SeaMonkey/StatusMeetings/2015-09-01

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SeaMonkey Meeting Details

• Time: 1 September, 2015, 12:00 UTC
  • (8am Eastern, 1pm UK, 2pm Central Europe, 8pm 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

• Need to port Sync 2.0 to SeaMonkey - IanN to talk to ewong about options.

OPEN

• bug 1198340 The carousel within Add-On Manager can be used for SeaMonkey specific content. TO DO: Find out what sort of format AMO needs for the carousel. Get our webdev person to create necessary content. Submit content for upload to AMO.
• bug 1121281 tracks the RelEng automation migration off CVS. Everything is now in a single repo, patches for using that new repo are awaiting a review from Callek.

CLOSED

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Status of the SeaMonkey Buildbot Master and Tree

• Notes:
  • Windows nightly trunk builds are unavailable due to various bugs such as bug 1092468 and bug 1108970. Migrating our Windows builders to Win2008 and our compiler toolchain to VS2013 would likely solve this and other bustages.
  • There are also some upcoming changes to L10n build system in Q1 2015 (bug 1107635).
  • Buildmaster is up and running, and produces en-US builds, see 9/16 meeting's Friends of the Fish Tank. Builds and langpacks in 18 languages including en-US are available unofficially thanks to A.Kalla.
  • bug 1083689 Langpacks aren't updated when auto-updating SeaMonkey because they aren't uploaded to AMO. The solution requires changes in SeaMonkey RelEng (and possibly AMO).
  • For various reasons we don't have a working SeaMonkey Treeherder.
  • wrt bug 1155011, we already have a Soccoro token. The patches on bug 1155013 require approval and then pushed and the work-around patches backed out.
• [1st September 2015]
  • All trees:
    • Windows platform still busted due to needing Win2008R2 installed.
    • We have a loaner which ewong is working on (see blog for more information).
  • comm-central & comm-aurora:
    • All platforms: Busted due to bug 1190256. bug 1190773 covers the plan to fix it.

• See RelEng page for the RelEng status history.

Release Train

• SeaMonkey 2.33.1 was released on 23 March and is the most recent release.
  • there were 15 security fixes (5 of which critical) in the Gecko 37 cycle
  • there were 13 security fixes (5 of which critical) in the Gecko 38 cycle
  • there were 13 security fixes (4 of which critical) in the Gecko 39 cycle (all but one also affected and fixed for 38.1.0 ESR)
  • there were 14 security fixes (4 of which critical) in the Gecko 40 cycle (all but 3, one of which critical, also affected and fixed for 38.2.0 ESR)
  • contributed trunk/aurora builds are available for testing, see bug 1169140 and Contributed SeaMonkey Win32 builds for testing
  • There are some builds up on Google Drive which Ratty has uploaded to http://seamonkey.callek.net/contrib/.
  • obviously, this can't be an acceptable permanent solution...
• Useful Firefox Release Schedule link: Releases Scheduling
  • merge day was 10 August as scheduled
• SeaMonkey 2.35 release:
  • (ewong) is expected this week, along with, hopefully, 2.38 beta.
  • Once 2.35 is out Callek and ewong will focus on getting a beta of 2.38 out A.S.A.P. Due to certificate server issues, we need to do a beta release from 2.38 at the latest (2.39 would have problems).

SeaMonkey 2.35 Release

• We plan to release SeaMonkey 2.35 asap in August. We missed this deadline but should have a release this week (September).
  • For windows builds, we have a loaner win machine from Mozilla for us (i.e. ewong) to do manual window builds.
  • (ewong): Suggesting early September, but we shall see.

ewong

• I have done nothing on the Nightlies/Aurora as I've been concentrating on getting Win32 builds and repacks done.
  • The Win32 2.35 release builds was completed on Friday (28th August 2015).
  • The 2.35 l10n Win32 repacks were done on late Sunday/Early Monday (30th/31st August 2015)
    • The busted l10n linux/osx repacks (ca, fi, ja(linux), ja-JP-mac(osx), sv-SE, pt-PT) were retriggered on Monday 31st August 2015.

