SeaMonkey/StatusMeetings/2013-12-10

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SeaMonkey Meeting Details

• Time: 10 December, 2013, 13:00 UTC
  • (8am Eastern, 1pm UK, 2pm Central Europe, 9pm Hong Kong)
• Location: #seamonkey IRC channel
• Further Read: Basics

Agenda

• Who's taking minutes? -> TBD
• Nominees for Friends of the Fish Tank:
  • TBD

Action Items

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

NEW

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OPEN

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CLOSED

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Status of the SeaMonkey Buildbot Master and Tree

• We are perma-red and perma-orange on comm-central and comm-aurora due to not having a recent enough version of Python (or if we do, the build scripts aren't finding them).
  • On trunk Linux and OSX trunk builds are perma-red. Windows en-US builds are being successfully compiled but tests are not working due to a dependency on python 2.7.3.
  • bug 908090 ImportError: No module named json, on SeaMonkey Linux/Windows (all) test runs, due to (still) using Python 2.5. We do have python 2.7 installed but our build system is picking up python 2.5 instead.
  • pymake is failing with "invalid syntax" again because of an outdated Python.
  • Priority on fixing this and l10n repacks after 2.23b1 release.(No ETA yet)
  • Comm-aurora red is due to bug 937558 (Need new Venkman and Chatzilla branches). Once we have the new branches we can land the fixes for Chatzilla and Venkman from bug 926279
• No langpacks since 29th August on trunk. Needs investigating.
  • Windows and Mac trunk langpacks directories have been removed on the FTP server, maybe for lack of recent XPIs (later than 2.20a1). Latest Linux langpacks are dated 29 August. Callek told Tonymec on IRC he has a hunch about why but more pressing things to do first.
  • In Bug 902876 Comment 12 Mcsmurf is waiting for feedback from the build team on how to proceed.
  • Trunk, Aurora and Beta TBPLs are far more orange (or even red) than green; at the top of Aurora and Beta TBPLs there is a link to mozilla.org::ServerOps:DCOps bug 870207 which is RESOLVED WONTFIX since June. SeaMonkey::RelEng bug 884454 has been opened as a followup.
• Buildmaster is up and running.
  • Callek is hand-approving requests for CLOSED TREE landings at the moment.
• bug 740633 set up seamonkey HPs in scl3. Hardware installed and iLO configured. CentOS 6.3 installed.
• comm-* will be building out of mozilla-* eventually (bug 648979 etc.). Jcrammer is working on this.

Release Train

• SeaMonkey 2.23 beta 1 was released December 6.
• SeaMonkey 2.23 beta 2 is pending, no ETA yet.
• SeaMonkey 2.23 final is scheduled for December 10.

Extensions and Plugins Compatibility Tracking

• Representatives from SeaMonkey, Thunderbird, and Mozilla AMO discussed the future hosting of TB/SM extensions on the new firefox marketplace.
  • For the time being there are no plans to merge AMO into the firefox marketplace. TB/SM will be in informed if there are any changes.
• See Basics page. Please only list current changes here.
• Addon Compatibility Listings
• bug 888478 DOM Inspector could not be installed.
  • The Windows version of SeaMonkey 2.21 is affected but not Linux. The install.rdf is missing in affected builds. The last SeaMonkey 2.23 nightly build (before uplift to 2.24) does not seem to be affected possibly because of the other build changes during that cycle (bug 914560).
• Lightning doesn't work on SeaMonkey trunk due to:
  • bug 922777 which should be fixed in bug 915574 (Use MOZ_FOLD_LIBS in SeaMonkey).
  • bug 925823 (Failed to load native module libcalbasecomps.so).
  • mozilla-central bug 927073 (Binary compatibility broken for maintenance releases due to strict version-script).
• There is now a Lightning version for SM 2.22 (Lightning 2.7b1) available on AMO.
  • Might need to point out in release notes that users needs to install the Lightning beta versions for the SeaMonkey releases (as Lightning follows Thunderbird 17.0.x release schedule)
  • Problem: Linking to https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/seamonkey/addon/lightning/versions/ will provide users with versions that do not put them on the addons beta update channel; also linking to a specific version would need updating with every release
  • Linking to https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/seamonkey/addon/lightning/#beta-channel does not jump to the correct page position as addons.mozilla.org loads the user comments for the addon after pageload. So it first moves to the correct position (page anchor) and after that it loads the user comments
• Our build team needs to automate DOMI branch selection rather than having to tweak the client.py every 6 weeks. bug 763506

2.x (Last, Current, Next)

• [From a previous meeting:] There is a problem with the metrics server, so no current data is available
• See Basics page for the usual reminders.

