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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

• Etherpads see list of names at https://public.etherpad-mozilla.org/p/thunderbird and https://public.etherpad-mozilla.org/p/calendar
• https://public.etherpad-mozilla.org/p/thunderbird38-support-issues for version 38 ESR issues
• Tree status issues: https://public.etherpad-mozilla.org/p/thunderbird-tree-status
  • Please help green up the tree – including not only c-c but also esr38, beta, and aurora
    • Please be aggressive filing bugs, and fixing what you can, so dev checkins can occur when patches become available.
    • If a bug breaks nightly or beta build or tests, please make severity=blocker
    • Please prioritize reviews/feedback requests in your queue that are tree issues!
• Thunderbird 45: string freeze 2015-12-14, interface freeze later (that’s me demanding a concession like last year).

Current Release Critical Issues

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

• tracking-tb38 flags: approved(+)+unfixed in ESR: http://mzl.la/1LDrkxP nominated(?): http://tinyurl.com/pgwflyg

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
  • 43.0b1 starting this week https://public.etherpad-mozilla.org/p/thunderbird-release-43b1
  • STRING FREEZE for version 45 in 2 weeks – 2015-12-14
  • 38.5.0 ~2015-12-14 ~3 weeks
  • 44.0b1 ~2015-12-14 ~3 weeks

Lightning

Past releases:

• 4.0.1.2 – bug 1182264, 4.0.2.1 – bug 1194997
• 4.0.3, 4.0.3.1 (no changes compared to 4.0.2.1)

Upcoming releases:

• 4.0.4 – bug 1215969
• 4.7.0 – bug 1225778 (TB 45)

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:

• bug 136502 – landed
• bug 584313 – needs review in compose.cpp (e.g. Neil)
• bug 1222176 – patch with tests prepared, needs reviews

wsmwk

• 38.4.0
  • built and shipped
  • tracking Lightning related update issues bug 1215828
• new etherpad https://public.etherpad-mozilla.org/p/thunderbird-encryption

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

• congrats to kohei who was recognized for “creating the Thunderbird version of the Get the Add-on button” (and has done a ton of work moving dozens of Thunderbird web pages to bedrock)

Action Items

• 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.

Help Wanted

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