SeaMonkey/StatusMeetings/2008-11-18

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SeaMonkey Meeting Details

• Time: November 18, 2008, 13:00 UTC
• Location: #seamonkey IRC channel

Agenda

• Who's taking minutes? --> Ratty

Action Items

(who needs to do what that hasn't been recorded in a bug)

• KaiRo still needs to remind gavin periodically to review bug 407725.
• Will we branch early (at about same time as Firefox/m-c) or just let our trunk follow their branch. Or will we skip 1.9.1 and wait for 1.9.2? Probably best to NG-this and postpone decision making for next meeting. --Justin Wood (Callek) 17:52, 17 November 2008 (UTC)

SeaMonkey 2 Alpha 2

Bug Queries

open blockers all blockers blocker requests

• Freeze target is supposedly still TODAY, can we make it?
• Do we have enough new stuff to warrant another alpha?
  • bug 428216 (toolbarbutton iconsize/mode control) is go.
  • bug 255834 (port Thunderbird RSS/Atom reader) is go.
• We need alpha blocker triage done!
  • I just did some triage in a few bugs, I'm not officially council so someone will still need to go through and read my comments and either choose to agree or not on those requests --Justin Wood (Callek) 00:29, 18 November 2008 (UTC)
    • Note to the receptionist for this meeting, remove my comments on blockers from this section, no need for it to be in ending notes; Just entered here incase I'm not around for this part of meeting --Justin Wood (Callek) 00:29, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

Longer-Term SeaMonkey 2 Planning

open wanted wanted requests

Major wanted/needed features:

• bug 381157 Download manager.
  • Has progress, no new patch yet. Basic functionality *will* make next release.
• bug 390025 Kill-wallet (password manager).
  • status/progress?
• bug 382187 Places history.
  • did some updating of the code after first review comments from Neil, more to come.
• bug 345526 Reimplement FAYT.
  • status/progress?
• bug 36810 Session restore.
  • waiting for review.
• bug 394288 / bug 413385 Toolbar customization.
  • bug 428216 (toolbarbutton iconsize/mode control) landed. I had to fix a couple of regressions and a couple of followup enhancement bugs were filed. I'll work on bug 394288 (Customizable Toolbars in Navigator) post Alpha2. bug 413385 (Customizable Toolbars in SeaMonkey MailNews) shoud be next after that. --Ratty.
  • Toolkit bug 407725 is still waiting for reviews from gavin.
    • "hopefully I can finish it this week?" -- gavin
• bug 456757 Modern theme update.
  • Kuden has just sent me an update. mozapps has been completed. There is a complete theme jar file see comment #1 in the bug --Ratty.
• bug 460699 Make the default theme look better on mac.
  • stefanh says he won't have any patch ready before we're closer to beta.
• bug 454847 Fishcam update
  • Waiting on new http://www.fishcam.com/ (by original fishcam creator), might just be what we are looking for.
• bug 410613 OpenSearch.
  • status/progress?
• bug 453797 SeaMonkey installer improvements.
  • just requsted review on Sunday, review might take a bit
• Handling bug 420506 Thunderbird kill-rdf.
  • bug 460952 Ensure Thunderbird kill-rdf doesn't break SeaMonkey.
    • status/progress?
  • bug 460953 Port jminta's kill-rdf to SeaMonkey where applicable.
    • status/progress?
• bug 255834 Port Thunderbird RSS/Atom reader. Done -- Thank to IanN.
• bug 415372 Implement Feed Preview.
  • And then link it to NewsBlog.
• bug 460960 Port Thunderbird tabbed interface to MailNews.
  • This is a requisite for bug 313822 (Make Lightning work on SeaMonkey)

Roundtable

Status Updates from developers - what are you working on, what's the progress, any other comments? (feel free to add yourself to the list if your name is missing and you have interesting status).

Callek

• Ongoing progress on DLMGR
• Threw together a quick (hacky) solution to tying our feed discovery into the newly landed MailNews feed reader. bug 465258 (Will be backed out when feed preview is done)

IanN

• Working on various RSS related bugs / patches.
• Usual reviewing of patches, etc.

KaiRo

• As always, my blog has more detailed status about my work.

mcsmurf

• Finished testing installer patch, requested review (see longer-term planning above for bug #)

Mnyromyr

• some few :( reviews
• started planning fix for bug 460960 (tabs in MailNews)

Ratty

• Fixed a couple of regressions due to bug 428216 (toolbarbutton iconsize/mode control) landing. Tracked response to this new feature. Developers unhappy with the way the context menu was implemented. End users/testers in Mozillazine were initially confused but generally appreciative and looking forward to full toolbar customization.
• bug 465073 (duplicate id in navigator.xul: reporterItemsBroadcaster): I have patch that should stop the orange in the SeaMonkey tree.
• Track user issues on mozilla.support.seamonkey and in the MozillaZine forums.
• Drive Modern Theme update.

wladow

obsolete strings cleanup done:

• 370 obsolete strings removed from suite/ (bug 463886)
• with 127 obsolete strings removed from editor/ (bug 463869; done by sipaq) SeaMonkey localizers now need to translate 500 strings less than before

Any other business?

• Security and stability updates for the Gecko 1.8.1 branch.
  • We probably need to work with Camino, and Linux distro's to find someone to upkeep the 1.8.1 branch due to Firefox dropping support for that branch soon. Thunderbird will likely still be supported, but having additional help outside of our small teams will be a MAJOR plus. --Justin Wood (Callek) 17:52, 17 November 2008 (UTC)
  • According to a Novell forum posting Novell and RedHat will jointly backport security and stability fixes to 1.8.1. However it's unclear if they are going to be actively pushing their backports upstream. We should (in the NGs) explore a mechanism e.g. a drivers181 mailing list to coordinate driving their backports into the mozilla cvs tree. They might even be persuaded to use the mozilla cvs tree as their primary patch point and then pull updates down to their local repositories. --Ratty