2.22

open tracking (0) tracking requests (3) targeted (0) fixed (15)

• SeaMonkey 2.22 Release Notes

2.Next

• Current breakages:
  • [mozilla-central] bug 856270 Update nsEditorSpellCheck to use nsIContentPrefService2.
    • This broke comm-central in various ways:
    • Core bug 887010 InlineSpellChecker.addDictionaryListToMenu fails if called straight after InlineSpellChecker.enabled is set to true (and no async work around).
• Mozilla-central bugs that affect us:
  • Note: Please file bugs if you notice any landing on mozilla-central that might break us. Please don't depend on Ratty noticing such landings.
  • A lot of these bugs are due to mozilla-central switching from synchronous APIs to Asynchronous APIs.
  • bug 831208 (asyncContentPrefsUse) Refactor asyncContentPrefs consumers to use the async API. Tracked in:
    • bug 909093 Update SeaMonkey to use nsIContentPrefService2. Mcsmurf and Neil@parkway are currently working on this.
  • bug 566746 (asyncFormHistory) Form history should use asynchronous storage API. Tracked in:
    • bug 912031 Use Asynchronous FormHistory.jsm in place of nsIFormHistory2 in Suite.
  • bug 769764 move proxy resolution to separate thread and remove sync api. Tracked in:
    • MailNews bug 791645 Rewrite calls to synchronous nsIProtocolProxyService::DeprecatedBlockingResolve with Async code before DeprecatedBlockingResolve disappears as well.
  • bug 793634 Force builds to be compatible with gtk 2.18/glib 2.22. Tracked in:
    • bug 795354 Migrate SeaMonkey Linux builders to CentOS 6.
    • bug 794772 Port |bug 713802 Build with GIO support (and drop GnomeVFS)|. This is dependent on bug 795354.
  • bug 795144 default --disable-gnomeui icon theme support
    • porting bug needed for the two configure.in changesets? Changes could be folded into bug 794772 above. *** IanN and Ewong are looking into this..
  • bug 627699 Port GTK2 to GTK3. Tracked in:
    • bug 882036 Port GTK2 to GTK3 - SeaMonkey Part.
    • A Red Hat person seems to be working on the GTK3 integration.
  • bug 846635 Use asynchronous getCharsetForURI in getShortcutOrURI. bug 834543 Add asynchronous version of setCharsetForURI and getCharsetForURI. Tracked in:
    • bug 896947 Use asynchronous version of setCharsetForURI and getCharsetForURI in getShortcutOrURI and other places.
  • bug 825588 Asynchronous JavaScript API for downloads and bug 851471 Decommission nsIDownloadManager. Tracked in:
    • bug 888915 Move SeaMonkey to the new JavaScript API for downloads when nsIDownloadManager is decommissioned.

Feature List, Planning

Private Browsing is now available in SeaMonkey 2.19 and newer. There may be some edge cases have probably been missed. We hope any remaining bugs will be found before we formally announce.

• Testing would be appreciated! Please file bugs as blocking the meta bug 460895.
• FIXED: The about:privatebrowsing page needs UI polish (bug 842439).

Bug statistics for the last two (full) weeks: 33 new, 9 fixed, 12 triaged.

• Low to Medium triaging effort.

Open reviews/flags: 23 review 7 super-review 2 ui-review 6 feedback

• See Feature List page for major wanted/needed features.

Roundtable - Personal Status Updates

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).

tonymec

Stalled

• NEW (dogfood, regression)
  • bug 943740 Seamonkey Nightly and Aurora are not being built on Linux and Mac platforms
    • since September 19, October 28, etc., depending on version & platform
    • see above, Status of the SeaMonkey Buildbot Master and Tree
• ASSIGNED (NEEDINFO)
  • bug 112578 (enh) search mails window : search subfolders should remember last state
    • One-liner port from Thunderbird, r? since 2013-10-20
    • NEEDINFO from Thunderbird QA since 2013-11-26 (what does Tb do in similar circumstances?)
• FIXED (verifyme)
  • bug 934191 (min) The title of the "Quit SeaMonkey" dialog is misleading when closing just the Browser
    • can only be VERIFIED on Windows atm: needs 2.25a1 later than 2013-11-12
    • 2.24a2-wontfix because new strings

Triageing etc. as usual.

Any other business?

• Meeting schedule:
  • The next meeting is in two weeks time (2013-12-10).
  • There won't be a meeting on Christmas Eve 2013-12-24.
  • Thus we shall meet again on 2014-01-07.