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5-April-2016

Thunderbird: 2016-04-05

Filed under: Posts — Tags: — Jesper Kristensen @ 11:00 pm

Thunderbird notes 2016-04-05. NOON PT (Pacific). For meeting time, previous notes and call-in details see https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird/StatusMeetings

Attendees

marcoagpinto, aceman, ba, Jorg K, Paenglab, wsmwk, rkent, mkmelin, makemyday

MAIN FOCUS OF MEETING

  • release 45

Action items from last meetings

Current status / Announcements

Current Release Critical Issues

Leave critical bugs here until confirmed fixed. If confirmed, then remove.

blocking

  • bug 1224846 (esr45) – TEST-UNEXPECTED-FAIL | toolkit/components/osfile/tests/xpcshell/test_read_write.js
    • Fallen?
  • bug 1250723 (esr45) – startup CRASH: C-C TB ASSERTION: can’t be your own parent aka morkTable::AddRow (v45 topcrash)
    • rkent is taking this, reproducible result of exceeding limit of key size – FIXED, LANDED
  • bug 1251120 (esr45)- crash in nsMsgI18NConvertFromUnicode (v45 topcrash) – FIXED, LANDED
  • Bug 1162148 – Warning: Identity file /builds/.ssh/{ffxbld_rsa,tbirdbld_dsa} not accessible: No such file or directory (won’t be needed after esr38, fixed in 42) – status?
  • status TBD – bug 1182629 – update to 38.1.0 from 38.0.1 re-enables disabled Lightning
  • status TBD – bug 1176399 – Multiple master password when GMail OAuth2 is enabled
  • status TBD – bug 1176748 – fix main thread proxies to the migration code (jorgk and m_kato helped in past)
  • proxy (eg causing foxyproxy problems)
  • topcrash bug 1149287 is ** 31% of our crashes** – see below
  • bug 1211291 (esr38, unknown in esr45) – Folders are visible, but messages are not. (?related to bug 1211358 lightning chrome.manifest not updated in 38.3.0 ?)
    • nobody has a clue about what to do with this, leaning toward shipping 38.7.0 with not fix. (wsmwk) agree, ship without fixing it
  • Problems updating to 38.6 to do with Lightning bug 1249894 and its five duplicates. Two users attached their extensions folder.
    • Isn’t this the same as the one above, bug 1211291?

Version 45

  • tracking-tb45 flags: unfixed ?/+ – http://mzl.la/1PMzNiK
  • Items that may need to be checked and tested: gtk3, windows 10

Releases

  • Past
    • 45.0b1 2016-02-04 with GTK3 built but updates not enabled
    • 45.0b2 with GTK2 2016-02-19
    • 45.0b3 (shelved)
    • 38.6.0 2016-02-12
    • 38.7.0
    • 38.7.1 (shelved)
    • 38.7.2

Lightning

Past releases:

  • 4.0.7.2 (bundled)
  • 4.0.5.2 (AMO)

Upcoming releases:

  • 4.0.8 (bundled) (TB 38.6)
  • 4.7.0 – bug 1225778 (TB 45 tracking)

Round Table

Jorg K

  • Landed in last four weeks:
  • Awaiting review:

wsmwk

  • triage Neil review and NI requests
  • releases

rkent

  • donation website is “live” but procedures to report and spend income are not established. Meeting on Thursday 2016-04-07 with MoFo admin on this.
  • beginning to investigate bug 1260724 IMAP failing with godaddy servers in TB 38
  • investigated and landed bug 1250723 (esr45) – startup CRASH: C-C TB ASSERTION: can’t be your own parent aka morkTable::AddRow (v45 topcrash)
  • releases
  • I have a huge project to convert ExQuilla to JS (prototype for a possible similar conversion for Thunderbird) that will take the majority of my time for the next six months.

Question Time

rkent, there is no 64-bit version of TB 45 for Windows. It seems only 46+ but the next public will be 52. 🙁 Is there a possibility of compiling 45 in 64-bit?

  • Someone needs to work on the release engineering to figure out to enable those builds.

Help Wanted

  • Accessibility lead
  • Person comfortable (not necessarily technical experts) with Core type issues. Example, graphics to guide bug 1195947 Thunderbird hardware acceleration (HWA) issues to be resolved
  • Lead to run the donation campaign after TB 45 is released.

9-March-2016

Thunderbird: 2016-03-08

Filed under: Posts — Tags: — Jesper Kristensen @ 12:00 am

Thunderbird notes 2016-03-08. NOON PT (Pacific). For meeting time, previous notes and call-in details see https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird/StatusMeetings

Attendees

marcoagpinto, rkent, Paenglab, ba, Jorg K, aceman, mkmelin, wsmwk,MakeMyDay, Fallen

Action items from last meetings

Current status / Announcements

Current Release Critical Issues

Leave critical bugs here until confirmed fixed. If confirmed, then remove.

blocking

  • bug 1224846 (esr45) – TEST-UNEXPECTED-FAIL | toolkit/components/osfile/tests/xpcshell/test_read_write.js
    • Fallen?
  • bug 1250723 (esr45) – startup CRASH: C-C TB ASSERTION: can’t be your own parent aka morkTable::AddRow (v45 topcrash)
    • rkent is taking this, reproducible result of exceeding limit of key size
  • bug 1251120 (esr45)- crash in nsMsgI18NConvertFromUnicode (v45 topcrash)
    • We really need a reproducible case, individual messages don’t do the trick. (wsmwk reproduces 100%)
  • bug 1211291 (esr38, unknown in esr45) – Folders are visible, but messages are not. (?related to bug 1211358 lightning chrome.manifest not updated in 38.3.0 ?)
    • nobody has a clue about what to do with this, leaning toward shipping 38.7.0 with not fix. (wsmwk) agree, ship without fixing it
  • Bug 1162148 – Warning: Identity file /builds/.ssh/{ffxbld_rsa,tbirdbld_dsa} not accessible: No such file or directory (won’t be needed after esr38, fixed in 42) – status?
  • Problems updating to 38.6 to do with Lightning bug 1249894 and its five duplicates. Two users attached their extensions folder.
    • Isn’t this the same as the one above, bug 1211291?

