Meeting Notes Meetings notes from the Mozilla community

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

• use https://thunderbird.etherpad.mozilla.org/thunderbird38-support-issues to communicate version 38 issues

Critical Issues

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

• see tb38 etherpad https://thunderbird.etherpad.mozilla.org/thunderbird38-support-issues
• tracking-tb38 flags – approved(+)+unfixed in ESR: http://mzl.la/1LDrkxP nominated(?): http://tinyurl.com/pgwflyg

• 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:

• 4.0.1.2 – due to bug 1182264

Upcoming releases:

• 4.0.1.3 – due to bug 1187072 and possibly bug 1187624.
• 4.0.2 – tracking in bug 1180416

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

• PLEASE PUT THE NEXT MEETING IN YOUR (LIGHTNING) CALENDAR

• Note – meeting notes must be copied from etherpad to wiki before 5AM CET next day so that they will go public in the meeting notes blog.

Action Items

• Get release documentation into wiki

Help Wanted

• Support lead
• Accessibility lead
• Revise lightning articles on SUMO: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/search/advanced?q=lightning&language=en-US&category=10&category=20&product=thunderbird&sortby_documents=relevance&a=1&w=1 – to query articles that needs change: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/contributors/kb-overview?product=thunderbird