SeaMonkey/StatusMeetings/2009-03-24

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SeaMonkey Meeting Details

• Time: March 24, 2009, 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) We should assign people to the open items.

NEW

• ?

OPEN

CLOSED

• Find a volunteer to drive the Modern theme updates into the tree. [KaiRo]
  • Posted about it on my blog, a guy contacted me and started to post patches, stuff needs more work though.
• Make sure a bug is filed to create the UI for the mail archiving function available in the backend. [IanN]
  • bug 482458 filed.
• Create new bugzilla components (to match Firefox and Thunderbird): [Ratty]
  • "Session Restore". Yes.
  • Tabs and Toolbars. KIV for the time being.
  • Note: Meta bug is bug 471534.

SeaMonkey 2 Beta 1

Bug Queries

open blockers all blockers blocker requests

• SeaMonkey developers will need to nominate bugs that they think should be considered for blocking Beta 1.
• Target/freeze dates? Sync with Thunderbird 3.0 beta 3 again?
  • Firefox 3.5b4 has a code freeze on April 6th and planned release on April 14th; Thunderbird 3.0b3 has strict freeze on April 28th, target ship date on May 5th.

Longer-Term SeaMonkey 2 Planning

open wanted wanted requests

Major wanted/needed features:

• bug 381157 Download manager backend.
  • Addressing review comments, fixed up a few local bugs.
  • KaiRo working on progress dialog UI in bug 483241.
• bug 472001 UI for download manager.
  • Did some testing with Callek's backend patch, looks good so far. Need to do some testing on Modern and need to port tests from toolkit.
  • Also did some work on the rewrite and redesign of progress windows, see bug 483241
• Toolbar customization:
  • bug 413385 MailNews.
    • Started work on this bug. Started a thread in mozilla.dev.apps.seamonkey regarding some UI design issues that I needed feedback on.
  • Filed a UI bug 481862 to get suitable images for small icon mode in MailNews.
  • Did some work in bug 464653 to fine-tune the customize context menu item.
  • Plans on other components?
    • None at the moment. Volunteers welcome.
    • Customizable Composer toolbars would save us a whole pref panel.
• bug 456757 Modern theme update.
  • Some patches posted, needs more work to not revert recent Modern changes.
• bug 460699 Make the default theme look better on mac.
  • status/progress?
• bug 410613 OpenSearch. helpwanted.
  • We need to check if OpenSearch can support all our existing functionality, for example the INTEPRETS section in Sherlock search plugins. Mnyromyr will check on that.
• bug 460953 Port jminta's kill-rdf to SeaMonkey where applicable.
  • status/progress?
• bug 415372 Implement Feed Preview.
  • status/progress?
  • bug 471346 (Port GetDefaultFeedReader to SeaMonkey shell service).
    • Waiting for review.
• bug 460960 Port Thunderbird tabbed interface to MailNews.
  • status/progress?
• bug 348720 New icon set for "SeaMonkey Default Theme".
  • status/progress?
• bug 465504 Include an identity indicator in primary chrome (EV certificate UI).
  • 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).

asrail

• Feed Preview (bug 415372) is waiting for review from Neil.

Callek

• Reviewed/discussed some client.py changes.
• Ported a security bug to SeaMonkey, and backported to TB and SM 1.8.1 (waiting on approval to land)
• Iterating my DLMGR work.

IanN

• bug 471932 Do some tidy up/fixing of feed subscription and related code - fixes lots of issues with the new shared code - patch has landed!
• Usual reviewing and commenting.
• Continued work on looking at TNEF attachments.

KaiRo

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

mcsmurf

• Fixed bug 483054 downloads.rdf import requires DateEnded but xpfe files don't have it, needed for importing downloads.rdf to the toolkit/ DM file format (sqlite).
• Found a new import bug (related to Places) bug 484175 History Import from SeaMonkey 1.1.x is not working, have no good idea yet why this is broken (see bug for more details).
• Waiting for review on bug 467249 Modify folderWidgets.xml to be able to XBLify the Go menu in MailNews, found&fixed some Thunderbird bug while creating a new patch for this bug.
• Waiting for review on bug 471346 Port GetDefaultFeedReader to SeaMonkey shell service.

Ratty

• Bugs fixed:
  • bug 478575 system background colors not applied to tab preview for a new tab still loading.
  • bug 482291 Implement getBrowserAtIndex() and getBrowserIndexForDocument().
• Currently working on bugs:
  • bug 435652 Scrollbars become hidden/disappear when the window gets smaller/shrinks (but not too small). But blocked by Core bug 482955 landing on 1.9.1.
  • bug 479992 Better fix for the "Halo"/Extended border around buttons on modern theme. But blocked by Core bug 456219 landing on 1.9.1.
  • bug 413385 Implement Customizable Toolbars in SeaMonkey MailNews. Started work. Posted request for feedback on UI design issues in mozilla.dev.apps.seamonkey.
  • Bug triage.
  • Mozillazine discussions and agitprop.

sgautherie

• Fixed (or in-progress) SeaMonkey bugs:
  • bug 482686 comm-central should pull Venkman from hg rather than CVS.
  • bug 482768 xpcshell tests broken on trunk due to mozilla-central changes.
• Fixed Core/... (but SM related) bugs:
  • bug 479978 remove references to MOZ_PROFILE from the build system.
• And working on other areas... like:
  • infrastructure to run tests.
  • filing bugs for leaks in (TUnit and Reftest) tests.
  • doing an (experimental) Windows mozilla-central SeaMonkey build, reporting to bug 470184 issue tracking; hoping for bug 464325 new tinderboxes.

Standard8

• See Thunderbird/StatusMeetings/2009-03-24#Standard8

Any other business?

• KaiRo: "Reward the SeaMonkey devs" idea - list ways how people can reward individual SeaMonkey devs for the work they are doing.
• Google Summer of Code.
  • Google Page.
  • Brainstorming page.
  • Projects with confirmed mentors.
  • Please add your suggestions to the brainstorming page, doesn't matter if you don't want to be a mentor, ideas are the important part at this stage. Remember it needs to be about an 8-week chunk of work.
  • Students started discussing ideas on 18th March, and start applying on 23rd March.
• DST: Can we keep the time of the meeting to 1300 UTC even though the next meeting will be after the start of DST in Europe? Ratty.