important (but not top critical)

  • status TBD – bug 1182629 – update to 38.1.0 from 38.0.1 re-enables disabled Lightning
  • status TBD – bug 1176399 – Multiple master password when GMail OAuth2 is enabled
  • status TBD – bug 1176748 – fix main thread proxies to the migration code (jorgk and m_kato helped in past)
  • proxy (eg causing foxyproxy problems)
  • topcrash bug 1149287 is ** 31% of our crashes** – see below

Version 45

  • tracking-tb45 flags: unfixed ?/+ – http://mzl.la/1PMzNiK
  • Items that may need to be checked and tested: gtk3, windows 10

Releases

  • Past
    • 44.0b1 2016-01-18
    • 45.0b1 2016-02-04 with GTK3 built but updates not enabled
    • 45.0b2 with GTK2 2016-02-19
    • 38.6.0 2016-02-12

Lightning

Past releases:

  • 4.0.5.1 (bundled)
  • 4.0.5.2 (AMO)

Upcoming releases:

  • 4.0.6 (bundled) (TB 38.6)
  • 4.7.0 – bug 1225778 (TB 45 tracking)

Round Table

wsmwk

  • filed new crashes
    • bug 1253855 – crash in nsContentIterator::NextNode (v45 potential topcrash)
    • bug 1251120 – crash in nsMsgI18NConvertFromUnicode (v45 topcrash)
  • sorting related support issues:
    • bug 1246269 – Old Thunderbird versions are not updating.
    • bug 1249216 – SUMO landing page for “Help” could be for better
    • bug 1239386 – Thunderbird start page is outdated

Jorg K

  • Landed:
    • bug 1233935 – Bustage fix (nsAutoPtr – take 2)
    • bug 1250010 – M-C: Type-in style not applied to empty paragraphs
    • bug 1251408 – External images not displayed in reply/forward
    • bug 1251783 – Forwarding multipart message with bad structure doesn’t detect charset
    • bug 1254596 – Reply with selection doesn’t work any more (regression from the DOM windows stuff)
  • Awaiting review:

clokep [not in meeting]

rkent

  • Making our case to Mozilla
  • Leadership

Help Wanted

  • Accessibility lead
  • Person comfortable (not necessarily technical experts) with Core type issues. Example, graphics to guide bug 1195947 Thunderbird hardware acceleration (HWA) issues to be resolved

27-January-2016

Thunderbird: 2016-01-26

Filed under: Posts — Tags: — Jesper Kristensen @ 12:00 am

Thunderbird notes 2016-01-26. NOON PT (Pacific). For meeting time, previous notes and call-in details see https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird/StatusMeetings

Attendees

  • rkent, ba, jcranmer, wsmwk, Jorg K, marcoagpinto, mkmelin, aceman, sshagarwal (audio only), Paenglab, MakeMyDay

MAIN FOCUS OF MEETING

  • version 45
  • governance, futures
  • builds
  • bug 1211160 – Why is updates with calendar add-on messing with Thunderbird?
    • I (rkent) hope to respond to review comments today.

Action items from last meetings

  • Thunderbird Council reorganization: we’ll discuss this in the Council directly and do some reorganization. This is not a forever governance plan, but we need to be practical given the many demands of the moment.
    • I (rkent) sent a proposal to the Council two weeks ago, now I need to badger a few people to give responses and decisions. Gerv has a process of voting to approve the slate using tb-planning that he will be running.
  • we should really clean up the module owners and peers at https://wiki.mozilla.org/Modules/MailNews_Core and https://wiki.mozilla.org/Modules/Thunderbird. Candidates for removal: Bienvenu, standard8, sid0, JosiahOne.
    • jcranmer??

Current status / Announcements

Current Release Critical Issues

Leave critical bugs here until confirmed fixed. If confirmed, then remove.

blocking

  • 38.3.1 bug 1211160 calendar 4.0.3.1 is a workaround for 38.3.0 — Thunderbird Version 38.3 Buttons not working menu items // bug 1211291 – Folders are visible, but messages are not. (?related to bug 1211358 lightning chrome.manifest not updated in 38.3.0 ?
    • rkent has patch, see above

important (but not top critical)

  • status TBD – bug 1182629 – update to 38.1.0 from 38.0.1 re-enables disabled Lightning
  • status TBD – bug 1176399 – Multiple master password when GMail OAuth2 is enabled
  • status TBD – bug 1176748 – fix main thread proxies to the migration code (jorgk and m_kato have done such fixes in the past)
  • filelink, proxy,
  • topcrash bug 1149287 is ** 31% of our crashes** – see below

Version 45

  • tracking-tb45 flags: unfixed ?/+ – http://mzl.la/1PMzNiK
  • Items that may need to be checked and tested: gtk3, windows 10, windows 64bit?
  • hardware acceleration – not looking promising (no changes / no testing in recent months)

Releases

  • Past
    • 38.5.1
    • 43.0b1 2015-12-31
    • 44.0b1 2016-01-18

Lightning

Past releases:

  • 4.0.5.1 (bundled)
  • 4.0.5.2 (AMO)

Upcoming releases:

  • 4.0.6 (bundled) (TB 38.6)
  • 4.7.0 – bug 1225778 (TB 45)

