Thunderbird/StatusMeetings/2009-08-04

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Thunderbird Meeting Details :

• Tuesday, August 4th, 16:30 UTC (9:30am Pacific, 12:30pm Eastern)
• How to dial-in

Agenda

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

Action Items

New

Open

• Autoconfig process
  • Webapp currently being tested to fix some initial problems, will open up for broader testing soon, i.e., move the webapp to a place where more people can access it.

Closed

Thunderbird 3 Beta 4

• Release Driver: Standard8
• Build Engineer: gozer

• Blockers/Wanted
  • TB 3.0b4 – blocking 79 (-3)
  • b3ux TBD
• Proposed Blocking (all milestones)
  • Proposed Blockers (all): 72 (-7)
• Fixed:
  • TB 3.0b4 – blocking 20 (+13)

• Main things we want to land:
  • gloda (by default)
  • background sending,
  • message headers improvements
  • autoconfig
    • With ispdb
    • locales string
  • autosync space/time policies sorted out.

• This week will see more aggressive cutting down of the blocking and proposed bugs, figuring out what we don’t really need for the release
• Proposed Dates (any feedback to Standard8 please):
  • Friday, September 11th is the proposed target for code freeze
  • Tuesday September 22th, is the proposed estimated release day
  • Following with the final string freeze 1 week after release
  • RC1 proposed date Tuesday, November 3rd for code freeze
  • Final release dates will depend on RC1

Thunderbird 3

• Thunderbird:Thunderbird3:DevRoadmap

• Blockers
  • blocking-thunderbird3+ 147 (-2)
  • Chart
  • TB 3 Needs: 11 (+2)
• Proposed Blocking
  • Proposed Blockers (all): 72 (-7)
• Wanted
  • Wanted Thunderbird 3 249

• Please set bugs to assigned status (as well as owner to you) if you want to do them.
• If you have other bugs assigned to you that you don’t want to do, please reassign or discuss with drivers.

QA Updates

• Worked on upates for B2 to B3
  • Large amount of users using b3
  • No new spike in crash-stats
• Had a normal bug day.
• Monitoring crash-stats and filling bugs for it.

This week working on :

• Weekly | with the community will focus on bug tagged dupme
• Long term – come up with an overall strategy for upgrade path testing

Marketing Updates

• Press Watch 10 Useful Thunderbird Add-ons for Almost Everybody; reposted articles from Beta 3
• Icon update Designer is on vacation, wrapping up final details (appearance with different sizes, a few more minor edits)
• Met with Mozilla Japan marketing team to get them up to speed on launch planning.
• Working through marketing messaging documents.

IT update

• ISPDB Preview moving along
• MozMill tests have been going on comm-1.9.1 and comm-central for a week now
• Thunderbird 3 Beta 3 Uptake Stats are available and looking good

Documentation

• first day back from vacation – nothing to report

Roundtable

• All hands next week.

Status Updates

nth10sd

• Working a bit on Mozmill through a No. 8 Typhoon Signal.
• UNCOnfirmed TB bugs now below 2k
• Found regression window for bug 501045
• qawanted bug 503987
• Usual bugdays, b.m.o cleanup, QA

sid0

• Landed bug 501308.
• Fixed a couple of MozMill test failures: 1 and 2.
• Worked with humph to get bug 501045 fixed.

davida

dmose

Standard8

• Reviews and driving
• Finished last patch to bug 121647 POP/IMAP server passwords are inappropriately forgotten.
• Fixed some intermittent test failures in test_sendBackground.js bug 495776
• Came across and did some debugging on bug 504552 Default tab show only a message and no other panes.
• Starting to pick up send in background work again.

Next Week:

• Send in background

asuth

• Primarily Performance Work

bienvenu

• Reviews and Driving
• Worked on date constraints for auto-synced offline stores, bug 482476
• Fixed creation of special folders to set special folder flag which helps with localized folder name and special folder icons, bug 467527
• Bullet-proof one more libmime mimemult crash, bug 482879
• Add “mail-startup-done” notification to SM so mailnews core can use it bug 487820
• Don’t allow sub-folders or saved searches under smart folders inbox bug 490326
• Fixed topcrash in VirtualFolderChangeListener::OnHdrAdded, bug 383584
• Try to fix crash in GetInsertIndexHelper, by detecting failure to get db, bug 492571
• Finished code for imap undo of delete after expunge of source folder, working on tests.
• Add extra status to imap urls so that the backend code can get more information about the url status, add add status for flag adding/removal failure, part of bug 323875
• Make imap url hold a reference to the nsIFile it is operating on, to prevent crashes, bug 313026
• Fixed invalidation of view lines when moving threads on incoming mail, bug 504297

Next week

• Finish IMAP Undo w/ tests
• Land date-based autosync constraints

gozer

• Build
  • Shipped Thunderbird 3 Beta 3 Updates
  • Mozmill running in staging
  • CCNightlyFactory / CCNightlyRepackFactory tested in staging
    • Will remove a lot of custom code
    • Will address lots of l10n build/repacks problems
    • Parallel l10n repacks

• Web
  • ISPDB Preview in progress
    • Small tweaks and bugfixes

• Infrastructure
  • Trying to repurpose the Thunderbird supercomputing cluster for buildbot
  • Better spam filtering for @mozillamessaging.com e-mail addresses

clarkbw

Last Week

• ui-reviews
• bugs

This Week

• continue with autoconfig iterations
• actually do the header refinement work

wsmwk

beckley

Penelope

KaiRo

• Positive feedback on my blog post on decoupling SM and TB schedules
• Started making the last modifications for comm-central release automation available to everyone, see bug 508243

rkent

rebron

• Marketing messaging/launch planning.
• GS integration.
• Web site updates for launch.
• Dashboard builder for Thunderbird metrics.

Tsk

Last week:

• Looked up at ispdb
• Weekly event
• Tested updates

Upcoming week:

• Start launching upgrade testing effort
• Daily maintainance

andreasn

• Last week
  • Windows Vista theme work #507595, #506626, #506633, #506660, #507122
  • Account setup layout #506290

• This week
  • More Vista theme work #488060
  • Look into WinXP theme feedback
  • Linux theme fixes #505721
  • Dialog sizes

bwinton

Last week:

• Closed bug 498519.
• Posted a localization patch for bug 498519.
• Posted patches for bug 503436, and bug 507533.
• Added unit tests for bug 465269.
• Posted a screenshot for bug 495478
• Created bug 507386 and bug 508267, both with patches.

This week:

• Try to close bug 495478 and bug 490097.
• Continue working on bug 465269.
• Also work on bug 507533, and bug 503436.
• Start working on bug 248681 if we know what we want it to look like.

roland

Last Week:

• more Get Satisfaction (GS) integration (getting topics finally moved over, configuration of links, etc)
• meeting more folks (Mozy Tom, Ludo, Wayne Mery)
• changed link on mozillamessaging.com/support to point to mozillamessaging’s GS

This Week:

• GS triage – goal is to do 50, need developer for triage help
• initial support process and plan presentation

Attendees

davida,standard8,bienvenu,gozer,rebron,asuth,jenzed,nth10sd,sid0,clarkbw,beckley,kairo,rkent,tsk,andreasn,bwinton,roland