SeaMonkey/StatusMeetings/2010-03-23

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SeaMonkey Meeting Details

• Time: March 23, 2010, 13:00 UTC
• Location: #seamonkey IRC channel

Agenda

• Who's taking minutes?

Action Items

(who needs to do what that hasn't been recorded in a bug) We should assign people to the open items.

NEW

OPEN

• Get permission from Google to use their geolocation JSON service [KaiRo]. Contact at Google says: "We don't have a good estimate for when GLS will be opening up more broadly, but I will be sure to let you know when we take that step. Sorry that I can not be more specific at this time." - We can only wait right now.
  • KaiRo found out that the contact at Google changed. Also, discussing a possible open Geolocation service.

CLOSED

SeaMonkey 1.1.19 (1.x EOL)

• Shipped, some problem with older MAC system not being able to run it.

SeaMonkey 2.0.4

open blockers (1) blocker requests (0) fixed (89)

• Based on Gecko 1.9.1.9, targeted for March 30 - see Releases.
• Thunderbird 3.0.4 should be synched up with us as well this time.
• Builds are up and should go to the beta channel any moment.
• Testing required.

Feature List, Planning

Bug statistics for last two (full) weeks: 27 new, 25 fixed, 31 triaged.

• Triage seems to pick up a bit now, but fixing slowed down a bit.

Major wanted/needed features:

2.0.x

• bug 423281 Help updates.
  • InvisibleSmiley has been working on updating help.
  • bug 463903 (form autocomplete documentation).
  • FAQ to cover e.g. double-click / down arrow in form fields?
    • No progress to report.
• bug 483282 Make sure normal SeaMonkey use doesn't pay a price for having venkman installed [Mnyromyr].
  • Needs at least a core patch landing for 1.9.1.9 bug 364864 (nsICategoryManager::deleteCategoryEntry does not persist outside of component registration).
  • No progress to report.
• bug 471346 Port GetDefaultFeedReader to SeaMonkey shell service [mcsmurf].
  • No progress to report.

2.1

• bug 460953 kill-rdf port [sgautherie].
  • Postponed until mcsmurf (or sgautherie) can resume work on it.
  • No progress.
• bug 436794 Enable Mac OS X system address book per default and add UI.
  • SM UI needed, unowned, helpwanted.
• bug 410613 OpenSearch. helpwanted.
  • We need to check if OpenSearch can support all our existing functionality, for example the INTEPRETS section in Sherlock search plugins. Mnyromyr will check on that, and on how extensible the Firefox code is.
• bug 449728 Drag tabs between windows.
  • Jeffrey Lee, a Seneca student, is looking into that!
• bug 498596 Places bookmarks.
  • KaiRo should have everything working, has posted a first round of patches, need two toolkit patches to land before any try builds can be done or something like that.
• bug 480734 Satchel data editor ("Form Manager").
  • unowned so far.
• bug 477845 Build a standalone (Gecko 1.9.3) Composer.
  • kaze will look into that once KompoZer 0.8 is done.
  • bug 477840 Backport KompoZer to Composer (Depends on bug 477845).
  • kaze has done a ton of work there. We're still trying to work out some organizational issues.
• bug 523274 Complete new default theme icon set.
  • A list of TODO icons is up in the bug.
  • Still needs quite a bit of work.
  • bug 522023 is working on improving the browser globe in task icons, etc..
• bug 526210 Update the icon set for the SeaMonkey Modern Theme.
  • Some proposed icons got posted, we should take a look how to get that contribution into the product.
  • The rest is unowned so far.
• bug 521927 Make Search, Folder Location and Views widgets for MailNews customizable toolbars.
  • status/progress?
• bug 545110 Add/port about:support (Troubleshooting Information page) to SeaMonkey
  • Depends on bug 518607 Move the Troubleshooting Information page into toolkit so other apps like Thunderbird and SeaMonkey can use it.

We also should take a look at the other items on wanted-seamonkey2.1+

• We need to find a solution for Lightning, which is targeting Thunderbird 3.1 now.

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).

InvisibleSmiley

Bugs fixed:

• bug 549802 Reply button doesn't launch mail composition window.

KaiRo

• As usual, my blog has more detailed status about my work, and Mozilla Status Board Posts also tell about my next planned steps.

sgautherie

• Fixed (or in-progress) SeaMonkey (related) bugs:
  • bug 548614 use define instead of literal string for windows favorites dir
  • bug 550835 TB cannot be built using system hunspell lib
  • bug 552664 Port |Bug 542941 - Better handling of EMBED visits| to SeaMonkey
  • bug 522712 Port |Bug 511761 - Only use compatibility.ini (not .autoreg, or stat()s) to invalidate fastloads and other caches| to comm-central (apps)
  • bug 550018 [SeaMonkey, Debug] (Windows) Packaged tests are all T-FAIL due to missing dll(s)
• Fixed (or in-progress) MailNews Core bugs:
  • bug 496236 Resync' configure.in between c-1.9.1 and m-1.9.1
  • bug 509147 Port |Bug 483856 - Use $(CURDIR) to make pymake happy| to comm-central
  • bug 514519 make --enable-official-branding app-agnostic
  • bug 531275 Generate localized builds of WinCE (nightly and releases)
  • bug 538528 Allow client.py network attempts to restart itself in case of failures
  • bug 538753 Port |Bug 508861 - [electrolysis] Build/ship the C++ runtime with MSVC/jemalloc| to comm-central
  • bug 546716 Port |Bug 422771 - reduce narrow windows API calls in browser| to comm-central
  • bug 548210 Port |Bug 509319 - Enable FIPS throws uncaught exception in toggleFIPS| to comm-central
  • bug 550474 Fix '--enable-static --disable-static-mail' behavior
  • bug 553964 Port |Bug 550468 - Fix support for Pango font engine on Qt platform| to comm-central
  • bug 506493 Resync' configure.in between c-c and m-c
  • bug 534408 Core bug 514665 dropped/replaced USE_SHORT_LIBNAME uses: port that to c-c (apps)
  • bug 552955 Resync' client.py on c-1.9.1 after bug 508955 and bug 538528
• Fixed (or in-progress) Core bugs:
  • bug 551153 ###!!! ASSERTION: Not a UTF-8 string when running TestUTF and TestAtoms
  • bug 553807 "ASSERTION: Value of subject is not set: 'subjectValue', file .../nsRDFBinding.cpp, line 286"
  • bug 369034 TestTXMgr has error and leaks object

Standard8

• See Mozilla Status Board Posts.

Any other business?

• (cilias, not actually calling in) Anyone want to take over seamonkey.ilias.ca? If not, I'm going to blog and post in the support newsgroup, asking for someone to take it over.