Thunderbird/StatusMeetings/2008-12-02

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Thunderbird Meeting Details

• Tuesday, Dec 2, 17:30 UTC (9:30am Pacific, 12:30pm Eastern)
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Agenda

• Who's taking minutes? --> rebron (in place of davida due to not being around last week).
• Minute taking Schedule. Talk to davida for schedule changes/additions.

Calls For Help

• davida would appreciate assistance on the autoconfiguration branch. (The awesome create-a-new-account screen where you just enter your e-mail address and it figures out most/all of the details for you.)
  • Cert dialog improvements post b1 would be useful.
• bienvenu: Go download and try out release candidate builds
• wsmwk: When trying the candidate builds, checkout the address book and message reader pane

Action Items

New

• Drivers to review blocker nomination list for beta 1
• Thunderbird 3 Beta 2 planning and scheduling
• Add simon and gozer to drivers list

Open

• davida: needs to identify the major work items for thunderbird 3 and break them down by the beta/release they will be in.
• Release Thunderbird 3 Beta 1

Thunderbird 3 Beta 1

• bienvenu is release driver
• gozer is build engineer
• String freeze from: 2008-11-13
• Code Freeze date: 2008-11-25
• RC 1 builds available here, in 30+ locales : http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/nightly/3.0b1-candidates/build1/

• Blockers/Wanted
  • TB 3.0b1 - blocking: 5
  • TB 3.0b1 - wanted: ?
• Proposed Blocking
  • Proposed Blockers (b1): ?
  • Proposed Blockers (b? + milestone): ?
• Fixed:
  • TB 3.0b1 - blocking: ?
  • TB 3.0b1 - wanted: ?

Thunderbird 3

• Draft Thunderbird:Thunderbird3:DevRoadmap identifies major work items on the plate for Tb3 -- much of it needs scheduling, owning, breakdown.
  • DevRoadmap is updated. What left to do on Calendar is not clear.
  • Overall progress is very good.
  • folks interested in helping with front-end stuff, some simple, should ask in #maildev

Roundtable

• Status Updates
  • davida: standard8 added a new two week goals section in his status report, good idea for all of us to start doing
• Group Feed
  • davida: team-thunderbird twitter account experimenting for status updates during the week
• Thunderbird Add-on documentation
  • davida: Need for documentation for addons for new work like gloda, do we need a #addons? Other channels for communication?
  • dmose: There are dvantages to have addon conversation on #maildev, can make argument to have separate channel, already #extdev for addon development
  • davida: #maildev for now for Add-on discussion, but will revisit

Status Updates

dmose

• hacked on (and mostly finished) the patches relating to JavaScript execution in messages prefs

nth10sd

• Sporadically online this week.

Standard8

• Reviews and Beta 1 diagnostics/help
• Password Manager
  • WIP for SMTP, registers smtp + smtps protocols (just got working, probably needs some tidy up), prompt & saving should work.
  • Main issues remaining:
    • Password migration from existing builds
    • Ensuring POP/IMAP/News protocols work
• Leak & Bloat Tests:
  • bug 465968 MailNews leak & bloat runtest.py needs to work for other apps/build configurations
  • Looked at hooking up mozmill to Leak & Bloat tests
    • Had some problems with mozmill & easy_install (wasn't including extension in the installation), this is now fixed by mozmill
    • Currently trying to get embedded mozmill to start up Thunderbird with mozmill extension included.
• Beta 1 bugs:
• bug 463560 Crash when selecting recipient from contacts sidebar [@ nsTreeSelection::GetSingle] (this was a work around for the core bug).
  • Also testcase and fix for core bug 399227 Crash @ nsTreeSelection::GetSingle, null mTree
  • bug 467261 White strips down left and right side of main mail window
  • Diagnosed bug 467511 - locales incorrectly managing bloat strings, and therefore add & edit address book cards not working.
  • bug 466311 Accounts & folders missing - added catch for an exception to try and help the problem.
• Misc
  • bug 199809 Memory leak in notification handler in nsMsgSendLater
  • bug 460941 DIR_Shutdown not always called on shutdown (fixes memory leak seen in some instances and ensures prefs tidied correctly).

Two week goals (start of week 1):

• Move to toolkit password manager.
• Move Leak and Bloat tests to be controlled by MozMill.
• Write down extended roadmap overview for the address book (based on discussion during MoMo work week).

bienvenu

• Reviews and 3.0 B1 driving
• Worked on release notes for 3.0 B1
• Fixed bug 467288 - Accounts and folders, and mail missing on startup
• Fixed double fetch of 1:* flags on condstore servers in some situations, bug 466891
• Fixed updating thread counts in cross-folder saved searches, bug 466241
• Fixed drag and drop to set the last move/copy target uri correctly, bug 466259

emre

• bug 464784: Landed
• bug 457342: Landed
• AutoSync Policy: Tested with davida to find out possible improvements in the policy. One bug filed bug 467041, scheduled for beta2.
• Resumed work on bug 257942.

gozer

• Build
  • Thunderbird 3 Beta 1 Build 1

clarkbw

• Continued Work on
  • Conversation List
    • davida converted to XBL in the exptoolbar
    • working on new iteration of the list view
  • Conversation Reader
    • davida is converting to XBL in the exptoolbar
  • Moved address book experiment out of exptoolbar. It will find a new home soon.

• Reviewed
  • bug 456379 — lightning calendar/task toolbars

• Two Week Goals
  • Push new iteration of Conversation List into exptoolbar
  • Review Conversation Reader and continue to iterate on

beckley

Penelope

• Synced to THUNDERBIRD_3_0b1_BUILD1 source code in preparation of the next beta of Eudora 8/Penelope
• Lots of mods to the Customize Toolbar dialog and tabs fixes with latest TB changes
• bug 464110 Toolbar Customization dialog only opens once per session
• bug 435567 would like to open new tabs with middle-click
• bug 466046 MsgOpenNewTabForMessage() broken when specifying a message
• bug 401293 Do not request IMAP capability command if server announce it in greetings

rebron

• PR prep for TB 3 Beta 1.

Attendees

davida,asuth,dmose,bienvenu,standard8,emre,kairo,beckley,clarkbw,wsmwk