SeaMonkey/StatusMeetings/2012-02-07

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SeaMonkey Meeting Details

• Time: 7 February, 2012, 13:00 UTC
• Location: #seamonkey IRC channel

Agenda

• Who's taking minutes? -> TBD
• Nominees for Friends of the Fish Tank:
  • Please note A person or entity can't be nominated twice in a row.

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

• IanN to write the "Friends of the Fish Tank" F.A.Q.

Status of the SeaMonkey Buildbot Master and Tree

• Current Issues with existing machines
  • one linux VM -- Hosted on parallels, kernel panicking, No bug yet, but will get it done ASAP
  • problems with creating a second linux VM -- will either fix or reclone this week.
  • one win VM, switched from FAT32 to NTFS for one of its drives, need to recreate folders appropriately.
• "Where do we stand with the machine(s) right now?"
  • bug 721516 migrate seamonkey systems out of sjc1/scl2 and into scl3/scl1.
    • (2012-02-02) The iX boxes are now located at SJC1 they have been put into production for Callek and team.

Release Train

• 2.7b4 was shipped on January 26
• 2.7 was shipped on January 31.
• 2.8b1 was shipped on February 4.

Extensions Compatibility Tracking

We need some help with the add-ons listed under the "2.0x" heading. Anything above it will work out of the box with SM 2.7 and later (yay to compatible-by-default!). Perhaps Ratty can go through his xSidebar site and check which add-ons are not compatible with at least SM 2.1 - that would help, too.

• Since xSidebar itself is not compatible with any recent SM version, it should not be listed as a featured add-on on AMO. Who can make that change?

• Addon Compatibility Listings, mostly maintained by InvisibleSmiley
  • Recent changes can be found here.
  • Restructured for compatible-by-default.
• ACR 1.0.3 has been released with a fix for broken AOM search.
• Enigmail provides versions for release (AMO) and all branches (Enigmail nightly page). The current release is compatible with both 2.5 and 2.6.
• Lightning provides versions for the current stable and beta releases (AMO) and nightlies for trunk and Aurora (Calendar Versions page). Lightning 1.3b1 which works with SM 2.8b1 is available from AMO (Development Channel).
• Firebug is compatible but not flagged as such on AMO (depends on automatic tests being set up and run on the Firebug side: bug 680837, needs a Python coder). Stable Firebug version 1.9.x works with any recent SM version. FB 1.10a1 works with trunk, 1.10a2 is broken but 1.10a3 should be OK again (cf. FB issue 5188).
• Besides the above, we should also take a look at other add-ons that are important for our users when they switch to 2.x.
  • Useful query: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/seamonkey/extensions/?sort=popular
• The SeaMonkey Features page links to sub-pages for all recent SM versions, including those in development. Please help InvisibleSmiley add major features to the respective pages, ideally as they land. These pages are used when creating release notes, so the more up-to-date the better.

2.x (Last, Current, Next)

• 2.6 had ~x ADU by last Thursday and 2.6.1 has had ~y downloads so far.
  • Of the released versions, as of last Thursday, we have a% on 2.0, b% on 2.1-2.3, c% on 2.4, d% on 2.5 and e% on 2.6. So, in the last two weeks, ~f k (an additional g% of ADU) have migrated to 2.5 or above.
• Figure out what is preventing people from moving from 2.0.x to the latest versions.
  • Some people cannot upgrade due to system requirements (OS version, processor capabilities etc.)
  • Perhaps putting resources into getting certain extensions working with SM 2.4 and above (those that won't work with SM 2.7 automatically due to compatible-by-default extensions).
  • Still need volunteers to look at what is keeping people at below 2.4. IanN could try knocking something up and send it round members lists for polishing but he's not on all the channels (mozillazine, etc) to post it to when finished.

Usual reminders:

• Please make sure that anything that landed on comm-beta (for TB) or mozilla-beta (for FF) which affected non-shared code and which fixed regressions will be fixed on our side, too. Please mark bugs we feel *need* to land on a particular train tracking+ or tracking? so that when we to do a release we can be sure that we don't miss anything.
  • Priority should be given to fixing regressions ASAP. Also keep an eye on and prioritize bugs to be ported from FF/TB that land on branches (Aurora, Beta). We need to keep an eye especially on Session Restore, Sync, Tabbrowser and Address Book.
  • Be careful not to break code shared with Thunderbird, otherwise patches might have to be backed out of string frozen repositories.