Round Table

Jorg K

  • Landed:
    • bug 1175839 – JSMime regression, square brackets not quoted correctly.
    • bug 1231917 – funny artefacts when replying to a saved message.
    • bug 1235205 – dictionary selection problem.
    • bug 1239658 – Override charset carried over to the next message processed (part 1).
    • bug 1240903 – Links broken in compose (regression)
    • bug 301712 – M-C – More en-US dictionary clean-up, removed 4000 uncommon names.
    • bug 1241480 – Bustage fix.
  • Awaiting review:
    • bug 597369 – Override charset carried over to the next message processed (part 2).
  • Ongoing:
    • Investigating why drafts folder gets corrupted every few months bug 1216914
  • Other work: Aurora Landings

jcranmer

  • Review queue is still backlogged
    • Most complicated review at this point is the JSAccount stuff
  • Looking at JS-ification concerns, see mdat/tb-planning post
    • Current status of JS protocol libraries:
      • SASL: Complete, except for NTLM, GSSAPI, and EXTERNAL (not that it’s easy to pull in)
      • Email-socket: prototyping along with NNTP client
      • NNTP client: I want to test replacing our C++ implementation with this once JSAccount is finished
      • JSMime: I have untested prototypes for message composition for below
  • Working on improving JS send implementation
    • Current idea is to try to use an internal interface to break the patches into smaller sets
  • PSA: if you’re touching anything in nsMsgSend or nsMsgCompUtils (or anything else in mailnews/compose except for nsMsgCompose), PLEASE ADD AN XPCSHELL TEST (or a mozmill test if not possible via xpcshell)… if you don’t, it will probably break within a year!

sshagarwal

  • Apologies for being invisible for quite some time
  • Completed delivery format status being persisted in draft feature request: bug 1202165
  • Will be working on Address book visibility issues in AB window and composition sidebar

aceman

  • We need decision on {{bug|584313)) from a mailnews peer if it can go in (was looked at by Neil and comments were solved)
    • Magnus make the call if needed.
  • 1202165 is ready in code (needs review from jcranmer, who gave r- due to test failure). I just work on some additional mozmill tests.

Question Time

When will we get 64 bit Thunderbird builds on Windows. They are built right now for Daily, for example:
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/thunderbird/nightly/2015/12/2015-12-15-03-02-04-comm-central/thunderbird-46.0a1.en-US.win64.installer.exe
See bug 634233

Other

European meet-up dates:
TB is looking for events/dates in March to May timeframe, that would allow the team to meet with possible European partners in Europe. BA to send an e-mail to the TB team with upcoming European events.

Help Wanted

16-December-2015

Thunderbird: 2015-12-15

Filed under: Posts — Tags: — Jesper Kristensen @ 12:00 am

Thunderbird notes 2015-12-15. NOON PT (Pacific). For meeting time, previous notes and call-in details see https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird/StatusMeetings

Attendees

  • jorgk, marcoagpinto, ba, mkmelin, makemyday, aceman

MAIN FOCUS OF MEETING

  • version 45
  • governance, futures (rkent: nothing I want to volunteer, but I can answer questions).
  • builds

Action items from last meetings

Current status / Announcements

Current Release Critical Issues

Leave critical bugs here until confirmed fixed. If confirmed, then remove.

blocking

  • 38.3.1 bug 1211160 calendar 4.0.3.1 is a workaround for 38.3.0 — Thunderbird Version 38.3 Buttons not working menu items // bug 1211291 – Folders are visible, but messages are not. (?related to bug 1211358 lightning chrome.manifest not updated in 38.3.0 ?)
  • nightly (3 bugs blocking builds, all are assigned) – bug 1195442 – Mac builds broken ~1 month on nightly
  • Fixed – bug 1183490 – (dataloss) New emails do not adhere to sort by order received
    • Plan is to understand issues in converting completely to nextKey = ++lastKey for non-IMAP, then plan how much to implement for 38.3.0 A simple fix of the dataloss is probable. I have a try patch that does the nextKey = ++lastKey that works, now I need to think about patch for 38 (bug 1202105 needs to go to trunk and 38)
    • update 2015-10-20, patches have been posted but waiting for reviews for 2 weeks (aceman will look at those)
    • update 2015-11-17, review done 11-14, need to update and land.

important (but not top critical)

  • status TBD – bug 1182629 – update to 38.1.0 from 38.0.1 re-enables disabled Lightning
  • status TBD – bug 1176399 – Multiple master password when GMail OAuth2 is enabled
  • status TBD – bug 1176748 – fix main thread proxies to the migration code (jorgk and m_kato have done such fixes in the past)
  • filelink, proxy,
  • topcrash bug 1149287 is ** 31% of our crashes** – see below

Version 45

  • tracking-tb45 flags: unfixed ?/+ – http://mzl.la/1PMzNiK
  • Items that may need to be checked and tested: gtk3, windows 10, windows 64bit?
  • hardware acceleration – not looking promising (no changes / no testing in recent months)
  • jsaccount should come in aurora

Releases

Lightning

Past releases:

Upcoming releases:

Round Table

Jorg K

  • Landed eight bugs:
    • bug 769604 – font size toolbar button and change increase/decrease size function.
    • bug 1225904 – CJK e-mail with long lines gets corrupted
    • bug 653342 – CJK fix serializer flags, support delsp=yes, tie all CJK issues altogether. Automatically fixes bug 26734
    • bug 1230968 – CJK Missing bit for bug bug 26734
    • bug 1230970 – CJK Regression from CJK stuff, the only one so far
    • bug 330891 – allow

      to be entered in composition

    • bug 232021 – Copy full name and e-mail from message pane (trivial)
    • bug 1231017 – Flowing lost in inline plain text replies
  • Hunted down two regressions: bug 1231654 and bug 1231887. Looked at Korean auto-complete bug 1058491
  • Awaiting review:
    • bug 1175839 – JSMime regression, square brackets not quoted correctly.
    • bug 1231917 – funny artefacts when replying to a saved message.

rkent

  • I have really for got to focus on JsAccount for the next month, as it is absolutely critical for me to get this landed in TB38.
  • Many thanks to those who got tests working in TB 45, and have been uplifting test fixes to aurora and beta.

aceman

  • practicing check ins 🙂
  • fixing some bugs in tests so that the tree is greener, like 1231036, 998710, 1232485

Question Time

When will we get 64 bit Thunderbird builds on Windows. They are built right now for Daily, for example:
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/thunderbird/nightly/2015/12/2015-12-15-03-02-04-comm-central/thunderbird-46.0a1.en-US.win64.installer.exe

Other

ba

Regarding the question on Enigmail/p≡p, the installation will be a single executable file that will include everything if it is installed as add-on. In Microsoft Outlook, a similar p≡p plug-in installation takes 5 clicks and 10 seconds without asking a single question. Patrick/Volker will provide more input on this via the wiki once it is set-up.

