Thunderbird/StatusMeetings/2009-03-10

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Thunderbird Meeting Details :

• Tuesday, Mar 10th, 16:30 UTC (9:30am Pacific, 12:30pm Eastern) Changed UTC time
• How to dial-in

Agenda

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

Thunderbird 3 Beta 3

• dmose is release driver
• gozer is build engineer
• Schedule TBD (drivers working through User_talk:Dmose:Tb3_Driving_Scratchpad)

• Blockers/Wanted
  • TB 3.0b3 - blocking: 74 (+1)
  • TB 3.0b3 - wanted: 23 (0)
• Proposed Blocking
  • Proposed Blockers (b? + milestone): 1 (0)
• Fixed:
  • TB 3.0b3 - blocking: 21 (+7)
  • TB 3.0b3 - wanted: 6 (+2)

Thunderbird 3

• Thunderbird:Thunderbird3:DevRoadmap
• Blockers
  • blocking-thunderbird3+ 120 (+5)
  • TB 3 Needs: 3 (-1)
• Proposed Blocking
  • Proposed Blockers (all): 16 (-1)

• Please set bugs to assigned status (as well as owner to you) if you want to do them.
• If you have other bugs assigned to you that you don't want to do, please reassign or discuss with drivers.
• Trying to put together a schedule that will land features every week or two. dmose will be putting a plan together.

QA Updates

• Testing updates for releases prior to beta2
• Organized a DUPME bug day -> 10 bugs got changes on the dupme query
• Will continue with bugdays until we have a better schedule for beta 3.
• Hope we will be able to update prior releases to beta2 in oreder to figure out what is crashig in beta2.

Roundtable

Google Summer of Code

• Google Page
• Brainstorming page
• Projects with confirmed mentors

Please add your suggestions to the brainstorming page, doesn't matter if you don't want to be a mentor, ideas are the important part at this stage. Remember it needs to be about an 8-week chunk.

Students start discussing ideas on 18th March, start applying on 23rd March.

Status Updates

nth10sd

• bug 326483 - create sample email for test; seems WFM.
  • Won't Save Incoming Mail Attachment if Chinese file name
• bug 460605 - Initial testing done, waiting on more info.
  • Message Reader: header pane context menu popup takes too long for contacts in long list with lots of addresses
• Some security bug triage.
• Bugdays, QA, etc.

Standard8

• Reviews
• Bug triage
• Activity Manager
  • bug 477862 Activity Manager: activity list doesn't clear permanently until restart.
  • bug 482253 Fix Activity Manager's themes so that text can be read when window is not focused, and make it easier for themes to be applied across all activity types.
  • bug 481431 Provide a centralised alert/message service in mailnews to allow different front-end displays for alerts.
  • bug 482466 Hook activity manager into the new alert/error listening mechanism.
• Misc
  • bug 479844 Consolidate checking for messages to send later into one function.

Two week goals:

• Reduce review backlog to zero
• bug 450134 - Autocomplete perf improvement (inc restore autocomplete on other email addresses).
  • Proposed a patch for this, got review comments, need to improve.
• bug 440794 - Implement policy for sending in background, pref off to begin with.
  • Defferred due to activity manager improvements (and heading towards non-modal alerts).
• bug 457296 - Design interfaces for a separate service (i.e. not directly linked to address book) to determine allowing remote images to load or not.
  • Initial design for back-end posted.
  • