Thunderbird/StatusMeetings/2008-09-30

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Thunderbird Meeting Details

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

Agenda

• Who's taking minutes?
• davida brought up the idea of having a schedule for minute taking
  • How is the sheriff shedule made ?

Action Items

Open

• davida: reschedule meeting, to Wednesdays? - calendar folk will be on future status calls
  • See the newsgroup post if you haven't already.

Thunderbird:Thunderbird 3.0b1

• Naming (dmose)
• Code freeze Ongoing.
• 26 Locales ready to go.
• gozer doing dry-run

• 3.0b1 Tracking Document
  • Release will be manual, just like Firefox 3.1a1 & 3.1a2
• Standard8 is the release driver
• wsmwk is the QA lead of Beta 1

Blockers / Wanted Bugs

• Blockers/Wanted:
  • TB 3.0b1 - blocking: 6 (4 post freeze)
  • Not tracked in lists (core):
    • bug 314160 Typing focus lost when using any Midas buttons/selects except text color/hightlight color
      • Mac only, has patch, but no reviews yet.
  • TB 3.0b1 - wanted: 8
• Proposed Blockers (b1): None
• Proposed Blockers (b? + milestone): 1

• Fixed:
  • blocking-thunderbird3.0b1+: 12
  • TB 3.0b1 - blocking: 35
  • TB 3.0b1 - wanted: 14

Thunderbird 3

• Draft Thunderbird:Thunderbird3:DevRoadmap
• More 3.0 high-level work this week

QA Updates

• crash stats looking better, for example a good list in 3.0a2 top crashes. However, almost zero 3.0b1pre crashes.
  • (any status changed since last week?) The OSX/Intel problems can most likely worked around for the RC, by simply running dump_symbols repeatedly until it runs once without failing.
• bugday ran last week and this week scheduled for 10-02 - continuing focus on trunk bugs. chart
• new public mailing list for making announcements to the testing community thunderbird-testers

Roundtable

Status Updates

dmose

• helped track down flagState assertion (bug 455963)
• posted basic assertion fix for nsIMAPGenericParser to bug 383815
• driving work

reviews:

• fix to parse IMAP [NOMODSEQ] correctly and flagState assertion (bug 455963)
• star UI changes (bug 450724)
• expose IMAP auto sync manager interface to monitor/cancel (bug 45812)
• fix for losing track of messages on IMAP servers with CONDSTORE (bug 456601)
• more message reader polish fixes for bug 455801
• new/edit card star tooltip bugfixes (bug 456863)
• repair borked headers when detected (bug 457052)

nth10sd

• bug 426963#c5 We are leaking more stuff at shutdown. :(

Standard8

• Reviews, Driving
• Started updates to website for release.
• bug 456863 New/Edit Card tooltip not resetting in Header bar display
• Toolkit Autocomplete
  • Still trying to work out problems with LDAP.

asuth

• gloda support
  • address book contact overlay editing.
• gloda
  • review action item processing
  • implemented address book indexing for tag purposes
  • various refactoring of the datamodel, datastore, and indexer to support attributes on things other than messages, storage, etc.
  • refactored gloda autocomplete code
  • implemented customized XBL autocomplete bindings, for thunderbar awesomeness.
• chroniquery
  • some enhancements trying to help out bsmedberg; don't think it helped out, but nice features to have at least for my own usage. (find what function calls returned a specific value in a reasonably efficient fashion.)

bienvenu

• Reviews and Driving
• Worked on beta 1 blockers:
  • Fixed misparented messages in threads, bug 457052
  • Fixed problems filtering pop3 mail when hidden pref to remove dupes is set, bug 457168
  • Fixed drag drop of folders, bug 456096
  • Found fix for imap undo issues bug 444417
• Fixed (but not checked in) several imap assertions, including bug 455966,bug 455963
• Continued work on kill-rdf repository - the backend no longer finds folders via GetResource.
• Continued work on cross-folder threading - can expand and collapse threads now.

gozer

• Beta 1 Dry Run
  • Went okay-ish (ended up with packages/installers for all 3 platforms)
  • I don't have write permissions to mozilla-central, so couldn't tag myself
  • Tagging was almost perfect, with one tiny mistag
  • Tagging is scripted for next time around
  • Not enough disk space on the build boxes for both a nightly and a release
  • buildsymbols on OS X is flacky, but I managed to get a successfull run
  • mar generation is broken on OS X (Error) -- Fixed
  • Got to automate the building a little (and the mozconfigs)
    • Standard8 is looking into it
• Lightning/gdata
  • Cleanly builds in comm-central/ on all platforms
  • Nightlies are sorted out
• L10N
  • 27 green locales!
  • Dashboard working great
  • Updating every hour, for lack of a working HgPoller
  • New locales were added
• Web
  • Staging for spreadthunderbird is up
  • *.mozillamessaging.com 40k hits/day on our own hardware
  • Started looking into how easy/hard running SUMO is

beckley

• Mainly just been getting Penelope/Eudora 8 prepared for the upcoming beta

rebron

• Web site - Finalized site map and wire frames. Reviewed first round of [design] with TRO. Getting feedback on design from community.
• Good discussion w/ SUMO team. Moving forward planning/investigation of SUMO 0.7 on *.mozillamessaging.com.
• PR planning for beta 1 and European trip.
• Continued work on tightening up marketing language.