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   Thunderbird meeting notes 2014-11-18

Previous meetings: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird/StatusMeetings#Meeting_Notes

Attendees

(partial list)
rkent
florian
wsmwk
jcranmer
mmelin
aceman
theone
clokep
roland

Action items from last meetings

• wsmwk: Get the Thunderbird 38 bugzilla flag created
  • not heard from standard8

Critical Issues

• Several critical bugs keeping us from moving from 24 to 31. Please leave these here until they’re confirmed fixed.
  • Frequent POP3 crasher bug 902158 On current aurora and beta?
    • we won’t have data/insight till next week, assuming the relevant builds are built. crash-stats for nightly builds is not useful – direct user testing of the fixed build is required
  • Self-signed certs are having difficulty bug 1036338 SOLVED! REOPENED according to the bug?
  • Auto-complete bugs?bug 1045753 waiting for esr approval bug 1043310 Waiting for review, still
  • Auto-complete improvements (bug 970456, bug 1091675, bug 118624) – some of those could go into esr31
  • bug 1045958TB 31 jp does not display folder pane with OS X

Why are we throttled? Because 1) waiting for TB 31.3, and 2) still hoping for bug 1045958 3) need auto-complete bug approved. Dec 1/2 is now release date.

Upcoming

• TB34.0b1 just released
• TB31.3.0 moved to ~ Dec 1 (but builds are done ~ a week before)
• 10th anniversary of Thunderbird 1.0 – what should we do? See your email. Also ref: https://etherpad.mozilla.org/thunderbird10thannivideas
  • make a special Start Page https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/release/start/?uri=/thunderbird/start/&locale=en-US&version=31.0
    • special graphic?
    • text?
    • localizations
  • other ideas (see your email)

Round Table

wsmwk

• got Penelope (pre-OSE eudora) removed from AMO
• shepherding [1] bug 1045958]]TB 31 jp does not display folder pane with OS X
• secured potential release drivers
• “Get Involved” is broken for Thunderbird. TB isn’t offered at https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/contribute/signup/, and it’s unclear who in Thunderbird gets notified. In contact with

Larissa Shapiro

jcranmer

• Looking into eliminating the comm-central build system bug 1099430
• Trying to see if I can get some whines set up to listen for potential TB compat changes (e.g., checking the addon-compat keyword)
• We have telemetry on Nightly for the first time since TB 28!
• Irving is working through reviews of bug 998191 \o/

clokep

• Google Talk does not work on comm-central due to disabling of RC4 SSL ciphers, see bug 1092701
  • Some of the security guys have contacted Googlers, apparently an internal ticket was opened with the XMPP team
• Filed a bug (with a patch) to have firefoxtree work with comm-central, this will automatically add a tag (called “comm”) to the tip of comm-central bug 1100692 and is useful if you’re playing with bookmarks instead of mq
• Still haven’t fully been able to get Additional Chat Protocols to compile…(Windows still failing)
• WebRTC work is waiting for reviews from Florian

mkmelin

• lots of reviews, queue almost empty, yay!
• finally landed bug 970456
• bug 1074125 fixed, plan to handle some of the m-c encoding removals next
• bug 1074793 fixed, for tb we need to set a pref for it to take affect (bug 1095893 awaiting review)

aceman

• revived effort on 4GB+ folders together with rkent
  • first step landed! bug 813459
  • next steps bug 789679, bug 793865
• landed a rewrite of the attachment reminder engine: bug 938829 (NOT for ESR). Please mark regressions against that bug. First one is bug 1099866.

Support team

• [roland] working on Thunderbird profile article because a new volunteer contributor from the SUMO buddy program rewrote it! will review changes!

Action Items

• wsmwk: Thunderbird start page for anniversary, with localizations
• wsmwk: Get Involved, get the “Thunderbird path” operating