Thunderbird/StatusMeetings/2015-07-28
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Thunderbird meeting notes 2015-07-28. NOON PT (Pacific). Check https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird/StatusMeetings for meeting time conversion, previous meeting notes and call-in details
Contents
Attendees
wsmwk, fallen, paenglab, sshagarwal, mkmelin, florian, makemyday
Action items from last meetings
- asked releng to enable updates ot 38.1.0 for 31.* users
Friends of the tree
Current status and discussions
- use https://thunderbird.etherpad.mozilla.org/thunderbird38-support-issues to communicate version 38 issues
Critical Issues
Leave critical bugs here until confirmed fixed. If confirmed, then remove.
- see tb38 etherpad https://thunderbird.etherpad.mozilla.org/thunderbird38-support-issues
- tracking-tb38 flags - approved(+)+unfixed in ESR: http://mzl.la/1LDrkxP nominated(?): http://tinyurl.com/pgwflyg
- status TBD bug 1176399 Multiple requests for master password when GMail OAuth2 is enabled
- Someone needs to add additional main thread proxies to the migration code.
- bug 1131879 - Disable hardware acceleration (HWA) is back on the table
removing from critical list/fixed:
- status TBD bug 1174797 Add a cookie exception for GMail OAuth
Releases
- Past
- 38.0.1 nominally shipped 2015-06-12
- 38.1.0 shipped 2015-07-10
- 31.8.0 shipped 2015-07-17
- Upcoming
- 40.0beta almost done (skipping 39.0b)
- 38.2.0 (~ 2015-08-10)
- 41.0beta (~ 2015-08-10)
Lightning
Past releases:
- 4.0.1.2 - due to bug 1182264
Upcoming releases:
- 4.0.1.3 - due to bug 1187072 and possibly bug 1187624.
- 4.0.2 - tracking in bug 1180416
Updates:
- (do we still need this??) As underpass has pointed out repeatedly (thanks for your patience!) , we need to rewrite / heavily modify the lightning articles on support.mozilla.org. let me know irc: rolandtanglao on #tb-support-crew or rtanglao AT mozilla.com OR simply start editing the articles
- We've doubled our active daily users
Round Table
wsmwk
- focus on 38.* updates and stabilitiy
- HWA issues bug 1131879
- new topcrash bug 1187764 mozilla::layers::SyncObjectD3D11::FinalizeFrame()
- new topcrashes (win7) DrawingContext::FillRectangle(D2D_RECT_F const*, ID2D1Brush*), win8/8.1 D2DDeviceContextBase<T>::FillRectangle(D2D_RECT_F const*, ID2D1Brush*)
- proxy crashes - need to reblocklist?
- emailed/IRCed trackerbird addon author abustany about version 38 topcrash on opensuse
- everything in SVN/php needs to move to Bedrock before end of Q3 deadline bug 836461
clokep
- Met with Florian and aleth last week in France:
- Instantbird will now use Gecko version numbering
- "Chat Core" component now has Instantbird 42 (and 43 and 44) as target versions. These match Thunderbird 42 / 43 /44.
- We will not go back and fix things from previous periods, but I did fix anything committed since the 41 merge.
- Instantbird will now use Gecko version numbering
- Skype landed (preffed off! flip chat.prpls.prpl-skype.disable) with text-chat only
- Test it if you use Skype, it's missing a lot of features still: bug 953999
- The next part of nhnt11's GSoC project from *last year* landed! (Logs are now split across days in a saner fashion: bug 1025522)
- Lots of XMPP fixes (including fixing issues when connecting to Slack)
Jorg K (won't attend)
- bug 209189 - C-C: shift delete, undo -> corruption, finished with Kent's help
- bug 368915 - C-C: change language in subject, waiting for Magnus.
- bug 345852 - M-C: persdict stuff for Firefox, landed.
- bug 772796 - M-C: Editor destroys preformatting, TB papercut, under investigation.
sshagarwal
- On the last stage of completing demo protocol.
- Stuck at Folder pane issue for quite a very long time now.
Question Time
When is council elections? --> In a couple months. 1 year after initial team.
Support team
Other
- PLEASE PUT THE NEXT MEETING IN YOUR (LIGHTNING) CALENDAR
- Note - meeting notes must be copied from etherpad to wiki before 5AM CET next day so that they will go public in the meeting notes blog.
Action Items
- Get release documentation into wiki
Help Wanted
- Support lead
- Accessibility lead
- Revise lightning articles on SUMO: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/search/advanced?q=lightning&language=en-US&category=10&category=20&product=thunderbird&sortby_documents=relevance&a=1&w=1 - to query articles that needs change: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/contributors/kb-overview?product=thunderbird