Extensions and Plugins Compatibility Tracking

• See Basics page. Please only list current changes here.
• Addon Compatibility Listings
• We are looking for a new place to host the Addon Compatibility Listings for the Add-on Converter in order to make it easy to maintain and to serve as the main database for the AMO browsing extension in the future. The details are in this post.
• Firefox & Thunderbird Add-on Converter for SeaMonkey http://addonconverter.fotokraina.com/
  This tool goes a little further beyond simply modifying install.rdf - it also identifies a few more other things in the code that are Firefox or Thunderbird specific and attempts to change them. Of course, not all extensions can be ported so easily to SeaMonkey since there's only so much an automated tool like that can do.
  • Lemon Juice continues to improve his already impressive Addon Converter. The source is now available on GitHub [1].
  • looking for a better(?) home for extension-converter pages, along with a way to track successful and conversion-failed add-ons, and respective integration into SeaMonkey by add-on or manager overlay [2], bug 1145026.
  • Rainer Bielefeld will no longer update the list of Firefox addons that have been successfully converted by the Addon Converter. -- Rrbd (talk) 09:59, 16 August 2015 (PDT)
  • Ratty filed bug 1130390 to add a link on seamonkey-projects.org to the Firefox & Thunderbird Add-on Converter for SeaMonkey.
• The Thunderbird team is now shipping Lightning with Thunderbird. IanN will work on shipping lightning too. Related bugs:
  • bug 516026 Integrate Lightning Into SeaMonkey by Default and Ship SeaMonkey with Lightning Enabled
  • bug 1130854 Package Lightning with Thunderbird for c-c and c-a builds.
  • bug 1113183 Integrate Lightning Into Thunderbird by Default.
  • bug 1130852 Add opt-in dialog to promote Calendar integration [Thunderbird].
• Proposed replacement for Venkman for shipping with SeaMonkey: Tiny JavaScript Debugger. TinyJSD is a JavaScript debugger for privileged code running Mozilla products like Firefox, Thunderbird, SeaMonkey. It serves to debug the application as well as extensions written in JavaScript.
  • IanN filed bug 1133723 Investigate options for replacing Venkman with the TinyJSDebugger.

2.x (Last, Current, Next)

• SeaMonkey Statistics can be viewed at https://dataviz.mozilla.org Across all channels we have an approximate ADU of 120k.
  • Ratty suggests embedding these graphs somewhere on seamonkey-projects.org or https://dev.seamonkey.at
  • bug 1133728 Look at embedding dataviz information into the SeaMonkey website.
  • Links are broken again. Dataviz views now needs a SSO login. We need to find out how to expose a limited view for public consumption bug 1173006.
• See Basics page for the usual reminders.

2.33

open tracking (0) tracking requests (1) targeted (0) fixed (21)

• SeaMonkey 2.33 Release Notes
  • Known Issues: bug 1062297 All saved passwords [apparently] gone after update.
    Mozillazine Firefox thread: http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=2864933
    • Workaround 1:
    • Workaround 2:

2.35

open tracking (1) tracking requests (2) targeted (0) fixed (45)

• SeaMonkey 2.35 Release Notes (yet to come)
• SEAMONKEY_2_35_RELEASE_BRANCH has been established per bug 1179808 on mozilla-esr38 (off THUNDERBIRD_38_VERBRANCH) and comm-release.

2.36

open tracking (0) tracking requests (0) targeted (0) fixed (7)

• SeaMonkey 2.36 Release Notes (yet to come)
• SEAMONKEY_2_36_RELEASE_BRANCH has been established in comm-release.
• [Ratty] We will probably skip to SeaMonkey 2.38 after releasing SeaMonkey 2.35.

