Thunderbird/StatusMeetings/2016-01-12

wmlThunderbird notes 2016-01-12. NOON PT (Pacific). For meeting time, previous notes and call-in details see https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird/StatusMeetings

Attendees

• MakeMyDay, rkent, Jorg K, Marco A.G. Pinto, mkmelin, ba, Pegasus, jcranmer

MAIN FOCUS OF MEETING

• version 45
• governance, futures
• builds
• bug bug 1211160 - Why is updates with calendar add-on messing with Thunderbird?

Action items from last meetings

• Thunderbird Council reorganization: we'll discuss this in the Council directly and do some reorganization. This is not a forever governance plan, but we need to be practical given the many demands of the moment.
• we should really clean up the module owners and peers at https://wiki.mozilla.org/Modules/MailNews_Core and https://wiki.mozilla.org/Modules/Thunderbird. Candidates for removal: Bienvenu, standard8, sid0, JosiahOne.

Current status / Announcements

• Etherpads see list of names at https://public.etherpad-mozilla.org/p/thunderbird and https://public.etherpad-mozilla.org/p/calendar
• https://public.etherpad-mozilla.org/p/thunderbird38-support-issues for version 38 ESR issues
• Tree issues: https://public.etherpad-mozilla.org/p/thunderbird-tree-status
  • Please help green up the tree - including not only c-c but also esr38, beta, and aurora
    • Please be aggressive filing bugs, and fixing what you can, so dev checkins can occur when patches become available.
    • If a bug breaks nightly or beta build or tests, please make severity=blocker
    • Please prioritize reviews/feedback requests in your queue that are tree issues!
• Thunderbird 45: string freeze 2015-12-14, interface freeze later (that's me demanding a concession like last year).

Current Release Critical Issues

Leave critical bugs here until confirmed fixed. If confirmed, then remove.

• tracking-tb38 flags: approved(+)+unfixed in ESR: http://mzl.la/1LDrkxP nominated(?): http://tinyurl.com/pgwflyg

blocking

• 38.3.1 bug 1211160 calendar 4.0.3.1 is a workaround for 38.3.0 — Thunderbird Version 38.3 Buttons not working menu items // bug 1211291 - Folders are visible, but messages are not. (?related to bug 1211358 lightning chrome.manifest not updated in 38.3.0 ?)
• Pegasus will test the procedure given at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1211160#c49 in one of his production environments.

• Fixed - bug 1183490 - (dataloss) New emails do not adhere to sort by order received
  • Plan is to understand issues in converting completely to nextKey = ++lastKey for non-IMAP, then plan how much to implement for 38.3.0 A simple fix of the dataloss is probable. I have a try patch that does the nextKey = ++lastKey that works, now I need to think about patch for 38 (bug 1202105 needs to go to trunk and 38)
  • update 2015-10-20, patches have been posted but waiting for reviews for 2 weeks (aceman will look at those)
  • update 2015-11-17, review done 11-14, need to update and land.

(I think this bug is done and can be removed from here)

important (but not top critical)

• status TBD - bug 1182629 - update to 38.1.0 from 38.0.1 re-enables disabled Lightning
• status TBD - bug 1176399 - Multiple master password when GMail OAuth2 is enabled
• status TBD - bug 1176748 - fix main thread proxies to the migration code (jorgk and m_kato have done such fixes in the past)
• filelink, proxy,
• topcrash bug 1149287 is ** 31% of our crashes** - see below

Version 45

• tracking-tb45 flags: unfixed ?/+ - http://mzl.la/1PMzNiK
• Items that may need to be checked and tested: gtk3, windows 10, windows 64bit?
• hardware acceleration - not looking promising (no changes / no testing in recent months)
• jsaccount should come in aurora

Releases

• Past
  • 42.0b2 2015-10-13 (42.0b1 abandoned)
  • 42.0b3 ~2015-09-23 (skipped)
  • 38.4.0 2015-11-25 (quite late) - many release notes issues HOWEVER, mostly uneventful with regard to Lightning updates. YAY!
  • 38.5.0
  • 38.5.1
  • 43.0b1

• Upcoming - https://wiki.mozilla.org/RapidRelease/Calendar#Future_branch_dates
  • 44.0b1 (building in progress)
  • 45.0b1
  • 38.6.0

Lightning

Past releases:

• 4.0.1.2 - bug 1182264, 4.0.2.1 - bug 1194997
• 4.0.3, 4.0.3.1 (no changes compared to 4.0.2.1)

Upcoming releases:

• 4.0.4 - bug 1215969
• 4.7.0 - bug 1225778 (TB 45)

Round Table

Jorg K

• Landed:
  • bug 1232735 - Editable From with RFC 2047 encoded From
  • bug 1235506 - Fixed 353 errors in en-US dictionary
• Awaiting review:
  • bug 1175839 - JSMime regression, square brackets not quoted correctly.
  • bug 1231917 - funny artefacts when replying to a saved message.
  • bug 1235205 - dictionary selection problem.
• Triaged a heap of "Core::Spelling Checker" bugs with the aim to close bugs for fixed problems and get an idea of what's still broken.
• Ongoing:
  • Message encoding problem: bug 597369, Override charset carried over to the next message processed.
  • More en-US dictionary clean-up: bug 301712, bug 1238031
  • Investigating why drafts folder gets corrupted every few months bug 1216914

Question Time

When will we get 64 bit Thunderbird builds on Windows. They are built right now for Daily, for example: http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/thunderbird/nightly/2015/12/2015-12-15-03-02-04-comm-central/thunderbird-46.0a1.en-US.win64.installer.exe

Other

Friends of the tree

Action Items

Help Wanted

• Support 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
• Accessibility lead
• Person comfortable (not necessarily technical experts) with Core type issues. Example, graphics to guide bug 1195947 Thunderbird hardware acceleration (HWA) issues to be resolved