Thunderbird/StatusMeetings/2008-09-02

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Thunderbird Meeting Details

• Tuesday, Sept 2, 16:30 UTC (9:30am Pacific, 12:30pm Eastern)
• How to dial-in

Agenda

• Who's taking minutes?

Action Items

Open

• davida: file a bug on getting an announcements feed going on
• davida: file a bug on getting a planet.mozillamessaging.com (Isn't that bug 449252 ? -- gozer)
• everyone: look for delight bugs for the next release, put [delight] in status whiteboard

Closed

• dmose: will send out email scheduling drivers meeting for 9:30 Thursday

Thunderbird:Shredder a2

• Post Mortem needs scheduling
  • who needs to be there? davida, wswmk, nthomas, gozer, standard8, emre, dmose, ____?
  • nthomas unavailability unknown
  • davida to send out email, hopefully this week

Thunderbird 3

• lots of triage has happened; status = ?
• some question about use of Target-Milestone field
• action item(dmose): email drivers to schedule meeting this week

Thunderbird:Thunderbird 3.0b1

• One week to planned code freeze (9th September)
• Today is planned string freeze for 3.0b1 (2nd September)

• wsmwk is the QA lead of Beta 1
• Standard8 is the release driver
• 3.0b1 Tracking Document

L10N builds/String Freeze

• L10N builds:
  • SeaMonkey and Firefox now have some level of L10N builds for testers
  • Firefox has compare-locales and L10N dashboard
  • Thunderbird potentially has compare-locales once editor/ui moves (next couple of days)
  • devmo (L10n on Mercurial) now has instructions for comm-central as well as mozilla-central.

• String Freeze - Main bugs:
  • Account Configuration bug 422814
    • No reviews posted yet
  • Password Manager bug 239131
    • Still a lot of work to do.
  • Gloda bug 450494
    • davida: relatively few strings, need to be concerned about UI for upgrading
  • Inline card dialog bug 450724 patches:
    1. Mechanics: awaiting clarkbw's approval
    2. Inline Edit dialog: requested reviews (philor, clarkbw), but need to resolve one issue
    3. Add-on-click: patches ready, awaiting reviews
    4. Star UI: prototyped, need to do proper version.
  • Improved Message Reader View bug 449691
    • No patches for review yet. Don't know how many strings are to be changed.

Blockers / Wanted Bugs

• Blockers/Wanted:
  • blocking-thunderbird3.0b1+: 19
  • TB 3.0b1 - blocking: 9
    • Note: spread across two lists, some dups, not all of these are hard-blockers.
  • TB 3.0b1 - wanted: 14
• Proposed Blockers:

• Fixed:
  • blocking-thunderbird3.0b1+: 8
  • TB 3.0b1 - blocking: 11
  • TB 3.0b1 - wanted: 6

• 3 blockers with no owner:
  • bug 429118 Thunderbird inline spell check broken
    • This has a proposal for fixing it, needs someone to implement/test
  • bug 408370 STEEL
  • bug 437056 run a message filter on a folder - "choose this folder" option missing, can't run on folders with subfolders
    • Needs an updated patch.
  • bug 452832 drag and drop multiple messages between folders fails (moves only one)
    • Has suggested fix
• High priority bugs not referenced above:
  • bug 360648 TB toolkit autocomplete migration
    • Waiting on one review from Beltzner
    • LDAP code needs doing.

Roundtable

Status Updates

dmose

• message view work
• reviewed switch of email User-Agent header to use the full Gecko user-agent (bug 230182)
• started work to try and make chromebug usable in tb
• bug triage & driving work (2.0.0.17 approvals, etc.)

nth10sd

• More bug triage, bugdays etc.
• +1 to jcranmer's post on mozilla.dev.planning about TB bug number stats..
• Yes, UNCO bug numbers are still going down... :)

jcranmer

• Updated IMAP fakeserver patch, currently tracking down problems
• AB refactoring awaiting dmose's review
• bug 311774 (one of 2 major news unread bugs) complete except for tests

Standard8

• Reviews & Driving
• Build
  • bug 451981 Added a package-compare target and got gozer to hook it up to tinderboxes - we can now reasonably easily see if we're missing packaging items into the windows build (useful for a pre-release check).
  • bug 453110 Started updating the packaging file...
• L10N
  • Added to the instruction pages for L10N builds.
  • bug 445146 Moving editor/ui to comm-central.
• Password Manager
  • bug 419595 nsLDAPURL update (still needs one more update)
• Inline Edit Card Dialog
  • bug 452614 Provide nsIAbCard::hasEmailAddress
  • bug 453301 Provide a function to add a single contact to the collected address book.
  • bug 450724 Three patches now posted, last one to actually add the star to be done.
• Misc
  • bug 451257 Composing a message after the contacts sidebar was closed sometimes crashes Thunderbird.
  • bug 452419 Message Header display shouldn't get the show references pref for each item of the header displayed.

bienvenu

• Reviews and Driving
• fix truncated message pop3 download for global inbox, bug 450649
• Continued work on auto config;
• maintain kewyords on imap detach/delete if server supports keywords, bug 440366
• fix edit cut/copy/paste/delete menu items bug 448326
• fix crash in debug builds downloading pop3 mail into global inbox, bug 452521
• fix offline tag change playback bug 141606

gozer

• The Calendar folks have a few test accounts on our test Zimbra server
• Got package-compare running on the nightlies bug 451981
• OSX buildsymbols should now be complete and cover universal binaries bug 448616
• Started testing Lightning/gdata comm-central build setup
• Mock start page server is up and running
• Need to setup staging/prod www infrastructure
  • davida: How does it currently work ?
  • Ready to switch over www.mozillamessaging.com
• We are running our own e-mail now
  • Nobody should have noticed!
  • Good side-effect is that our production blades are now in a full HA config
  • Still need to get MoCo's to set themselves up as our secondary MXes
• Real-life disruptions should be over

wsmwk

• Triaged all bugs with patches mscott r? and sr? - all bugs have been touched or patch owner contacted. Was ~30-35 reviews, now down to 13 bugs in the review list
• Created and kicked off Patch Love
• Bugday and triage

rebron

• Put together marketing roadmap
• Working on web site redesign, wrapped up the rfp.
• Put plan for together for SpreadFirefox.
• Got the pr plan reviewed, pr activities in motion.
• Working on start page content.