2.7

open tracking (0) tracking requests (0) targeted (0) fixed (30)

• One tracked 2.5 issue still open.
  • 2.1 through 2.6.1 have NOT included the ka locale. The last release with ka locale shipped was 2.0.14 and the ka l10n maintainers have not yet updated for changes in later SeaMonkey versions.
  • Callek now needs to morph bug 667147 into removing |ka| from our [current] automation entirely (all-locales). Callek will look at best locale to transition any ka users to.
• The New 2.7 Features page has a comprehensive list of features.

2.Next

• InvisibleSmiley created a restartless add-on (available on AMO) for SM 2.8 (now in Beta) which adds an "Add-ons" options to the list of engines on the Sync pref panel.
• Remember to help update the New Features pages as we go along.

Feature List, Planning

Bug statistics for last two (full) weeks: 46 new, 22 fixed, 13 triaged.

• Medium triaging effort.
• Good further triage targets could come out of looking at the component bug counts, pick yours!

Open reviews/flags: 27 review 10 super-review 0 ui-review 7 feedback

Major wanted/needed features:

Active

• bug 606683 Allow customization of toolbar in Composer and MailNews Composition [IanN].
  • Progressing slowly, still waiting on reviews from TB side. Full customization has to go to 2.next (currently 2.6 but could be pushed back further) as it needs work on TB too which is taking a while to get reviews on, plus feedback from kaze.
  • IanN is still wading through the unpicking of Composer/Mail Compose code in the dependent bugs. After that he will be reworking his customising patches.
• bug 477845 Build a standalone (Comm-central) Composer. [kaze]
  • kaze has done a bit of work in this bug recently. Building on Windows works. Now supports debug builds on Linux if tests are disabled (--disable-tests). Still a lot to do.
  • IanN was supposed to help get builds working with --enable-tests.
    • Will look into this once he gets his customization patches reworked.
• Real full-screen (bug 610509) and DOM full-screen (bug 701714)
  • patches provided by Mnyromyr and InvisibleSmiley. Otherwise stalled. :-(

Needing help, Unowned, Stalled

• Kill-RDF:
  • bug 657607 Port jminta's kill-rdf to SeaMonkey where applicable Part 2 [meta].
  • bug 657604 Remove the RDF global object. [serge]
• bug 436794 Enable Mac OS X system address book per default and add UI.
  • SM UI needed, unowned, helpwanted.
• bug 449728 Drag tabs between windows.
• bug 477840 Backport KompoZer to Composer (Depends on bug 477845).
  • kaze has done a ton of work there. We still need to work out some organizational issues. At the moment there is no active interest from MoMo for bringing standalone composer into comm-central. That's something we (KaiRo and kaze) will have to negotiate with the Thunderbird team (Standard8).
• bug 507841 Port Bug 422814 - Make account configuration quick, easy, and more secure (autoconfig, Quick Account Setup).
• bug 533908 SeaMonkey Mail: tabs not restored [misak].
• bug 523274 Complete new default theme icon set.
  • A list of TODO icons is up in the bug.
• bug 526210 Update the icon set for the SeaMonkey Modern Theme.
  • bug 548778 New communicator icons (based on Strata theme) for SeaMonkey. Some proposed icons got posted, we should take a look how to get that contribution into the product.
  • The rest is unowned so far.
• bug 87098 [SeaMonkey] Delete key should delete location bar history list entry.
  • Note: Our location bar history doesn't and can't use autocomplete at all.
• bug 677484 Individual SeaMonkey components are not properly handled by the Windows 7 taskbar.
• bug 654009 Reply to list: automatically determine From: address
  • Note: The actual task here is to port bug 45715 "Reply to List" [button/(context) menu item]
• bug 664309 Make the built-in ChatZilla display a cZ icon in SeaMonkey (now helpwanted)

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).

aceman has been doing some work that touches SM as well as TB especially around feeds, which is good stuff.

