Thunderbird/StatusMeetings/2008-06-10
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Thunderbird Meeting Details
- Tuesday, June 10, 16:30 UTC (9:30am Pacific, 12:30pm Eastern)
- How to dial-in
Agenda
Action Items
Open
- AI:clarkbw continuing to drive MailNews:Address Book New Card
- Getting started, mockups soon to come up post-discussion.
- Standard8 and dmose will help with this.
- AI:clarkbw create design on wiki for Experimental Message View
- Work with asuth on User:Andrew Sutherland/MailNews/GlobalDatabase pieces
- discussion thread started
- AI:emre begin work on imap preemptive message download feature
- AI:dmose Thunderbird 3 roadmap and planning with davida.
- AI:dmose split out into roadmap and beyond plus concrete stuff for alpha 2
- NOTE: specific mention needs to be made of quality goals
- AI:dmose split out into roadmap and beyond plus concrete stuff for alpha 2
- AI:nth10sd Gathering ideas on a proposed unit test infrastructure and come up with a newsgroup post.
Closed
Moving these to closed only because they aren't meant to be kept open
- AI:davida guided form doesn't allow version unsetting
- AI:davida bugzilla should _refuse_ unspecified version
- AI:davida version field UI in bugzilla should be clarified
- AI:davida should have "file bug" menu item in nightlies/alphas
- Standard8: carry over to next week for davida response
These were closed
- AI:asuth Post initial [User:Andrew Sutherland/MailNews/GlobalDatabase|global database schema/plan] on wiki and post to newsgroup for discussion
- Lightning-related.
- AI:nth10sd blogged about how to use DOM Inspector for Thunderbird to potentially help fix frontend bugs.
Thunderbird:Shredder a2
- Why? - Release goals TBD
- What
- Address book OS X bug 397811 (Completed)
- Bundle attachment?
- Progressmeter bug on OS X
- Auto-configuration, phase 1?
- Better Gmail/IMAP setup?
- Addressbook interface redesign
- Joshua's nsIAbCard patch (bug 413260)
- Autocomplete from XPFE to Toolkit
- Password manager from Wallet to Toolkit
- Move Default Profile Location to FF/SM equivalent
- xpcshell Unit tests passing bug 406227
- Performance for startup
- STEEL
- Things marked blocking-thunderbird3+ or its nominations
- Crashers
- move further on de-folderization of mail metaphors
- When
- Planned code freeze: July 8, 23:59 Pacific
QA Updates
- continuing with only session 2 staffed
- we've stall slightly in terms of numbers of bug changed, but that's to be expected on the cusp of summer and the trend of UNCO reduction is still very good
- two good prospects for coming on board to help Gary and Wayne
Roundtable
- Status Updates
- sipaq
- Can't make the call unfortunately. Have to catch a flight.
- Posted inquiry about l10n participation for TB3 pre-releases to mozilla.dev.l10n newsgroup. Got huge positive feedback, lots of localizers have pledged their support
- Current status:
- Languages with green tinderbox: cs, de, fr, it, ka, ko, lt, nb-NO, nl, nn-NO, pl, ru, sk, sv-SE, zh-CN
- Languages with orange tinderbox: be, es-ES, pa-IN, tr
- Languages with red tinderbox: af, bg, ca, da, el, en-GB, es-AR, eu, fi, ga-IE, gu-IN, he, hu, ja, ja-JP-mac, mk, mn, pt-PT, pt-BR, ro, sl, zh-TW
- Current TB tinderbox status available at http://www.babylonsounds.com/thunderbird/tb-l10n-tinderbox-trunk.html
- dmose
- prodded folks for review of Venkman lossage which landed in tree - bug 428848
- created new shared searches in bugzilla for 3.0a2 flags
- more submodule review discussion driving
- reviewed patch to make printing localize the Date header properly - bug 294356
- nth10sd
- Gathering ideas on proposed unit test infrastructure, will have a newsgroup post up over the next couple of days.
- Figured out how to use DOMi with Thunderbird.
- To try and fix a bug - bug 433107
- Did up a blog post on that as well.
- Bugday, triage activities, too many exact bug numbers to list.
- Standard8
- Various reviews
- Mac OS X Address Book
- Two problems have been filed: bug 437903 can't send to OS X mailing lists and bug 437908 filters don't work correctly for checks within OS X address book.