Help Wanted

2-December-2015

Thunderbird: 2015-12-01

Filed under: Posts — Tags: — Jesper Kristensen @ 12:00 am

Thunderbird notes 2015-12-01. NOON PT (Pacific). For meeting time, previous notes and call-in details see https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird/StatusMeetings

Attendees

  • jorgk, fallen, ba, wsmwk, mkmelin,MakeMyDay, rkent, marcoagpinto, roker

MAIN FOCUS OF MEETING

  • version 45
  • governance, futures
  • builds

Action items from last meetings

  • Thunderbird Council reorganization: we’ll discuss this in the Council directly and do some reorganization. This is not a forever governance plan, but we need to be practical given the many demands of the moment.

Current status / Announcements

Current Release Critical Issues

Leave critical bugs here until confirmed fixed. If confirmed, then remove.

blocking

  • 38.3.1 bug 1211160 calendar 4.0.3.1 is a workaround for 38.3.0 — Thunderbird Version 38.3 Buttons not working menu items // bug 1211291 – Folders are visible, but messages are not. (?related to bug 1211358 lightning chrome.manifest not updated in 38.3.0 ?)
  • nightly (3 bugs blocking builds, all are assigned) – bug 1195442 – Mac builds broken ~1 month on nightly
  • rkent is working on it – bug 1183490 – (dataloss) New emails do not adhere to sort by order received
    • Plan is to understand issues in converting completely to nextKey = ++lastKey for non-IMAP, then plan how much to implement for 38.3.0 A simple fix of the dataloss is probable. I have a try patch that does the nextKey = ++lastKey that works, now I need to think about patch for 38 (bug 1202105 needs to go to trunk and 38)
    • update 2015-10-20, patches have been posted but waiting for reviews for 2 weeks (aceman will look at those)
    • update 2015-11-17, review done 11-14, need to update and land.

important (but not top critical)

  • status TBD – bug 1182629 – update to 38.1.0 from 38.0.1 re-enables disabled Lightning
  • status TBD – bug 1176399 – Multiple master password when GMail OAuth2 is enabled
  • status TBD – bug 1176748 – fix main thread proxies to the migration code (jorgk and m_kato have done such fixes in the past)
  • filelink, proxy,
  • topcrash bug 1149287 is ** 31% of our crashes** – see below

Version 45

  • tracking-tb45 flags: unfixed ?/+ – http://mzl.la/1PMzNiK
  • Items that may need to be checked and tested: gtk3, windows 10, windows 64bit?
  • hardware acceleration – not looking promising (no changes / no testing in recent months)
  • jsaccount should come in aurora

Releases

  • Past
    • 38.0.1 nominally shipped 2015-06-12, 38.1.0 shipped 2015-07-10, 31.8.0 shipped 2015-07-17, 40.0beta shipped 2015-07-27 (skipping 39.0b), 38.2.0 shipped 2015-08-14, 41.0b1 2015-09-08 build2 (missed ~2015-08-10)
    • 41.0b2 (with uplifts for 38.3.0)
    • 38.3.0 ~2015-09-25 (throttled on 2015-10-06)
    • 42.0b2 2015-10-13 (42.0b1 abandoned)
    • 42.0b3 ~2015-09-23 (skipped)
    • 38.4.0 2015-11-25 (quite late) – many release notes issues
  • Upcoming – https://wiki.mozilla.org/RapidRelease/Calendar#Future_branch_dates

Lightning

Past releases:

Upcoming releases:

Round Table

Jorg K

  • Landed six patches
    • bug 1219928 – M-C spell checker problem
    • bug 586587 + one more – M-C drag and drop onto editor window
    • ((bug|1226537}} – C-C spell check in subject problem
    • bug 1214377 – M-C editor problem, copy/paste – “white-space: pre;”
    • bug 1225864 – M-C CJK route cause of problem in the serialiser
  • Awaiting review:
    • bug 769604 – C-C font size toolbar button and change increase/decrease size function.
    • bug 1225904 – C-C CJK e-mail with long lines gets corrupted
    • bug 653342 – C-C CJK fix serializer flags, support delsp=yes, tie all CJK issues altogether. Automatically fixes bug 26734
  • (Attended Mozilla Berlin “Tech Meeting”: Firefox OS, Telemetry, Servo/Rust)

aceman

Assisting Thomas D. to drive the patches to fix determining the send format (plain/HTML) of outgoing messages:

wsmwk

rkent

  • I was away for a full week for Thanksgiving, just back today, and have a ear infection as well, so has not been a good week. Responding to the pEp proposals, and Mitchell’s post, are my main priorities at the moment.

Friends of the tree

Action Items

Help Wanted

18-November-2015

Thunderbird: 2015-11-17

Filed under: Posts — Tags: — Jesper Kristensen @ 12:00 am

Thunderbird notes 2015-11-17. NOON PT (Pacific). For meeting time, previous notes and call-in details see https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird/StatusMeetings

Attendees

  • jorgk, Pegasus, ba, wsmwk, mkmelin,MakeMyDay, rkent

FOCUS OF MEETING

(to be covered in sections below)

  • version 45
  • governance, futures
  • builds

Action items from last meetings

  • Thunderbird Council reorganization: we’ll discuss this in the Council directly and do some reorganization. This is not a forever governance plan, but we need to be practical given the many demands of the moment.

