Thunderbird/StatusMeetings/2019-11-12
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Thunderbird notes 2019-11-12 NOON PT (Pacific). For meeting time, previous notes and call-in details see https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird/StatusMeetings
Contents
Attendees
Jorg K, aleca, bittin (Luna), mkmelin, pmorris, Paenglab, marcoagpinto
MAIN FOCUS OF MEETING
Action items from last meetings
Current status / Announcements
Current Release Critical Issues
- tracking matrix: (broken) http://hg.mozilla.org/users/kent_caspia.com/drivertools/raw-file/default/bugtracking/index.html
- Tree issues:
- https://public.etherpad-mozilla.org/p/thunderbird-tree-status (somewhat abandoned)
- dashboard: https://mozilla.kewis.ch/treestatus/#/tb-treestatus
- c-c looking good - Perma-red/orange: https://mzl.la/2gS72WO - Disabled tests: https://mzl.la/2vZEjFe - Temp fixes: https://mzl.la/2iwY3dH
Releases
- Past
- TB 68.0 ESR (2019-08-27)
- TB 60.9 ESR (2019-09-06)
- TB 70 beta 1 (2019-09-09)
- TB 68.1 ESR (2019-09-11)
- TB 70 beta 2 (2019-09-22)
- TB 68.1.1 ESR (2019-09-25)
- TB 70 beta 3 (2019-10-04)
- TB 68.1.2 (2019-10-10)
- TB 70 beta 4 (2019-10-17)
- TB 68.2.0 (2019-10-22)
- TB 71 beta 1 (2019-10-24)
- TB 71 beta 2 (2019-10-31)
- TB 68.2.1 (2019-10-31)
- TB 68.2.2 (2019-11-07)
- Upcoming - https://wiki.mozilla.org/RapidRelease/Calendar#Future_branch_dates
- Branching: next branch to TB 73: 2019-12-02
- TB 71 beta 3 (need to repeat, starting today)
- TB 68.3 (after the branch date)
Round Table
Jorg K
- Bustage fixes and management, regression fixes, crash fixes, reviews and sheriffing.
- Prepared TB 71 beta 2 and 3, TB 68.2.1 and TB 68.2.2 ESR
- Landed:
- Managing autoconfing issues related to Hotmail/Outlook/O365 and 3rd-party add-ons
- bug 1504455 when creating a new row in the addressing widget, don't switch back to To:
- bug 1595255 Port recent devtool pref changes
- bug 1593280 Fix icons for message and URL attachments, remove setting defunct image attribute for attachment items
- bug 1593188 Port bug 1592209: Remove engineName from the modern configuration
- Port bug 1581537 Add some dom and layout properties files to the package manifest
- bug 1593546 Port bug 1525175: Adapt to changed ID of add-ons search box
- bug 1593207 make arrow-left.svg different from the new toolkit version
- bug 1593188 Port bug 1592014: Change the WebExtension parameters of the modern configuration to be an object
- bug 1588256 Port bug 1578624, part 11: add aSkipLoad parameter to getContentWindowOrOpenURI()
Geoff (not attending, 9 AM in NZ)
- Landed:
- bug 1591829 - Prevent unexpected save prompt in calendar tests
- bug 1592256 - Cache WebExtension message identifiers to improve lookup performance from O(n) to O(1)
- bug 1592536 - Fix contact age calculation in address book
- bug 1593879 - Select a new default calendar if the current one is removed
- bug 1584160 - Restore persisted state of all toolbars possibly affected by an overlay
- bug 1594246 - Remove mail.addr_book.newDirType pref for creating address books of a different type
- bug 1593347 - Fix LDAP address book search results
- bug 1595384 - Add toolbar to event dialog's feature list when opening the dialog
- bug 1594707 - In WebExtensions folder lookup, encode characters !'()* which aren't handled by encodeURIComponent
- bug 1594964 - Unify linting rules for test directories
- bug 1593544 - Stop loading plugin provider modules in Thunderbird
- In progress:
- bug 1525274 Support for raw message source in WebExtensions messages API
- bug 1595625 One directory object per address book
- bug 1590682 Try to improve the pass rate of event dialog tests
- bug 1590665 For recurring events, skip calculating occurrences if they're known to be outside the date range requested
- bug 1571681 [meta] convert mozmill to mochitests
mkmelin
- following the mozilla-central xul layout removal changes
- investigations into bug 1592258 (exchange accounts wrongly used in account setup)
- finished and published 78 roadmap on the maildev list: http://lists.thunderbird.net/pipermail/maildev_lists.thunderbird.net/2019-November/002024.html
ryanleesipes
- Enterprise docs created - gathering resources for enterprise such as good, helpful Group Policies
- Developer docs (DTN) updated with an up-to-date Hello World example. Also rearranged the documentation a bit so that it is easier to navigate.