- Started work on bug 437975 which fixes a non-mork mailing list send problem, which will lead into fixing bug 437903
- I think I know the cause of bug 437908 will investigate this week
- Automated Testing
- fake SMTP server now in tree (bug 436847 after fixing problems due to the file format. Lots of documentation added to the idl files, also added a very basic auth test.
- Helped rkent debug an intermittent problem with bug 228675 - events were not always happening in the order expected.
- Autocomplete
- bug 438333 - Reworked how address book autocomplete selection works to make bug 370306 easier and tidier.
- bug 370306 - Progressed so that most of local address book search now works on the toolkit interfaces.
- Misc
- bug 437619 centralise and de-branch the address book results view UI code, which will lead onto fixing bug 438035 which is causing leaks (not freeing memory until shutdown) and unnecessary re-initialisations.
- asuth.
- (lots more moving!)
- Primarily global database design work, beginning of prototyping: User:Andrew_Sutherland/MailNews/GlobalDatabase
- Various commenting on/fusing comments from the experimental message view thread.
- bienvenu
- Worked on bug 436151 - basic code written, but now I need a server to test against.
- Helped jminta with his RDF-removal patches
- Sped up opening saved searches bug 436960
- Other code reviews, regression fixes, and support on #maildev
- Emre
- Made changes to the patch of bug 435153 - review pending
- Submitted patch for bug bug 413874
- Mainly worked on bug 436615
- Better Faster IMAP Feature 2 is updated with alternative implementation plans:
- Waiting Bienvenu to validate the information at section Existing Behavior, and How it works
- Planning to make a decision today to choose the implementation plan suits TB deadline best. Conference call after this meeting? bienvenu? others?
- Gozer
- Lots of initial MoCo setup for me (LDAP account, Blog, Planet, etc)
- Lots of reading about the existing Build/Release infrastructure
- Joined the #sysadmins cabal on IRC
- MoMo has it's own bugzilla product
- MoMo IT/BE has it's own bugzilla component
- I can now use it to track remaining IT work items
- I still need to fix the IT request form to deal with the now 2 IT groups
- Apple X-Serve is there, needs to be installed by MoCo IT
- SuperMicro Blades are there too, need some configuring.
- Prettied up my blog, ready to include on Planet Mozilla bug 438058
- This week, I am targetting the Thunderbird:Build#Build_Machines Machines as described, with some of rick's help
- clarkbw
- Finished work visa paperwork
- Chatted with several people about browser behavior, esp tabs
- Had to manually restore my Fedora account
- Restored feed on planet fedora
- Blogged about activity manager and interactive status bar mockups
- WONTFIXed bug 327693 — "Scam" message should show the button "Show Images"
- Commented on bug 297853 — 'unread columns need too much room'
- Created mockups and suggestions for bug 367698 — 'avoid pre-populating "(no subject)" text in subject box'
- Also in conjunction worked on bug 119684 — 'Remove the no subject warning'
- Reviewed patch in bug 273114 — 'When forwarding messages signature line is placed after forwarded message'
- Worked on bug 326076 with suggestions from MailNews:Account_Wizard:Email and reviewing MailNews Talk:Account Wizard:Email
- Created MailNews:Address_Book_New_Card_Inline for mockups of inline contact editing dialogs adapted from the original add contacts designs
- wsmwk
- made key contacts with some intl community about publicity for bugday
- made direct contact with 100+ recent bug reporters who have bugzilla privs (identified via bugzilla query/report) who don't appear to be currently involved in triage, inviting them to participate in QA.
- suggested mailnews triage ideas in m.d.a.seamonkey - SM bugs that may tie into next big mailnews improvements.
- rick
- nothing to add this week
- beckley
- Created a SeaMonkey patch for a filter bug I had fixed: bug 368218.
- Updated the Reply Quoting Selection patch with dmose's latest comments and some i18n issues: bug 23394.
- Finished off the auto open mailbox code when new messages arrive.
- Reworked our IMAP Refresh Folder List code with the latest Mozilla sources which have less RDF presence.
- sipaq
Attendees
bienvenu wsmwk standard8 asuth kairo dmose davida clarkbw rick nth10sd emre rkent beckley mkmelin