Current status / Announcements

  • Need to release 38.4 and 43.0b1
    • Please help green up the tree – including not only c-c but also esr38, beta, and aurora
      • We must be aggressive so checkins when patches become available. Thoughts: if you file a bug, please consider fixing it, or pass it off to someone rather than rely on “the fates”. If it breaks build or tests, please make severity=blocker
  • Thunderbird 45: string freeze per schedule, interface freeze later (that’s me demanding a concession like last year).

Critical Issues

Leave critical bugs here until confirmed fixed. If confirmed, then remove.

blocking

  • 38.3.1 bug 1211160 calendar 4.0.3.1 is a workaround for 38.3.0 — Thunderbird Version 38.3 Buttons not working menu items // bug 1211291 – Folders are visible, but messages are not. (?related to bug 1211358 lightning chrome.manifest not updated in 38.3.0 ?)
  • nightly (3 bugs blocking builds, all are assigned) – bug 1195442 – Mac builds broken ~1 month on nightly
  • rkent is working on it – bug 1183490 – (dataloss) New emails do not adhere to sort by order received
    • Plan is to understand issues in converting completely to nextKey = ++lastKey for non-IMAP, then plan how much to implement for 38.3.0 A simple fix of the dataloss is probable. I have a try patch that does the nextKey = ++lastKey that works, now I need to think about patch for 38 (bug 1202105 needs to go to trunk and 38)
    • update 2015-10-20, patches have been posted but waiting for reviews for 2 weeks (aceman will look at those)
    • update 2015-11-17, review done 11-14, need to update and land.

important (but not top critical)

  • status TBD – bug 1182629 – update to 38.1.0 from 38.0.1 re-enables disabled Lightning
  • status TBD – bug 1176399 – Multiple master password when GMail OAuth2 is enabled
  • status TBD – bug 1176748 – fix main thread proxies to the migration code (jorgk and m_kato have done such fixes in the past)
  • filelink, proxy,
  • topcrash bug 1149287 is ** 31% of our crashes** – see below

Releases

  • Past
    • 38.0.1 nominally shipped 2015-06-12, 38.1.0 shipped 2015-07-10, 31.8.0 shipped 2015-07-17, 40.0beta shipped 2015-07-27 (skipping 39.0b), 38.2.0 shipped 2015-08-14, 41.0b1 2015-09-08 build2 (missed ~2015-08-10)
    • 41.0b2 (with uplifts for 38.3.0)
    • 38.3.0 ~2015-09-25 (throttled on 2015-10-06)
    • 42.0b2 2015-10-13 (42.0b1 abandoned)
  • Upcoming

Lightning

Past releases:

Upcoming releases:

Round Table

Jorg K

  • bug 1174452 – M-C editor problem, copy/paste – “white-space: pre;” – patch preposed in bug 1214377 ; landed and sadly got reopened, awaiting review again.
  • bug 586587 – M-C drag and drop onto editor window – awaiting review.
  • bug 769604 – C-C font size toolbar button and change increase/decrease size function – awaiting review.
  • bug 1219928 – M-C spell checker problem – awaiting review.
  • Started looking as CJK problems in flowed plaintext messages: bug 26734, bug 653342.
  • Got hit by bug 1224840 – Assertion failure: IsOuterWindow(), fixed one occurrence.

rkent

  • Thunderbird’s future plans
    • Pending letter from Mitchell on Thunderbird and MoCo
    • Big issues for Thunderbird future: 1) cost of transition 2) sources of income
      • 1) Volker Birk & another senior architect will work with you to estimate the cost of transition in man days and $ as they have lots of experince in setting up and migrating complex systems.
      • 2) We have been talking to DigitalCourage about setting up a donation based system and we as the p≡p Foundation will fund Thunderbird until the donation levels are sufficient for a sustained future.
    • Even bigger issues for the future: articulating a vision, collecting partners: p≡p, Postbox, Chinese fork, Gaia email, TDF/Collabora, MoFo, ???
      • We see these points as elements that need to be worked out in the six months’ period that we have agreed with MoFo. As for collecting partners, we consider this as an outcome of the Business Strategy that will be defined in the next 6 months. We, the p≡p Foundation will start discussions with TDF. In my opinion, ‘Collecting Partners’could require quite large time committment and it should hence be very well planned.
    • Status of MoFo-Thunderbird and Thunderbird-p≡p discussions
      • p≡p Foundation is waiting for MoFo to come back with final comments. In the meantime, I’ll be wait for Kent’s input to align
    • My concern for developing capacity of Thunderbird to be self-managed and focused.
    • Planning a Europe meetup in January, focused on a business plan for January – June 2016
      • We are happy to set it up here in Europe.

Question Time

  • new account provisioner: Are there currently any providers other than Gandi? Would it be worth trying to find some more?
  • We need a plan for the build system fairly urgently, given the apparent “no” to the c-c/m-c merge

Help Wanted

25-August-2015

Thunderbird: 2015-08-25

Filed under: Posts — Tags: — Jesper Kristensen @ 11:00 pm

Thunderbird meeting notes 2015-08-25. NOON PT (Pacific). For meeting time, previous notes and call-in details see https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird/StatusMeetings

Attendees

  • wsmwk, aceman, fallen, makemyday, jorgk, rkent, mkmelin, clokep

Action items from last meetings

  • Get release documentation into wiki

Current status and discussions

Critical Issues

Leave critical bugs here until confirmed fixed. If confirmed, then remove.

