Thunderbird/StatusMeetings/2008-09-02
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Thunderbird Meeting Details
- Tuesday, Sept 2, 16:30 UTC (9:30am Pacific, 12:30pm Eastern)
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Agenda
- Who's taking minutes: Gozer
Action Items
Open
- davida: file a bug on getting an announcements feed going on]
- everyone: look for delight bugs for the next release, put [delight] in status whiteboard
Closed
- dmose: will send out email scheduling drivers meeting for 9:30 Thursday
- davida: file a bug on getting a planet.mozillamessaging.com bug 449252
Thunderbird:Shredder a2
- Post Mortem took too long to schedule, cancelled
- Next time around, include it in the release schedule
Thunderbird 3
- lots of triage has happened; status = ?
- some question about use of Target-Milestone field
- action item(dmose): email drivers to schedule meeting this week
Thunderbird:Thunderbird 3.0b1
- One week to planned code freeze (9th September)
- Today is planned string freeze for 3.0b1 (2nd September)
- wsmwk is the QA lead of Beta 1
- Standard8 is the release driver
- Ended up pushing the schedule by 2 weeks:
- Three week to planned code freeze (23th September)
- Two week planned string freeze for 3.0b1 (16th September)
The schedule will be updated accordingly
L10N builds/String Freeze
- L10N builds:
- SeaMonkey and Firefox now have some level of L10N builds for testers
- Firefox has compare-locales and L10N dashboard
- Thunderbird potentially has compare-locales once editor/ui moves (next couple of days)
- devmo (L10n on Mercurial) now has instructions for comm-central as well as mozilla-central.
- Gozer will adapt SeaMonkey's L10N buildbot config to our own
- String Freeze - Main bugs:
- Account Configuration bug 422814
- No reviews posted yet
- might be ready in a week -- DavidA
- Password Manager bug 239131
- Still a lot of work to do.
- At least one good week -- Standard8
- Gloda bug 450494
- davida: relatively few strings, need to be concerned about UI for upgrading
- Inline card dialog bug 450724 patches:
- Mechanics: awaiting clarkbw's approval
- Inline Edit dialog: requested reviews (philor, clarkbw), but need to resolve one issue
- Add-on-click: patches ready, awaiting reviews
- Star UI: prototyped, need to do proper version.
- Improved Message Reader View bug 449691
- No patches for review yet. Don't know how many strings are to be changed.
- Offline Data Storage Pref Screen bug 369096 (??)
- Account Configuration bug 422814
Blockers / Wanted Bugs
- Blockers/Wanted:
- blocking-thunderbird3.0b1+: 19
- TB 3.0b1 - blocking: 9
- Note: spread across two lists, some dups, not all of these are hard-blockers.
- TB 3.0b1 - wanted: 14
- Proposed Blockers:
- Fixed:
- 3 blockers with no owner:
- bug 429118 Thunderbird inline spell check broken
- This has a proposal for fixing it, needs someone to implement/test
- bug 408370 STEEL
- bug 437056 run a message filter on a folder - "choose this folder" option missing, can't run on folders with subfolders
- Needs an updated patch.
- bug 452832 drag and drop multiple messages between folders fails (moves only one)
- Has suggested fix
- bug 429118 Thunderbird inline spell check broken
- High priority bugs not referenced above:
- bug 360648 TB toolkit autocomplete migration
- Waiting on one review from Beltzner
- LDAP code needs doing.
- bug 360648 TB toolkit autocomplete migration
QA Updates
- good bugday last week, such that NEW and UNCONFIRMED are almost touching
- last week focus began on Patch Love
- last bug comment less than 800 days ago at 116 bugs, down by 11 from 127 bugs
- all bugs at 229 bugs, down by 12 from 241 bugs
- all patches that require string changes at 45 bugs, down by 8 from 53 bugs)
- Discussions occurring in m.d.planning about improving Bugzilla Workflow and general Bugzilla Improvements (a sub-topic of BMO Reorg Phase 2)
Roundtable
Status Updates
davida
dmose
- message view work
- reviewed switch of email User-Agent header to use the full Gecko user-agent (bug 230182)
- started work to try and make chromebug usable in tb
- bug triage & driving work (2.0.0.17 approvals, etc.)
nth10sd
- More bug triage, bugdays etc.
- +1 to jcranmer's post on mozilla.dev.planning about TB bug number stats..
- Yes, UNCO bug numbers are still going down... :)
- Post-meeting edit: Spread Thunderbird first envisioned on October 3rd 2004. :D
- Back then, Firefox was just 0.10.1, and Thunderbird, 0.8
jcranmer
- Updated IMAP fakeserver patch, currently tracking down problems
- AB refactoring awaiting dmose's review
- bug 311774 (one of 2 major news unread bugs) complete except for tests
Standard8
- Reviews & Driving
- Build
- bug 451981 Added a package-compare target and got gozer to hook it up to tinderboxes - we can now reasonably easily see if we're missing packaging items into the windows build (useful for a pre-release check).
