Thunderbird/StatusMeetings/2008-12-30

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Thunderbird Meeting Details

• Tuesday, Dec 30, 17:30 UTC (9:30am Pacific, 12:30pm Eastern)
• How to dial-in

Agenda

• Who’s taking minutes? –> standard8
• Minute taking Schedule. Talk to davida for schedule changes/additions.

Calls For Help

Action Items

New

Open

• dmose – Draw up straw man schedule for shipping one month after Firefox.
• dmose – Suggest to drivers about a new flag for potential post-TB3 blockers.
• clarkbw – send mail about drivers about triaging 3.0b1 wanted this week
• dmose – triage [tb3needs] bugs

Closed

Thunderbird 3 Beta 2

• For reference, Gecko 1.9.1b3: Jan 13 Code Freeze, Jan 15 QA, Jan 26 Release according to their plan.

• clarkbw is release driver
• gozer is build engineer
• Proposed: Slushy string freeze from: Monday 2nd February 23:59 PST
• Proposed: Firm string freeze and slushy Code freeze from: Thursday 5th February 23:59 PST

• Blockers/Wanted
  • TB 3.0b2 – blocking: 75 (-1)
  • TB 3.0b2 – wanted: 27 (0)
• Proposed Blocking
  • Proposed Blockers (b? + milestone): 9 (0)
• Fixed:
  • TB 3.0b2 – blocking: 18 (+2)
  • TB 3.0b2 – wanted: 11 (0)

• clarkbw will send out email to drivers for wanted/blocker triaging.

Thunderbird 3

• Thunderbird:Thunderbird3:DevRoadmap

QA Updates

• topcrashes
  • bug 471492 crash [@ nsImapMailFolder::CopyMessagesOffline]
  • bug 422907 nsMsgLocalMailFolder::GetTrashFolder (rootFolder is null)
  • bug 470804 NS_GetInnermostURI (CAPS?) (TB2) (no “owner”)
  • bug 470808 nsProxyEventObject::CallMethod (imap)
  • bug 470835 nsMsgLocalMailFolder::AddMessage (should be fixed in 12-23 nightly) (optimistically gone)
• We believe we have now have fixed the problems with crash reports on Mac. Update to builds post 20081224 and we’ll be able to get proper crash reports.
  • Standard8 will to let folks know to upgrade.

Roundtable

Status Updates

davida

dmose

• 2010 goals discussion
• MoMo board meeting stuff
• strategy discussions
• font discussions
• filter subsystem architecture discussion
• gloda-by-default discussion
• upcoming MoMo website change review
• branching/tinderbox discussion
• JS-in-mail work
• SF office space spec work

nth10sd

• Now back full steam post-Christmas & through the new year.
• Usual occasional bug triage.
• Working on first automated TB litmus test 5426.
• Got some TB patches into MozMill.
  • getMail3PaneController() should work perfectly.
  • getAddrbkController() should also work (almost) perfectly.
  • Now there’s only a non-working new/getMsgComposeController() left..
    • (Taken out since there’s a simple keypress workaround)

jcranmer

Standard8

• Reviews
• Password Manager
  • Almost complete patch now available on bug 433316
  • Need to sort out “password protect cache” – have some ideas, hope to solidify this week.
  • Also still need one sr in ldap before it can land bug 419595
• Mozmill in Leak & Bloat
  • Did some work to simplify running mozmill with TB and highlight the parts that are still preventing us from running the tests automatically, raised bug 471510 to cover the details
• Misc
  • bug 468108 Pointed the l10n dashboard to the right repository (mozilla-1.9.1) for l10n comparisons etc

Two week goals (End of week 2):

• Complete Password Manager migration
  • See above, almost complete
• Complete moving Leak and Bloat to Mozmill
  • Blocked by Mozmill issues bug 471510
• Lead Address Book discussions
  • Delayed due to Christmas
• Investigate fixing LDAP Issues with threads and shutdown.
  • Delayed due to Christmas
• Look at Performance tests
  • Delayed due to Christmas

Two week goals (Start of week 1):

• Complete Password Manager migration
• Complete moving Leak and Bloat to Mozmill (if Mozmill issues are resolved)
• Investigate if there is a simpler way to switch fully to toolkit autocomplete without doing too much work.
• Look at Performance tests
  • Get some rough ideas of what & how.
  • See if we can get a Ts structure in place (or something else)
    • This would be useful for jemalloc and assessing implementing a packages-static file for unix.

asuth

• Holiday last week, half-time this week.

bienvenu

• Reviews
• Fixed bug 470011 – playback of offline imap operations needs to check if dest folder exists
• Fixed exception thrown when loading .eml files, bug 470119
• make forward inline not include the references headers for mail messages, bug 464782
• make updating news counts not leave all the .msf files open bug 470219
• Fixed imap auto sync not to leave db’s open, bug 470221

Two week goals (end of week 2):

Two week goals (week 2)

• Finish folder archiving work. bug 451995
  • made imap folders default to archive folder on imap server; made “Archives” localizable.
  • several dependent bugs fixed or awaiting review
    • respect personal namespace when creating imap folder under root, bug 470269
    • make addsubfolder notify for new imap folders, make sure root folder has hierarchy delimiter cached, bug 470151

Two week goals (week 1)

• Try to knock off some beta 2 blockers between the holiday festivities
• Get initial archive patch reviewed, perhaps in smaller chunks.

emre

• Two week goals
  • Finalizing activity manager and activity manager integration of core components.
    • bug 257942 in review
  • Implementing a two level auto-sync model for TB-Idle cases.
    • bug 471208 filed, and work initiated

• Bugs
  • bug 470447 landed

gozer

• Build
  • Rewrote the unittest buildbot master to be branch-capable
    • Moving builders over to it as we speak
  • Mac OS X now using Dwarf (crash symbols issues seem resolved too)

• Web
  • SpreadThunderbird Google Analytics live.
  • Got a fully working bouncer installation, need to think about production setup

• Personnal
  • On vacation: Jan 9th – Jan 16th (on call)

clarkbw

• release driving
  • reviewing dates
• catching up with bugs
• small calendaring experiment
• blogging

wsmwk

• crash monitoring
• attacked SM mailnews: message display critical bugs
• litmus test cleanup continues

beckley

Penelope

KaiRo

rkent

rebron

• Web site in is production with silver orange.

Two Week Goal

• Continued web site work, coordinate web site localization.
• 2009 event planning.
• Continue work on Support/Help plan.

sipaq

mkmelin

Attendees

dmose, nth10sd, standard8, asuth, bienvenu, emre, gozer, clarkbw, wsmwk, rkent, rebron, jminta