Thunderbird/StatusMeetings/2008-10-14

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Thunderbird Meeting Details

• Tuesday, Oct 14, 16:30 UTC (9:30am Pacific, 12:30pm Eastern)
• How to dial-in

Agenda

• Who's taking minutes? --> asuth
• Minute taking Schedule. Talk to davida for schedule changes/additions.

Action Items

• gozer to file bug re getting alpha bits signed (bug 459400)
• gozer to ping mrz about separate messaging crash-stats server
• dmose to do another round of updates on reviewers

Shredder Alpha 3

• Shredder Alpha 3
• Standard8 is the release driver
• wsmwk is the QA lead of Beta 1

Thunderbird 3 Beta 1

• bienvenu is release driver
• Proposed String freeze date: 2008-11-13
• Code Freeze date: 2008-11-18

Thunderbird 3

• Draft Thunderbird:Thunderbird3:DevRoadmap identifies major work items on the plate for Tb3 -- much of it needs scheduling, owning, breakdown.
  • folks interested in helping with front-end stuff, some simple, should ask in #maildev

Roundtable

Status Updates

dmose

• lots of Gloda review work
• impromptu addressbook directional meeting
• booked FSOSS trip & prepared for talk
• driving work
• discussion about gloda-as-ext-vs-module
• gloda & calendar testing & bug reporting
• various personal organization/project work
• Thunderbird reviewer update work

Standard8

• Reviews & Driving
• Wrote some pages to guide/aid future releases:
  • Thunderbird:Doing_Releases
  • Thunderbird:Doing_Releases/Writing_Release_Notes
• Created new page for MailNews:Automation With Gristmill and filed some bugs
• Landed Growl integration patch bug 308552 and filed follow-up bugs.
• Autocomplete
  • Dropped old xpfe based local autocomplete code.
  • LDAP transfer still to do, WIP patch for sorting out connections, but still quite a way to go on that.
• Address Book
  • Fixed bug 459358 It is possible to attempt to create new cards/lists in read-only address books.
• Misc
  • Did some debugging on IMAP fake server hangs bug 437193
  • Wrote some patches and test cases for bug 326809 Modernize nsIMsgHeaderParser - |string| and |wstring| vs AString and AUTF8String

gozer

• Build
  • Thunderbird 3 Alpha 3: DONE
  • Sunbird comm-central buildbots: ALL GREEN
  • Lightning comm-central buildbots: ALL GREEN
  • Leak/Bloat builds
    • One OS X builder is successfully reporting numbers (in MozillaTest)
    • Still need to plug-in TB's special profile setup (right now, running a vanilla start/stop cycle)
    • Still need to bring up the other 2 platforms
  • Turns out we are most likely hit by (hg bug 1320)
    • we are trying a workaround for this issue bug 459396

• L10N
  • Merged our changes back into l10n.mozilla.org
  • Figured out how to link into Simile (i.e. tb30 green locales)