Thunderbird/StatusMeetings/2009-02-03

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Thunderbird Meeting Details :

• Tuesday, Feb 03th, 17:30 UTC (9:30am Pacific, 12:30pm Eastern)
• How to dial-in

Agenda

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

Action Items

Open

• davida to look at status meeting agenda due to the drivers meeting that follows later in the morning.

Thunderbird 3 Beta 2

• For reference, Gecko 1.9.1b3: Jan 13 Code Freeze, Jan 15 QA, Jan 26 Release according to their plan.

• clarkbw is release driver
• gozer is build engineer
• Slushy string freeze from: Tuesday 10th February 23:59 PST (1 week)
• Slushy Code freeze from: Thursday 12th February 23:59 PST
• Firm code/string freeze from: Tuesday 17th February 23:59 PST
• l10n-mozilla-1.9.1 freeze from: Thursday 19th February 23:59 PST
• (TBD) Testday to stress major new features like Activity Manager

• Blockers/Wanted
  • TB 3.0b2 - blocking: 32 (0)
  • TB 3 Needs 5 (0)
  • TB 3.0b2 - wanted: 40 (-3)
• Proposed Blocking
  • Proposed Blockers (b? + milestone): 4 (+3)
• Fixed:
  • TB 3.0b2 - blocking: 59 (+14)
  • TB 3.0b2 - wanted: 23 (+2)

Mark bugs needing strings with status white board — [affects l10n]

• We need to drive bugs with large string changes, e.g., archive, auto config, activity manager
  • Archive patch landed.
  • Activity Manager backend landed but hidden, to be unhidden when users land and non-mac themes land.
  • AutoConfig bug 422814.
    • Moved to Thunderbird:Thunderbird 3.0b3 release

Thunderbird 3

• Thunderbird:Thunderbird3:DevRoadmap
• Blockers
  • blocking-thunderbird3+ 116 (-1)
• Proposed Blocking
  • Proposed Blockers (all): 23 (+1)

• we now have component drivers so that people actually own keeping subsets of the blocking list well-triaged
• bug list much more believable, thanks to last week's work
• things to file & triage:
  • component drivers: blocking+ / blocking? bugs
  • dmose: message reader bugs

• new triage rules
  • to stay on blocking+ list, a bug must be owned by someone, even if that's (temporarily) the component driver.
    • owned-by-driver bugs should have [needs owner] in status whiteboard

• to think about:
  • when do we branch? (i suspect immediately after b2)
  • when do we lock down the branch for only blocking+ and approved+ (i suspect a couple of weeks after b2)
  • There will be a TB 3 beta 3 (milestone created in bugzilla)

QA Updates

• After a leveling which started around September, UNCO is headed back downhill! The graph is also interesting in that it shows the rate of DUPs continues on a straight line despite all other activity. dupes be gone! (or begone?)
• Bugday focus continues on trunk bugs
• Some open topcrashes remain. Some have been recently fixed, but it would be great to get more into beta 2. And we have almost no trunk regression crashes which is at it should be (kudos to all!).
• Too many FIXED bugs have in-testsuite? flag - no change since 2009-01-13
• topcrash lists on crash-stats are inaccurate

Roundtable

• we need to spin up an AUS server. Gozer to drive figuring out what's involved. Note that planning the major update from TB2(MoCo AUS) to TB3(MoMo AUS) will take some planning.

• Website launch schedule for TB3b2 (see rebron's update)

Status Updates

davida

• driving
• work on activity manager (backend landed, autosync & move users next)
• work on thread & multiple selection bugs (448288, 454829)

dmose

• tb3 driving
• JS in messages policy & coding work
• security review process prep work
• gloda driving and review stuff, one or two other short reviews
• bugzilla component split discussion

nth10sd

• We may have one or two students from National University of Singapore who may be working on Thunderbird for ~3 months. More to come in the coming weeks.. (See bug 471368 as an example, though trivial. Personas _might_ follow too.)
• Spent a bunch of time fixing up bugday results due to Bugzilla reorg phase 2.

Standard8

Non-goal activities:

• reviews (mainly activity manager)
• bug 474439 Fixed broken LDAP lookups (last of the TB known regressions from password manager landing afaik).

Two week goals (start of week 2):

• Implement send in background and hook up to activity manager.
  • Resolved some issues with status updates bug 476467
  • Currently resolving issues with incorrect and wrong notifications to listeners, so that we can hook it up to the activity manager.
• Implement about:rights (bug 463367
  • Initial patch for just about:rights posted bug 463367
  • Have had some ideas for how to drive this forward.
• Try and get initial numbers for Ts to see if we can enable jemalloc.

bienvenu

• Reviews and driving
• Fixed bug 476135 Clicking on bad newsgroup link messes up Thunderbird's accounts
• Fixed bug 417285 Thunderbird inappropriately displays an alert when IMAP server returns a "NO" to list command
• Fixed archive for rss accounts bug 473217
• Fixed bug 370951, can't open/save imap attachments with # in name
• Fixed the outbox icon in the js folder pane bug 466261
• Worked on making actions apply to whole threads bug 448288

gozer

• Build
  • Upgraded to buildbot 0.9.7+mozilla patches [success]
  • Lots of little leftover buildbot/tinderbox fixes
  • GREEN Tree !
  • Tree and Builders are now stable, performance/reliability issues are resolved
  • We now have nightly linux trunk builds
  • We have the beginning of a pool of builders on Win32
    • Win32 trunk bloat, comm-1.9.1 bloat and dep/nightly builders are now a pair

• Web
  • Our very own copy of Markus Stange's tinderboxpushlog

• Infrastructure
  • Lots of experiments and progress with the SIP Phones situation
  • Looks like we really will need our own AUS

clarkbw

• 3.0b2 release driving work
• various bugs
  • bug 461098 — "Reply All" button missing when in message preview
    • bug 456829 — messagereader: honor font & color system defaults
  • bug 466674 — default action should be to send out html + plaintext w/o asking
• various ui-reviews
  • bug 473217 — archive command doesn't work in rss feeds

wsmwk

• triaged Outlook import bugs needing fields, most of the remaining open ones into meta bug 271976 (similar to bug 423488 but specific to outlook)
• bugday
• closed 101 bugs in last 2 weeks

KaiRo

• More buildsystem porting work landed: bug 475111, bug 476149, bug 475120
• bug 474732 - speeding up builds again when configure runs by not rebuilding the world when autoconf.mk is regenerated but only when it actually changes: landed on comm-central and today on mozilla-central, waiting for baking and approval to get onto 1.9.1

rebron

• QAing [web site] and wrapping up content loose ends.

Next two weeks:

• Investigating Google Adwords to drive distribution.
• Add-ons migration for Thunderbird 3.

Tsk

• catching up on how things work.