007-04-30
participants: cmc, mh, pjanik, vq
1. IRC, Telecon, Telecon/IRC, Skype meetings?
mh will provide dial in number until May 14th Idea: should we try using e.g. Skype?
2. Nils, Xiuzhi and Dieter will be added to the list.
3. AI: mmeeks will provide list of top 10 patches and we will try to cover first 2 - 3 in a meeting ?
