Meeting Notes Meetings notes from the Mozilla community

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

• 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.
• 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.

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
• 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

• Past
  • 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 HOWEVER, mostly uneventful with regard to Lightning updates. YAY!
  • 43.0b1 skipping/DOA/Mac repack problems in build automation bug 1231174 https://public.etherpad-mozilla.org/p/thunderbird-release-43b1
• Upcoming – https://wiki.mozilla.org/RapidRelease/Calendar#Future_branch_dates
  • STRING FREEZE for version 45 now
  • 38.5.0 immenent https://public.etherpad-mozilla.org/p/thunderbird-release-38-5-0
  • 44.0b1 (pending fixing of Mac repack issues)

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 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

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