- DTN improvements laid out on the GitHub project page. Alex recommended a WIP pull request
- Featured page screenshots incoming for new website
- Worked with add-on developers to encourage participation on documentation and WE Experiments
sancus
- some tweaks to stats.thunderbird.net in response to feedback
- site redesign
- wrote patch to pull blog posts onto website redesign
- reviewed several site redesign patches
- redesign is ready to go to stage
- screenshots?? Maybe an add-on.
- gmail auth bug and can’t update bug
- Fixed an issue with firewall not starting up on web servers, and some other minor website bugs
- started work on better add-on stats
- reviewed a few add-ons and themes
pmorris
- Landed
- bug 1572047 - [Meta] Use Prettier for formatting JavaScript in Thunderbird
- bug 1297426 - The todaypane's shown/hidden state should be separate for mail, event, and task tabs
- bug 1594581 - Remove old lightning-migration.xul overlay file
- bug 1508119 - Calendar/Lightning still uses XUL overlays internally
- bug 1582888 - Can't customize Calendar Toolbar (fixed by darktrojan in separate bug)
- In review:
- bug 1588831 - Mailing list functionality is not tested
- In process:
- bug 1592987 - Plan calendar UI for integration into Thunderbird
- bug 1493008 - Integrate Calendar into Thunderbird
- bug 1546606 - Refactor caldav request handling
- In the queue:
- bug 580896 - Mozilla sends invalid calendar sometime: event can contain both DTEND and DUR properties simultaneously.
- bug 1583595 - A dialog to handle opening .ics files
- bug 357480 - [meta] Opening or adding .ics files to calendar by double click
- bug 306495 - autodetect remote calendar type so user doesn't need to pick (with DNS or .well-known
wsmwk
aceman
Paenglab
rjl
- Landed
- Template:1593093 - Update from Wix 3.11 to Wix 3.14.0 (dev build) (port to c-c)
- Template:1569728 - compile clang with GCC 7 (port to c-c)
- Template:1590150 - Turn off ESR60 cron jobs
- Template:1593891 - Automatically set repo-update jobs to not build when run on comm-central
- In Progress
- Template:1518166 - Build and distribute the libotr, libgpg-error and libgcrypt libraries
- Template:1504004 - Update .taskcluster.yml to be more in-line with M-C
- Template:1464689 - Port bug 1457321: fix creation of built_in_addons.json
- Firefox CI migration
- Template:1595153 - [Thunderbird] Migration to Firefox-CI
- Template:1595628 - [firefox-ci] Daily builds not working due to missing scopes
- Various permissions issues affecting at least Jörg and myself
- Capacity issues with signing jobs are really slowing down the beta in progress, and last night's Daily. Still investigating, probably just need more than 2 workers
aleca
- Landed:
- bug 1590636 - Add manual config button on first panel of email wizard dialog
- bug 1590503 - Fix email wizard dialog resize on email typing
- bug 1591364 - Fix Address Book preferences always reverting to “Last used directory”
- In review:
- bug 1593122 - [autoconfig] Status area goes blank while running guess config
- In progress:
- bug 440377 - Recipient pills in messenger compose
- bug 1594367 - Convert manual config panel to html:table in email wizard
- bug 1583724 - Create Fluent migration recipe for the Preferences tab
- bug 1573678 - Implement the Preferences Tab Search Field
- Other:
- Responsive website completed and other improvements to blog loop
- Beta/Alpha channel download widget
- Initial UI mock-ups for OpenPGP implementation
Marco
Christopher
Kaie
Axel
- Something about a Slashdot headline
klaus/opto
- Webextensions API something something Javascript/Json
- Want to have docs for Javascript/Json Conversation for Thunderbird Addons on Docs Thunderbird (John will do it)
Question Time
- Expected timeline to answer needinfo and feedback for old bugs
- Bug 1593122 status?
Help Wanted
- segfault on startup randomly once a month with saved profile (mail, calendar, gmail, chat)
- new website browsers and devices testing: https://www-new.thunderbird.net/en-US/