Thunderbird/StatusMeetings/2019-11-26

Thunderbird notes 2019-11-26 NOON PT (Pacific). For meeting time, previous notes and call-in details see https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird/StatusMeetings

Attendees

Jorg K, aleca, bittin (Luna), mkmelin, pmorris, Paenglab, marcoagpinto, aleca, mkmelin, khushil, Christopher, sancus, wsmwk

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 (PTO)

• Bustage fixes and management, regression fixes, crash fixes, reviews and sheriffing.
• Prepared TB 71 beta 4 and TB 68.3 ESR
• Landed:
  • bug 1593629 Make OK button active when filling in the anchor name in EdNamedAnchorProps.xul
  • bug 1588500 Re-enable test-phishing-bar.js on Linux and Windows
  • bug 1597095 Port bug 1581762: Move minidump-analyzer packaging
  • Port bug 1592111 s/BlockUntilLoadableRootsLoaded/BlockUntilLoadableCertsLoaded/
  • bug 1593188 Port bug 1595471: More tweaks to engines.json

Geoff (not attending, 9 AM in NZ)

• Landed:
  • bug 1364167 - When repairing a folder only re-display it if it is the current one
  • bug 1590682 - Convert troublesome parts of calendar tests to real mochitest code
  • bug 1595649 - Fix disabling auto-completion on a per-directory basis
  • bug 1595625 - Create only one shared directory object per address book
  • bug 1597163 - Cache address book lists and cards
  • bug 1592288 - Handle bad data in WebExt API message handling
  • bug 1588516 - Find calendar AppMenu buttons in the palette when not in the toolbar
  • bug 1595059 - Prevent copying an address book card without a UID, and fix copying cards from one book to another
  • bug 1599010 - Clean up displayed folder if the last account is removed

• In progress:
  • Tree management in Jorg’s absence
  • 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

• converted some deprecated xul attribute usages (some align values, and mousethrough attribute)
• css adjustments due to xul layout removals
• removed <stringbundleset>
• regression fixing (for the scam detection)
• adjusting file names due to toolkit xul->xhtml conversions
• have a script to move more css to shared - did a bug to test that out
• OAuth2 modernization
• sorting out the exchange situation
• a bunch of issues in accountsetup

ryanleesipes

• Featured page screenshots for new website PR.
• Blog permissions for new users (authors)
• Preparing for administrative changes for TB: website changes, donation site changes, etc.
• Been looking at GPO and enterprise documentation, could use some help.
• EOY Donation campaign, need to coordinate with some folks in here.
• Contribution points, areas where MailExtension Add-ons will be able to stick stuff.
• Add-on coordination

sancus

• Many fixes and reviews to website design, copy, and code.
  • Screenshots/nightly download button/target _blank patch/l10n code/etc.
• Various admin work and server side maintenance work on ATN and website servers.
• New website redesign going to stage today
• Still working on stats from services.addons.thunderbird.net

pmorris

• Landed
  • bug 1588831 - Mailing list functionality is not tested
  • bug 1596635 - Move some CSS overlay directives from jar.mn files to XUL files

• In review:

(nothing in review currently)

• In process:
  • bug 1597596 - Explore converting calendar to a system add-on
  • 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 1599212 - Remove or otherwise de-overlay the XUL overlay files related to seamonkey/suite
  • 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

rjl

• Landed
  • bug 1593093 - Update from Wix 3.11 to Wix 3.14.0 (dev build) (port to c-c)
  • bug 1569728 - compile clang with GCC 7 (port to c-c)
  • bug 1590150 - Turn off ESR60 cron jobs
  • bug 1593891 - Automatically set repo-update jobs to not build when run on comm-central

• In Progress
  • bug 1518166 - Build and distribute the libotr, libgpg-error and libgcrypt libraries
  • bug 1504004 - Update .taskcluster.yml to be more in-line with M-C
  • bug 1464689 - Port bug 1457321: fix creation of built_in_addons.json

• Firefox CI migration
  • bug 1595153 - [Thunderbird] Migration to Firefox-CI
  • bug 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:

• In review:

• In progress:
  • bug 440377 - Recipient pills in messenger compose
  • bug 1593122 - [autoconfig] Status area goes blank while running guess config

• Other:
  • UI mockups for calendar integration (core/system-addon)

Khushil

• Landed:

• In review:

• In progress:

• Other:

Axel

• Something about a Slashdot headline

Help Wanted

• Test the recipient pills
  • Try build: https://treeherder.mozilla.org/#/jobs?repo=try-comm-central&revision=16ba5865ee16850d0f618d7e49c900a83ac6b126
  • Bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=440377