Thunderbird/StatusMeetings/2008-10-21

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Thunderbird Meeting Details

• Tuesday, Oct 21, 16:30 UTC (9:30am Pacific, 12:30pm Eastern)
• How to dial-in

Agenda

• Who's taking minutes? --> clarkbw
• Minute taking Schedule. Talk to davida for schedule changes/additions.

Calls For Help

• davida would appreciate assistance on the autoconfiguration branch. (The awesome create-a-new-account screen where you just enter your e-mail address and it figures out most/all of the details for you.) One particular area that could use assistance is handling certificates in the connection detection logic.

Action Items

New

• davida: needs to identify the major work items for thunderbird 3 and break them down by the beta/release they will be in.
• From the Alpha 3 post-mortem:
  • davida: Major items for beta 1 to be nailed down asap.
  • bienvenu: Pick an intermediate milestone for landing most of the big items.
  • sipaq: Document details on what should happen before, during and after the string freeze, and the effects on developers at the relevant times.
  • gozer: Ensure there is a bug for server-side Mac Symbols not working for intel builds.
  • wsmwk: Put up tracking bug for issues from releases during litmus tests.
  • wsmwk: Need to define what tests (e.g. smoketests/basic functional/unit tests etc) should go where and where they are filed.
  • standard8: Generate some gristmill example scripts, and encourage others to use gristmill and file bugs to help improve it.
  • standard8: File bugs for
    • hook php generation into builds (file sizes/locales list)
    • Check product-details interaction with mozillamessaging site.
  • standard8: Send mail to release-drivers, do we need some overall cleanup of relnote bugs?
  • standard8: File a bug for beta 1 start page and attach files we were going to do for last release.
  • tb-drivers: Go through current MailNews/TB relnote bugs and work out what is really necessary.

Open

• gozer pinged mrz about separate messaging crash-stats server, davida will escalate
• dmose partially did another round of updates on reviewers, will try and finish up: see [1]

Thunderbird 3 Beta 1

• bienvenu is release driver
• Proposed String freeze date: 2008-11-13
• Code Freeze date: 2008-11-18

• davida will identify the must-absolutely-have items for beta 1 (part of the new action item planning what must happen by when)

Thunderbird 3

• Draft Thunderbird:Thunderbird3:DevRoadmap identifies major work items on the plate for Tb3 -- much of it needs scheduling, owning, breakdown.
  • folks interested in helping with front-end stuff, some simple, should ask in #maildev

Roundtable

Status Updates

Standard8

• Reviews & Driving
• Finished up alpha 3 stuff (post-mortem).
• Password Manager
  • Written some test cases for existing password manager code, will be using to ensure everything is correct when we migrate.
  • Also pushed some patches to the qaserver]
• Misc
  • bug 459784 Fixed Error: uncaught exception: 2147500034, and switch the default commandline handler to use XPCOMUtils.jsm