[board-discuss] Board report 1st quarter 2015: development

Hi all,

Here is a summary what happened in development in quarter 1 of 2015:

- three parts of the Android tender have been implemented by contractors of TDF:
  - work packages 1 and 2 were implemented by Collabora
  - work package 4 was implemented by Igalia
- development of LibreOffice towards the next major release after 4.4 continues
  at a steady pace:
  https://www.openhub.net/p/libreoffice
- LibreOffice takes part at GSoC and has received a good load of applications
- quite a few new GSoC students have been working on EasyHacks
- continued work towards a native 64-bit Windows version
- preparations for google phasing out OpenID (for gerrit)
- Bugzilla migration
- continued supervision of master branch with crash testing and document
  validation, thanks to Markus
- Improved CI and testing of sumbitted changes with gerrit/Jenkins, thanks to
  Norbert
- good stats on branch health, thanks to Norbert
- a push to create more EasyHacks for newcomer onboarding
- discussions on the technical implication of changing versioning schemes
- a tentative attempt at advertizing tasks in LibreOffice beyond EasyHacks,
  thanks to Markus
- ongoing work on refactoring Vcls resource management on a separate branch (feature/vclref)
- cleanup of old unmaintained change proposals from gerrit patch review

Best,

Bjoern

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