Thunderbird/StatusMeetings/2017-05-30

Thunderbird notes 2017-05-30 NOON PT (Pacific). For meeting time, previous notes and call-in details see https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird/StatusMeetings

Attendees

Jorg K, marcoagpinto, Paenglab, damiano, mkmelin, wayne,

Current status / Announcements

• Mozilla Thunderbird’s Future Home - https://blog.mozilla.org/thunderbird/2017/05/thunderbirds-future-home/ published

Current Release Critical Issues

• tracking matrix: (broken) http://hg.mozilla.org/users/kent_caspia.com/drivertools/raw-file/default/bugtracking/index.html
  • leftovers of nominated 38(?) : http://tinyurl.com/pgwflyg
• Tree issues:
  • https://public.etherpad-mozilla.org/p/thunderbird-tree-status (somewhat abandoned)
  • dashboard: https://mozilla.kewis.ch/treestatus/#/tb-treestatus
  • c-c looking fairly good- Perma-red/orange: https://mzl.la/2lrQTHC

blocking

Version 52

• tracking-tbesr52+tb52 flags: unfixed ?/+ - https://mzl.la/2pULYoU (tracking-tb52: https://mzl.la/2dVQYjg)

• most needed for ESR52:
  • Regressions waiting for TB 54 beta: https://mzl.la/2pQ8qvF and
  • bug 682474 - Lightning hides Thunderbird master password prompt + bug 1176399 - Multiple master password when GMail OAuth2 - FIXED needs beta 54, then uplift to c-esr52
  • Unfixed regressions: https://mzl.la/2pQmPYI among them
  • bug 1353625 - Thunderbird 52 prints blank pages - UNFIXED - see bug 1336657 for Firefox.
  •  ?unclear how critical bug 1346649 - Ignore scaling Print option working opposite of expected on Mac OSX - UNFIXED

Releases

• Past
  • 45.8.0 (2017-03-07)
  • 52.0beta 4 (2017-02-28)
  • 53.0b1 (2017-04-10)
  • 52.0 ESR (2017-04-04)
  • 52.0.1 ESR (2017-04-14)
  • 53.0b2 (2017-04-19)
  • 52.1.0 ESR (2017-04-30) (rush job for gmail problem)
  • 52.1.1 ESR (2017-05-15 - plan to enable automatic updates from 45.x)
  • 54.0b1 (2017-05-19)
  • 54.0b2 (2017-05-25)

• Upcoming - https://wiki.mozilla.org/RapidRelease/Calendar#Future_branch_dates
  • next branch: 2017-06-12
  • 54.0b3 (??)

Lightning

Past releases:

• 4.7.8 (bundled)
• 5.4 (TB 52 ESR)

Upcoming releases:

• • 52.2 ESR (when ?)

Round Table

Jorg K

• Landed:
  • bug 1365319 Bustage-fix (plugins allowed in messages)
  • bug 1366196 Regression: Simple MAPI forced to HTML
  • bug 1353916 Problem with master password
  • bug 1365882 Bustage-fix (caused be remove of old download manager code)
  • bug 1367707 Proxy follow-up: fix "load rest of message"
  • bug 1368042 Bustage-fix (check status, [must_use] in PSM IDL)
  • bug 1367252 Bustage-fix (Changed argument list of CertVerifier::VerifyCert())
• Awaiting review:
  • bug 1364723 Regression: Newsgroups, link: "Click here to remove all expired articles" stopped working
  • bug 1368646 Bustage-fix Port nsSemanticUnitScanner to mailnews
• Ongoing:
  • bug 1363281 Port "Replace uconv with encoding_rs" to mailnews
  • bug 1342745 Fix leaks in IMAP/Gloda
  • bug 1176748 Outlook import crash

sancus

• bug 1366892 PR up for removing earlybird from channels page.
  • https://github.com/mozilla/bedrock/pull/4863

• Web page is coming along, download buttons remaining big piece:
  • https://stage.thunderbird.net/en-US/
  • https://stage.thunderbird.net/en-US/features
  • https://stage.thunderbird.net/de/ etc.
  • https://github.com/thundernest/thunderbird-website if you want to track progress.

Help Wanted

• 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