2.Next

• We need someone to work on porting sync 2.0 over to replace legacy sync code. The finer details of how are so far unknown, but we should have a usable solution before legacy sync is turned off. See: New Firefox Sync has landed in Firefox Nightly. Tracked in:
  • bug 998807 Sync account creation or device pairing fails with exception in BrowserIDManager.
  • bug 1003434 Add support for about:sync-progress.
• Stalled. Needs a kick.
  • bug 815954 Click-to-Play: Port bug 812562 (click-to-play blocklisted plugins: reshow urlbar notification as with normal click-to-play).
  • bug 476108 GetShortPathNameW fails under some NTFS junctions [patchlove].
• Current breakages:
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• Mozilla-central bugs that affect us:
  • Changes to Safe Browsing
  • Change of printing API bug 1146454 needs to be ported, immediate bustage was fixed in bug 1190344.
    • IanN is working on migrating comm-central to the new API [bug 1195863].
  • Firefox is currently changing styles of several Toolkit pages
    • already affected: config.xul for about:config, bug 1125636
    • Toolkit meta bug for about:* pages: bug 1097111 - SeaMonkey tracking in bug 1133743
    • Modern may need updating as IDs are changing, Default needs forking if we want to roll back to previous styles
    • Fallout thus far: bug 1133380 about:privatebrowsing (Default), bug 1133582 about:config (Modern)
    • further work to separate function from style in CSS for about:privatebrowsing in bug 1178008 (3rd-party themes)
    • Ratty restored about:privatebrowsing UI to before it was messed up by Project Chameleon styles [bug 1192276]
  • A lot of these bugs are due to mozilla-central switching from synchronous APIs to Asynchronous APIs.
  • 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.
  • The C++ downloads manager backend nsIDownloadManager is being decommissioned. Firefox and Thunderbird have migrated to jsdownloads.
  • 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. Neil has a WIP patch on hand.
  • Removal of SSL 3.0 support after POODLE Attack with 2.36, see bug 1106470.
    • bug 1137991 has removed SSL 3.0 checkbox from SSL preferences
    • bug 1149581 covers removal of the related strings
    • Firefox has proceeded with the removal in 39.0 given that Chrome goes the same way [3]
  • We've picked up he default for security.tls.version.min from Mozilla Core, but security.tls.version.fallback-limit is new. So we need to consider adding the latter to our preferences UI (bug 1123673).
    • Currently unclear whether or not this should be done after bug 1084025 disable insecure TLS version fallback entirely by default [4]
    • alternative proposal is to make whitelist for acceptable fallback sites available in the UI, which seems to make more sense.

Feature List, Planning

Bug statistics for the last two (full) weeks: 17 new, 8 fixed, 18 triaged.

• Medium-low triaging effort, low number of new bugs filed.
• IanN thinks it would be useful to remind people on the newsgroups / forums that they can contribute by triaging. Tonymec will post a reminder to newsgroups / forums. See bug 1092632 (Sm_tri_HowTo) Document how to triage SeaMonkey bugs.
  • The draft is currently at https://wiki.mozilla.org/User:Tonymec/Triage_HowTo
  • Progress is stalled due to hardware/firmware problems with Tonymec's current computer. Current ETA for newer computer is after Easter but this is a rough estimate. Anyone with a wikimoz account can edit the page (and is welcome to). — Tonymec (talk) 17:35, 21 January 2015 (PST)

Open reviews/flags: 49 review 5 super-review 5 ui-review 13 feedback

• See Feature List page for major wanted/needed features.
• TODO:
  • bug 1127784 proposes to add a preference and UI to enable/disable playback of Encrypted Media Extensions.
    • FIXED has landed, with UI seen in non-release builds only.
    • but uncertain if it does anything useful to be tested.
• Our in content help text is badly outdated. We should import the current xhtml files into some sort of database which can then output both a set of web pages as well as the xhtml files that populate our current help content.

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).