  • needs assignee after solution identified – bug 1196662 not checking mails after hibernation, caused by core bug 1178890 (and we may be seeing other issues from 1178890, like hangs)
  • aceman is assignee – bug 1183490 – (dataloss) New emails do not adhere to sort by order received
  • status TBD – bug 1182629 – update to 38.1.0 from 38.0.1 re-enables disabled Lightning
  • status TBD – bug 1176399 – Multiple master password when GMail OAuth2 is enabled
  • status ??? – bug 1176748 – Someone needs to add additional main thread proxies to the migration code (jorgk and m_kato have in previous years been the major drivers of fixes)
  • topcrash bug 1149287 is ** 31% of our crashes** – see below

removing from critical list/fixed:

Critical for TB42 and beyond:
bug 1193200 – Blocker: Permissions manager/Remote content exceptions

Releases

  • Past
    • 38.0.1 nominally shipped 2015-06-12
    • 38.1.0 shipped 2015-07-10
    • 31.8.0 shipped 2015-07-17
    • 40.0beta shipped 2015-07-27 (skipping 39.0b)
    • 38.2.0 shipped 2015-08-14
  • Upcoming
    • 38.3.0 ~2015-09-23
    • 41.0beta ~2015-08-10
    • 42.0beta ~2015-09-26

Lightning

Past releases:

Upcoming releases:

Updates:

  • Still need help rewriting SUMO help articles on Lightning
  • Need to fix bug 1194997 for calendars disabling themselves

Round Table

Jorg K

  • bug 772796bug 1174452 – M-C Editor problems to do with pre and “white-space: pre;” currently stalled.
  • bug 368915 – change language in subject (language button), ready to land.
  • bug 1197687 – Font menu again, waiting for Neil.
  • bug 1020181 – Set spell check language for recipient (published add-on as quick fix).

wsmwk

  • developers need to be thinking about landing stuff now, and in the next 2 months, for version 45 moves to aurora dec 14
  • HWA – collected more data and filed bug 1195947 Track HWA issues
  • crashes
    • 38.2.0 crash rate ~0.35, dramatically reduced from ~.5 for 38.1.0 https://crash-stats.mozilla.com/daily?p=Thunderbird likely mostly due to disabling HWA. Only ~6 GPU crash signatures in top 200 and the highest rank is 80 (vs several in top 20 for 38.2.0), so most GPU driver crashes seem to be gone (but not all of the crash rate reduction will have been just from disabling HWA)
    • topcrash bug 1149287 is **31% of crashes (1)** and needs much work because it’s got multiple causes. Some reports implicate McAfee, some are not “shutdown” because user is hung or waiting on some prompt or protocol issue (only then does user try to close and crashes). (speculating) Are some caused by timer issues from bug 1178890? See the comments http://tinyurl.com/nzwkgaq (1) https://crash-stats.mozilla.com/topcrasher/products/Thunderbird/versions/38.2.0
    • lacking time to follow up on other signatures in the “new” topcrash rankings (but that’s OK because we’re very well off compared to 38.1.0)
  • following progress of Thunderbird web pages moving to bedrock – they are close to being done
  • beware – ishikawa in the next several weeks will be landing big changes from many (>12?) bugs, both core and Thunderbird, for IO performance and error checking, eg bug 1116055

Fallen

  • Patched a lot of build issues, together with aleth

rkent

Code:

  • I think we have made progress on maildir issues, I hope to get two critical issues fixed before the next release.

I’m finally starting to turn more of my attention to management issues rather than urgent TB 38 problems. In the long run, those are very important, but the urgent easily crowds out the important. Kudos to those trying to get the tree usable again!

We could talk about:

  • Our thoughts on the announced changes to addons (Including not only
    • require signed vs unsigned?
      • no upside? i.e. we have no identified exploits
      • need to wait for enterprise impacts to be resolved
      • concerned that because the “unsigned process” will be no longer used by AMO, it may impact ability to push out unsigned THunderbird addons using the script they used to mass sign Firefox’s unsigned addons
    • XPCOM/XUL deprecation
      • need to make sure we are involved in the conversation and decisions so that developers have what they need in the “new environment”
  • Patrick is happy to do Enigmail integration into Thunderbird, I think we should agree. comments?
  • Joshua, Suyash, and I are working on the SkinkGlue (now JsAccount) integration, which will be the basis of both JMAP and CARDDAV support. –> consider using https://github.com/gaye/dav for carddav support
  • Volker Birk of Pretty Easy Privacy is *very* serious about heavily engaging his Foundation with Thunderbird. Concerns? http://pep-project.org/
  • Then there is the legal and financial home issue …
    • Expect a full-court press on MoFo by me soon, if you have contacts there please advise. One thing that is clear to me after talking to people is how critical Thunderbird is in the greater software world. We DO have a place at the table! How to get MoFo to see that?
    • We have submitted a formal application to Software Freedom Conservancy to affiliate with them, now we wait for their evaluation queue.
    • Very interesting talks with The Document Foundation(TDF)/LibreOffice. #1 concern: All of our energy goes into keeping up with Mozilla to allow us to optimize some future code development that we never actually have time for. Their funding model is very interesting, would be worth discussing.
    • hoping to meet with postbox in a few weeks
  • It would be really great if someone could lead efforts to prototype a fund-raising drive web page in-product. (hoping to target Oct/Nov)

aceman

  • looking at bug 1183490 (the order received regression), 2 options:
    1. back out bug 854798. Should be safe. I recommend this.
    2. finally drop msgkey=offset in mbox and just increment by 1. May be risky but there is already a precedent that msgs moved by filters already get key+1 so code expecting key==offset should have already been uncovered. However, there are still some unsure places, fixing which means basically bug 793865 (the 64bit envelope and msgkey!=offset cleanup). I would not recommend this for ESR.
  • finally looking to finish some feature patches (compose font selector, saved files tab, show map widget)

Question Time

Other

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Help Wanted

28-July-2015

Thunderbird: 2015-07-28

Filed under: Posts — Tags: — Jesper Kristensen @ 11:00 pm

Thunderbird meeting notes 2015-07-28. NOON PT (Pacific). Check https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird/StatusMeetings for meeting time conversion, previous meeting notes and call-in details

Attendees

wsmwk, fallen, paenglab, sshagarwal, mkmelin, florian, makemyday

Action items from last meetings

  • asked releng to enable updates ot 38.1.0 for 31.* users

Current status and discussions

Critical Issues

Leave critical bugs here until confirmed fixed. If confirmed, then remove.