InvisibleSmiley

• Fixed:
  • bug 724311 Start page JS (upgrade nagging) fails to identify 2.10a1 nightly correctly
  • bug 724076 Update SeaMonkey website for 2.8 Beta 1
  • bug 722405 Update SeaMonkey website for 2.7 Final release
  • bug 721881 Port |bug 666306 - Video content should become large play button ...| to Modern
  • bug 721583 Make lightweight themes / Personas work in the Download Manager window
  • bug 721286 Update SeaMonkey website for 2.7 Beta 5
  • bug 721021 Port |bug 593321 - Opening saved .EML with empty subject has wrong window title|
  • bug 712699 Create/Update 2.7 Release Notes
  • bug 713087 Port |bug 534956 - Sync add-ons| (restartless add-on for SM 2.8)
  • bug 718310 Port |bug 526998 - Implement F2 keyboard shortcut for renaming focused attachments when composing (on Windows and Unix)|

• ToDo:
  • bug 701714 Add support for DOM full-screen
  • bug 640420 Add draggable splitter between urlbar and searchbar
  • bug 711334 Be explicit that TLS version is 1.0
  • look into
    • bug 698038 Update Preferences help for the new section to control crash report
    • bug 696757 Port "Time range to clear" from Firefox to SeaMonkey's "Clear private data" dialog
  • track
    • bug 687316 (Remaining) Sync changes to port to Suite

sgautherie

• Fixed SeaMonkey (related) bugs:
  • bug 707039 [SeaMonkey] mochitest-chrome: "TEST-UNEXPECTED-FAIL ... textLTR.openPopup is not a function at ... test_bug649840.xul:39"
  • bug 714257 Package 'necko_websocket.xpt' in SeaMonkey after |Bug 640003 - WebSockets - upgrade to ietf-07|
  • bug 716395 Port |Bug 716397 - [Linux] "Warning: package error or possible missing or unnecessary file: bin/libmozglue.so"| to SeaMonkey
  • bug 718912 Port |Bug 717975 - only expose m-c implementation of navigator.mozApps on b2g| to SeaMonkey
  • bug 719325 Package dom_network.xpt : Port Bug 677166 (Implement Network Status API) Part 2 Add .mozConnection to navigator
  • bug 721357 Support 'mailbloat' test target in SeaMonkey
  • bug 721533 [SeaMonkey] "Warning: package error or possible missing or unnecessary file: bin/components/chardet.xpt"
• Fixed Core bugs:
  • bug 649840 RTL on forms inputs autocomplete
  • bug 720095 SimpleTest/EventUtils.js: fix some strict warnings and nits
  • bug 720952 [MacOSX] Some (or random?) builders report "Typelibs contain definitions of interface nsIDocCharset with different IIDs!" when "Linking .xpt files..."
  • bug 720955 pyxpt: Report IIDs when they differ
  • bug 722019 Investigate status of cbox-dis.gif (and related)
• Fixed other projects bugs:
  • [Firefox] bug 652297 Stop trying to package MSVC DLLs in debug Windows Firefox
  • [Firefox] bug 721535 [Firefox] "Warning: package error or possible missing or unnecessary file: bin/components/chardet.xpt"

Any other business?

• Need to review project areas
  • IanN has put out a final draft of the project areas list, and will then confirm that anyone who is not in the loop already has been consulted.
  • We will also need to update the Mozilla-wide list of official reviewers
• Extended Support Releases (ESR)
  • At the moment looks like that will be based off Gecko 10 so that will be 2.7 for us. Assuming we have the machines, we will also have an ESR which might help move some of those still on 2.0 up to 2.7. We're unlikely to move to ESR until Gecko 10.0.1 or 10.0.2.
  • Our ESR should use the same branch as Firefox ESR so any Security and Stability "extended" fixes for Gecko will be picked up by the SeaMonkey ESR.
  • An ESR (Extended Security Release) may not be a given for us out of the gate. Callek thinks we should revisit that, separately, once it is clearer what MoCo's general plans for their marketing/target/support levels etc. are.
  • mcsmurf is on the ESR mailing list and has volunteered to be our ESR goto guy.
• Geolocation
  • Geolocation now works out of the box. MoCo turned it on by default for all applications that build off mozilla-central.
  • For comm-beta all we need to do is (bug 494421) to add pref("geo.wifi.uri", "https://www.google.com/loc/json"); to browser-prefs.js. However we're not even sure we are legally allowed to ship with the URL in, we might need to actually put in a pref to disable that in newer builds.