SeaMonkey/StatusMeetings/2008-12-02

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SeaMonkey Meeting Details

• Time: December 2, 2008, 13:00 UTC
• Location: #seamonkey IRC channel

Agenda

• Who's taking minutes? --> Ratty

Action Items

(who needs to do what that hasn't been recorded in a bug)

• ?

SeaMonkey 2 Alpha 2

Bug Queries

open blockers all blockers blocker requests

As we do not have a flag for Core/MailNews Core, here are the ones for TB

open blockers all blockers blocker requests

Tree is FROZEN for this alpha right now!

• What's left to fix?
  • bug 467091 has WIP patch by mstrange.
  • Ratty has a patch for blocker request bug 465089 that has approval 2.0a2 and is ready for checkin.
  • We probably need to look at the topcrash bugs and see if there are any that we can wait for or minimise in some way top crashers
• When can we start builds, when release?
• Who can sum up changes for the relnotes? Any issues we need to relnote? What to put into the announcement?
  • We can ask Jens to help with the relnotes - Ratty.

Longer-Term SeaMonkey 2 Planning

open wanted wanted requests

Major wanted/needed features:

• bug 381157 Download manager.
  • Progress for an actual DLMGR is non-existent. I did create a patch that will make depend builds work right when I land DLMGR though and got that checked in bug 463824 - Callek.
• bug 390025 Kill-wallet (password manager).
  • status/progress?
• bug 382187 Places history.
  • Some more work on the code happened, would like to land this early in alpha3 cycle to get testing and followup work.
• bug 345526 Reimplement FAYT.
  • landed for alpha2
• bug 36810 Session restore.
  • still waiting for review - can Andrew do that or do we need a different reviewer?
• bug 394288 / bug 413385 Toolbar customization.
  • bug 428216 landed.
    • But caused a global UI preference to be ignored. I am addressing this in bug 465089 (Default toolbar appearance should follow the appearance settings in the Preferences window) - Ratty.
    • Some polish bugs were also filed due to this patch landing.
  • Toolkit bug 407725 was in mozilla-central for a brief period.
    • But got backed out due to intermittent test failures, due to race conditions. Callek has fixed the test in (bug 467209.
    • There are some other known minor issues, one probably easy fix of the patch itself (bug 467272), another is a Firefox extension breakage (bug 467045) that should be fixed in the now updated extension. Another is Thunderbird expecting old behaviour (bug 467012. Gavin is eager to get this in again, as are we. Probably will need separate trunk and branch checkins now.
• bug 456757 Modern theme update.
  • Kuden has delivered an updated /mozapps/ in the form of a theme jar file, and is now working on global/
  • Some perquisite changes in Modern need to be landed first bug 465924 (Modern Update: changes in global/).
• bug 460699 Make the default theme look better on mac.
  • status/progress?
• bug 454847 Fishcam update.
  • Waiting on new http://www.fishcam.com/ (by the original fishcam creator) might just be what we are looking for.
• bug 410613 OpenSearch. status/progress? helpwanted?
• bug 453797 SeaMonkey installer improvements.
  • landed for alpha2
• Handling bug 420506 Thunderbird kill-rdf.
  • bug 460952 Ensure Thunderbird kill-rdf doesn't break SeaMonkey.
    • status/progress?
  • bug 460953 Port jminta's kill-rdf to SeaMonkey where applicable.
    • status/progress?
• bug 415372 Implement Feed Preview.
  • status/progress?
• bug 460960 Port Thunderbird tabbed interface to MailNews.
  • status/progress?

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).

Callek

• bug 463824 Created a patch that will make depend builds work right when I land DLMGR and got that checked-in.
• bug 467209 Fixed a test that failed causing Neil's toolbar customize fixes to be backed out, was in-fact a random test.
• Various discussions in the newsgroups.

KaiRo

• As always, my blog has more detailed status about my work.

mcsmurf

• Finished installer patch and checked it in
• Started working on bug 444913 - Port |Bug 413781 – XBLify folder-selection menus| to SeaMonkey

Ratty

• Dealt with fallout from bug 428216 and filed some follow-up bugs.
• Track fallout and regressions from bug 407725 landing.
• Worked on some minor bugs e.g. bug 414014.
• Did some triaging.
• Responded to user concerns in newsgroup and forum (mozillazine) postings.

Any other business?

The Talos Firefox 2 boxes are being shut down. Will this affect our testing coverage?