  • status TBD bug 1176399 Multiple requests for master password when GMail OAuth2 is enabled
  • Someone needs to add additional main thread proxies to the migration code.
  • bug 1131879 – Disable hardware acceleration (HWA) is back on the table

removing from critical list/fixed:

  • status TBD bug 1174797 Add a cookie exception for GMail OAuth

Releases

  • Past
    • 38.0.1 nominally shipped 2015-06-12
    • 38.1.0 shipped 2015-07-10
    • 31.8.0 shipped 2015-07-17
  • Upcoming
    • 40.0beta almost done (skipping 39.0b)
    • 38.2.0 (~ 2015-08-10)
    • 41.0beta (~ 2015-08-10)

Lightning

Past releases:

Upcoming releases:

Updates:

  • (do we still need this??) As underpass has pointed out repeatedly (thanks for your patience!) , we need to rewrite / heavily modify the lightning articles on support.mozilla.org. let me know irc: rolandtanglao on #tb-support-crew or rtanglao AT mozilla.com OR simply start editing the articles
  • We’ve doubled our active daily users

Round Table

wsmwk

  • focus on 38.* updates and stabilitiy
    • HWA issues bug 1131879
    • new topcrash bug 1187764 mozilla::layers::SyncObjectD3D11::FinalizeFrame()
    • new topcrashes (win7) DrawingContext::FillRectangle(D2D_RECT_F const*, ID2D1Brush*), win8/8.1 D2DDeviceContextBase<T>::FillRectangle(D2D_RECT_F const*, ID2D1Brush*)
    • proxy crashes – need to reblocklist?
    • emailed/IRCed trackerbird addon author abustany about version 38 topcrash on opensuse
  • everything in SVN/php needs to move to Bedrock before end of Q3 deadline bug 836461

clokep

  • Met with Florian and aleth last week in France:
    • Instantbird will now use Gecko version numbering
      • “Chat Core” component now has Instantbird 42 (and 43 and 44) as target versions. These match Thunderbird 42 / 43 /44.
      • We will not go back and fix things from previous periods, but I did fix anything committed since the 41 merge.
  • Skype landed (preffed off! flip chat.prpls.prpl-skype.disable) with text-chat only
    • Test it if you use Skype, it’s missing a lot of features still: bug 953999
  • The next part of nhnt11’s GSoC project from *last year* landed! (Logs are now split across days in a saner fashion: bug 1025522)
  • Lots of XMPP fixes (including fixing issues when connecting to Slack)

Jorg K (won’t attend)

  • bug 209189 – C-C: shift delete, undo -> corruption, finished with Kent’s help
  • bug 368915 – C-C: change language in subject, waiting for Magnus.
  • bug 345852 – M-C: persdict stuff for Firefox, landed.
  • bug 772796 – M-C: Editor destroys preformatting, TB papercut, under investigation.

sshagarwal

  • On the last stage of completing demo protocol.
    • Stuck at Folder pane issue for quite a very long time now.

Question Time

When is council elections? –> In a couple months. 1 year after initial team.

Other

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Action Items

  • Get release documentation into wiki

Help Wanted

16-June-2015

Thunderbird: 2015-06-16

Filed under: Posts — Tags: — Jesper Kristensen @ 11:00 pm

Thunderbird meeting notes 2015-06-16. NOON PT (Pacific). Check https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird/StatusMeetings for meeting time conversion, previous meeting notes and call-in details

Attendees

rkent, wsmwk, sshagarwal, jorgk, joes1, jcranmer, mkmelin, rolandtanglao, makemyday

Current status and discussions

Critical Issues

Leave critical bugs here until confirmed fixed. If confirmed, then remove.

  • see tb38 etherpad
  • tracking-tb38 flags – approved(+): http://tinyurl.com/nk3vbhl nominated(?): http://tinyurl.com/pgwflyg
  • Do we unthrottle updates for TB38?
    • suggest 10% for a couple days so we get more data, if there are no objections (wsmwk). we are roughly at 200k users or 1% of user population
    • JoeS1 FWIW Firefox unthrottles immediately to 25 for info, I think we should do the same
      • But I guess they do that because they are ready to do a point release if necessary, and we are not that ready
    • What is state of addons? (generally we don’t decide based on this, except maybe calendar)
    • Are there tracked bugs we want fixed before full unthrottle? (means waiting for 38.1.0)
  • rkent list of critical issues blocking even partial unthrottling:
    • broken Simplified Chinese bug 1174580 – Not display GB2312 encoded texts correctly
      • It might be possible to simply change the encoding mapping to fix this?
    • proxy not working bug 1175051 and probably related crashes
  • rkent list of other critical issues
    • Outlook/Eudora import completely busted: bug 1175055.
      • I suggest that for the next dot release, if we cannot get the crash fixed, we should disable the menu item that promotes this. Does not block unthrottling since mostly affects new users.
      • Someone needs to add additional main thread proxies to the migration code.
    • bug 1174797 Add a cookie exception for GMail OAuth
      • Does not affect unthrottling since no effect unless someone tries to use OAuth. Lightning has an example of how to fix this, so should not be difficult.