- bug 453110 Started updating the packaging file...
- L10N
- Added to the instruction pages for L10N builds.
- bug 445146 Moving editor/ui to comm-central.
- Password Manager
- bug 419595 nsLDAPURL update (still needs one more update)
- Inline Edit Card Dialog
- bug 452614 Provide nsIAbCard::hasEmailAddress
- bug 453301 Provide a function to add a single contact to the collected address book.
- bug 450724 Three patches now posted, last one to actually add the star to be done.
- Misc
- bug 451257 Composing a message after the contacts sidebar was closed sometimes crashes Thunderbird.
- bug 452419 Message Header display shouldn't get the show references pref for each item of the header displayed.
asuth
- (light week)
- first batch of gloda unit tests basically ready; need to alter code to not use settimeout in the unit test case...
- got "exptoolbar" working with minimal required changes to thunderbird (just need toolkit autocomplete turned on). Gloda now feeds a search db view, works quite nicely. (This is the "bubble" stuff).
bienvenu
- Reviews and Driving
- fix truncated message pop3 download for global inbox, bug 450649
- Continued work on auto config;
- maintain kewyords on imap detach/delete if server supports keywords, bug 440366
- fix edit cut/copy/paste/delete menu items bug 448326
- fix crash in debug builds downloading pop3 mail into global inbox, bug 452521
- fix offline tag change playback bug 141606
emre
- Worked on
- bug 436615: submitted, in review process
- bug 452615: submitted, in review process
- Working on
- bug 440794: Async send operation
- bug 439089: Auto-compacting
gozer
- The Calendar folks have a few test accounts on our test Zimbra server
- Got package-compare running on the nightlies bug 451981
- OSX buildsymbols should now be complete and cover universal binaries bug 448616
- Started testing Lightning/gdata comm-central build setup
- Mock start page server is up and running
- Need to setup staging/prod www infrastructure
- davida: How does it currently work ?
- Ready to switch over www.mozillamessaging.com
- We are running our own e-mail now
- Nobody should have noticed!
- Good side-effect is that our production blades are now in a full HA config
- Still need to get MoCo's to set themselves up as our secondary MXes
- Real-life disruptions should be over
clarkbw
- A bunch of Preferences Bug work w/ Patches
- User:Clarkbw/Preferences
- bug 452909 — remove the shredder start page preference from the general tab
- bug 452890 — move System Defaults from General to Advanced -> General
- bug 452711 — use firefox default font chooser for display
- bug 451620 — remove the Advanced Preference for Connection timeout
- Started on
- Getting back to
- bug 123440 — annoying connection error dialogs
- bug 231654 — Key combos wrt folder pane
- bug 271589 — popups accumulate if they are not canceled
- Thunderbird:Calendar Integration
wsmwk
- Triaged all bugs with patches mscott r? and sr? - all bugs have been touched or patch owner contacted. Was ~30-35 reviews, now down to 13 bugs in the review list
- Created and kicked off Patch Love
- Bugday and triage
- Marked [delight] bugs
beckley
- My filter only selected messages in a mailbox was reviewed and checked in bug 444209
- My redirect feature was accepted and checked in bug 359226
- Commented on how new message notification works in Classic Eudora bug 11040
- Reviewed Sid's Vista Search Integration patch bug 430614
- A new hg repository for Penelope has been created, and now just needs to be populated with the code in CVS bug 451402
- Fixed a build problem for DOM Inspector when working with read-only source code setups bug 452851
- Helped review some code for some Penelope devs submitting bugs bug 451438
- Will be fixing a filter import bug this week for beta 1 bug 432851
KaiRo
- Ported some build system fixes to comm-central bug 452504
- Fixed relative l10n-base dir (bug 452760), make install (bug 452962), basic building of the Qt port (bug 450957), and autoconf 2.13 detection (bug 450967) - no need to declare the AUTOCONF environment variable with the usual binary names any more, not even on Debian or ubuntu.
- Did some cleanup of old code from the XPFE era
- Got most of the things to run for creating SeaMonkey L10n builds with out buildbots, porting this to Thunderbird buildbots configs should be easy
rkent
rebron
- Put together marketing roadmap
- Working on web site redesign, wrapped up the rfp.
- Put plan for together for SpreadThunderbird.
- Got the pr plan reviewed, pr activities in motion.
- Working on start page content.
mkmelin
- Working on bug 231654 - make delete normally only apply to the threadpane - too easy to accidentally delete folder
- bug 234665 [avaiting review] - Delete button should re-text to "Undelete" when a deleted message is selected
- bug 305089 [avaiting review] - Don't mark as scam any mail composed by user (Drafts, Templates, Sent, Outbox folders)
- bug 452661 - the scam detector doesn't work anymore
Attendees
gozer, dmose, sipaq, beckley, bienvenu, nth10sd, wsmwk, emre, asuth, clarkbw, KaiRo, rebron, Standard8