IanN

• Usual testing, reviewing, commenting and approving.
• Fixed:
• Fixed for c-c:
• Fixed for m-c:
  • bug 1195279 Fix typo in allDownloadsViewOverlay.js following landing of bug 1127867
• Fixed for m-i/fx-i:
• Pending tree opening:
• Pending approval for check in:
  • bug 653386 Consider overriding netErrorApp.dtd rather than netError.dtd
  • bug 1187964 View source from Thunderbird uses deprecated API
  • bug 1190185 Switch default search engine to DuckDuckGo
  • bug 1195126 Port |bug 666908 and bug 704316| to comm-central
  • bug 1195863 Switch to new PrintUtils API
• Checked in pending review:
• Waiting for feedback/review/information:
  • bug 1061348 Port |bug 575283 - Cleanup mozconfig files on all platforms| to SeaMonkey
  • bug 1163441 Use FINAL_TARGET_FILES and DIST_FILES for Thunderbird themes
  • bug 1195129 Port |bug 1027890 - Remove all sorts of build system code dedicated to pymake| and |bug 1082323 - Reject pymake in client.mk| to comm-central
  • bug 1195246 Port client.mk changes from |bug 1188766 - sccache setup with UPLOAD_EXTRA_FILES makes some files uploaded multiple times| to comm-central
  • bug 1195258 Port |bug 710147 - Pass more targets from client.mk to the build system| and |bug 911936 - Kill make depend| to comm-central
  • bug 1195264 Port |bug 741839 - client.mk: consolidate $(wildcard calls) to reduce overhead| and client.mk parts of |bug 774106 - Change how virtualenv is populated| to comm-central
  • bug 1195331 Port |bug 762358 - .mozconfig changes don't cause configure to run| to comm-central
• Fixing review comments before checkin:
  • bug 757230 When using add button for permissions in Data Manager set a displayHost
  • bug 798147 Switch to correct pref pane if pref window already open
• Working on:
  • bug 1200199 Update en-GB for Gecko 41
  • bug 1101381 Printing throws error: DEPRECATION WARNING: getWebBrowserPrint is now deprecated, and fully unsupported for multi-process browsers. Please use a frame script to get access to nsIWebBrowserPrint from content
  • bug 1190179 Port |bug 1067325 - Add an option to view html source in a tab| to SeaMonkey
  • bug 1051642 Allow for flat chrome format when packaging extensions
  • bug 943335 [TB] Update icons used in searchplugins (Yahoo, eBay, Wikipedia, Amazon, Bing, Twitter)
  • Various SM Council documents.
  • bug 606683 Allow customization of toolbar in Composer and MailNews Composition
  • bug 639690 [META] Re-arrange code between editor and editorOverlay
  • bug 773979 [META] Switch to new drag and drop api in SeaMonkey
  • bug 657234 Move pasteQuote and pasteNoFormatting into contentAreaContextOverlay
  • File/Folder selection in windows.
• To Do:
  • bug 639395 Get cmd_fontSize to reflect current state of selected content / content at caret.
  • Prefs-in-a-tab.
  • Create FAQ for Friends of the Fish Tank.
  • Help get composer standalone builds working with --enable-tests.

Neil

Sorry, I've not done much at all this fortnight due to illness.

Ratty

Has Review. Waiting for a greener tree before checking in:

• bug 507676 Port bug 435804 Remaining rdf cleanup for FilterListDialog| to SeaMonkey.
• bug 640420 Add draggable splitter between urlbar and searchbar.
• bug 1176602 Make sure that the dictionary stored in spellchecker.dictionary is valid (Adapt Thunderbird bug 1175908).
• bug 1192276 Restore about:privatebrowsing UI to before it was messed up by Project Chameleon styles.

Fixed:

• bug 1196422 error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol GetAsciiHostPort(class nsACString_internal &) [MailNewsCore].

In Progress:

• bug 1011857 Implement CustomizableUI shim for SeaMonkey.
• bug 1022354 SeaMonkey forces 3rd-party themes to not use defaultFavicon.png but hardcode a bookmarks-item.png.
  • bug 1189918 Theme overrides should work in safe mode for comm-central applications too. [Toolkit]
  • bug 1190465 Move default theme overrides into separate chrome.manifest for other non-firefox toolkit consumers too. [Toolkit].
  • Thunderbird defaut theme overrides.

Investigate: Other stuff:

• Did some reviews and approvals.
• Bug triage and Bug discussions.
• Usual end user support and PR in newsgroups and Mozillazine.

Any other business?

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