Releases

  • Past
    • 31.6.0 shipped
    • 38.0b3 shipped 2015-04-26 Sunday
    • 38.0b4 shipped 2015-05-03 Sunday
    • 31.7.0 2015-05-18 Monday (lots of issues – Tues 5-12 was target)
    • 38.0b5 shipped 2015-05-19 Tuesday
    • 38.0b6 shipped 2015-05-23
    • 38.0.1 nominally shipped 2015-06-12
  • Upcoming
    • 31.8.0 ~2015-06-20 GTB
    • 38.1.0 FF GTB on June 22 release June 30.
      • Would it be possible to continue to use the beta channel for TB 38 until post-38.2.0? So maybe we could do a 38.1.0b1?

Lightning to Thunderbird Integration

See https://calendar.etherpad.mozilla.org/thunderbird-integration

  • As underpass has pointed out repeatedly (thanks for your patience!) , we need to rewrite / heavily modify the lightning articles on support.mozilla.org. let me know irc: rolandtanglao on #tb-support-crew or rtanglao AT mozilla.com OR simply start editing the articles
  • We need to fill the “Learn More” page with content, possibly point it to something more specific bug 1159682
  • Opt-out dialog: change “disable” to “remove” bug 1159698
  • tracking bug for lightning 4.0 bug 1153752

Round Table

wsmwk

jorgk

  • bug 345852 – Personal dictionary, waiting for Ehsan
  • bug 209189 – delete, delete, undo -> corruption, waiting for Neil/Kent
  • bug 368915 – spell check in subject, ongoing.
  • bug 1175055 – Import (Eudora/Outlook) busted.

rkent

My availability will be limited from June 20 – June 29. If there is going to be progress on fixing TB 38 releases in that time, someone else would have to drive it.

  • Monitoring issues appearing in TB 38.0.1
  • Previously there were issues getting TB 38 to build with current mozilla-esr38 (which resulted in THUNDERBIRD_38_0_20150603_RELBRANCH) and I suspect there may be some fixes needed to get the merge of mozilla-esr38 into THUNDERBIRD_38_VERBRANCH to work.

jcranmer

  • Huge backlog, being more or less processed in stack order unfortunately
    • Ping me on IRC if you have anything really important to look at something
  • Following up on some releng future issues
  • I have some discussions to start after 38 is finally out the door

sshagarwal

  • At step one of the project: Setting up a dummy protocol to understand how a protocol

is added to TB using addon approach (using Skinkglue).

  • I have taken too much time to do this mostly due to health issues continuing for over a month now. Will pick up soon.

Question Time

Jorg K:
When will JSMime take over all RFC2047 decoding? Looking at bug 1146099 I found RFC2047 code used in comm-central/mozilla/netwerk/mime.
Also, while Joshua is here: Will we fix whatever we did wrong in bug 1154521

Support team

  • Roland’s last day is June 30, 2015 – please needinfo :rolandtanglao or email rtanglao AT mozilla.com if you need my help starting July 1, 2015

Other

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2-June-2015

Thunderbird: 2015-06-02

Filed under: Posts — Tags: — Jesper Kristensen @ 11:00 pm

Thunderbird meeting notes 2015-06-02. NOON PT (Pacific). Check https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird/StatusMeetings for meeting time conversion, previous meeting notes and call-in details

Attendees

rkent, Fallen, jorgk, margoagpinto, mkmelin, paenglab, wsmwk, aceman, sshagarwal, joes1

Current status and discussions

How can we keep Thunderbird relevant with competitors like Geary Discourage new email clients with small teams? (Mailpile, Postbox also come to mind).

And speaking of Postbox … we plan to have discussion soon about more active cooperation.

Critical Issues

  • Last call for issues prior to 38.0 I am not aware of any blockers, plan to build Wednesday.

Critical bugs. Leave these here until they’re confirmed fixed. If confirmed, then remove.

  • AMO compatibility bump! (is not going to happen)
  • In general, the tracking-tb38 flag http://mzl.la/1EOx9Tm shows critical issues.
  • maildir UI: nothing more to do for UI, still want to land a patch for letting IMAP set this.

removing from critical list/fixed:

Releases

  • Past
    • 31.6.0 shipped
    • 38.0b3 shipped 2015-04-26 Sunday
    • 38.0b4 shipped 2015-05-03 Sunday
    • 31.7.0 2015-05-18 Monday (lots of issues – Tues 5-12 was target)
    • 38.0b5 shipped 2015-05-19 Tuesday
    • 38.0b6 shipped 5/23
  • Upcoming
    • 38.0 final 2015-06-03?
    • 31.8.0 2015-06-20~ GTB

Lightning to Thunderbird Integration

See https://calendar.etherpad.mozilla.org/thunderbird-integration

  • As underpass has pointed out repeatedly (thanks for your patience!) , we need to rewrite / heavily modify the lightning articles on support.mozilla.org. let me know irc: rolandtanglao on #tb-support-crew or rtanglao AT mozilla.com OR simply start editing the articles
  • We need to fill the “Learn More” page with content, possibly point it to something more specific bug 1159682
  • Opt-out dialog: change “disable” to “remove” bug 1159698
  • tracking bug for lightning 4.0 bug 1153752

Round Table

wsmwk

  • creating moztrap tests for new features

Jorg K

sshagarwal

  • Getting started on GSoC project.
  • Trying to understand xpcom components and figure out how to write a dummy protocol to use with Skinkglue.

Question Time

  • Jorg K: Release notes? I think more bugs should go on the list that we currently have. We will consider those with more than 3 votes 😉
  • rkent: Should we consider enabling maildir as default on trunk? Use ifdef to only compile on trunk.
    • I think maildir still too untested to set as default, even on trunk (JoeS1)
    • Can we wait with that until after getting feedback from testers of it on TB38? (aceman)
  • aceman: still no luck in getting Extra folder columns addon disabled (= limited compatibility to <=37.x) on AMO?
  • aceman: also somebody should at least comment on the “Send filter” addon on AMO that the feature is in base TB. It may conflict.

Other

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