Thunderbird/StatusMeetings/2008-12-30

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Thunderbird Meeting Details

• Tuesday, Dec 30, 17:30 UTC (9:30am Pacific, 12:30pm Eastern)
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Agenda

• Who's taking minutes? --> standard8
• Minute taking Schedule. Talk to davida for schedule changes/additions.

Action Items

Open

• dmose - Draw up straw man schedule for shipping one month after Firefox.
• dmose - Suggest to drivers about a new flag for potential post-TB3 blockers.

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
• Proposed: Slushy string freeze from: Monday 2nd February 23:59 PST
• Proposed: Firm string freeze and slushy Code freeze from: Thursday 5th February 23:59 PST

• Blockers/Wanted
  • TB 3.0b2 - blocking: 75 (-1)
  • TB 3.0b2 - wanted: 27 (0)
• Proposed Blocking
  • Proposed Blockers (b? + milestone): 9 (0)
• Fixed:
  • TB 3.0b2 - blocking: 18 (+2)
  • TB 3.0b2 - wanted: 11 (0)

Thunderbird 3

• Thunderbird:Thunderbird3:DevRoadmap

QA Updates

• topcrashes
  • bug 422907 nsMsgLocalMailFolder::GetTrashFolder (rootFolder is null)
  • bug 470804 NS_GetInnermostURI (CAPS?) (TB2) (no "owner")
  • bug 470808 nsProxyEventObject::CallMethod (imap)
  • bug 470835 nsMsgLocalMailFolder::AddMessage (should be fixed in 12-23 nightly)

Roundtable

Status Updates

nth10sd

• Now back full steam post-Christmas & through the new year.
• Usual occasional bug triage.
• Working on first automated TB litmus test 5426.
• Got some TB patches into MozMill.
  • getMail3PaneController() should work perfectly.
  • getAddrbkController() should also work (almost) perfectly.
  • Now there's only a non-working new/getMsgComposeController() left..
    • (Taken out since there's a simple keypress workaround)

Standard8

• Reviews
• Password Manager
  • Almost complete patch now available on bug 433316
  • Need to sort out "password protect cache" - have some ideas, hope to solidify this week.
  • Also still need one sr in ldap before it can land bug 419595
• Mozmill in Leak & Bloat
  • Did some work to simplify running mozmill with TB and highlight the parts that are still preventing us from running the tests automatically, raised bug 471510 to cover the details
• Misc
  • bug 468108 Pointed the l10n dashboard to the right repository (mozilla-1.9.1) for l10n comparisons etc

Two week goals (End of week 2):

• Complete Password Manager migration
  • See above, almost complete
• Complete moving Leak and Bloat to Mozmill
  • Blocked by Mozmill issues bug 471510
• Lead Address Book discussions
  • Delayed due to Christmas
• Investigate fixing LDAP Issues with threads and shutdown.
  • Delayed due to Christmas
• Look at Performance tests
  • Delayed due to Christmas

Two week goals (Start of week 1):

• Complete Password Manager migration
• Complete moving Leak and Bloat to Mozmill (if Mozmill issues are resolved)
• Investigate if there is a simpler way to switch fully to toolkit autocomplete without doing too much work.
• Look at Performance tests
  • Get some rough ideas of what & how.
  • See if we can get a Ts structure in place (or something else)
    • This would be useful for jemalloc and assessing implementing a packages-static file for unix.

bienvenu

Two week goals (end of week 2):

• Turn autoconfig branch into a reviewable patch for trunk
  • Deferred rest of work until I've finished the folder archiving work
  • Got autoconfig working again on the branch, made all the strings localizable, and added code to prevent creation of duplicate accounts.
• Finish folder compaction changes and unit tests.
  • patch up for review
• Reduce review queue backlog
  • Review queue in reasonable shape.

Two week goals (week 2)

• Finish folder archiving work. bug 451995
  • several dependent bugs fixed or awaiting review
  • rest of work will probably have to wait until next week

Two week goals (week 1)

• Try to knock off some beta 2 blockers between the holiday festivities

emre

• Two week goals
  • Finalizing activity manager and activity manager integration of core components.
  • Implementing a two level auto-sync model for TB-Idle cases.

gozer

• Build
  • Rewrote the unittest buildbot master to be branch-capable
    • Moving builders over to it as we speak
  • Mac OS X now using Dwarf (crash symbols issues seem resolved too)

• Web
  • SpreadThunderbird Google Analytics live.
  • Got a fully working bouncer installation, need to think about production setup

• Personnal
  • On vacation: Jan 9th - Jan 16th (on call)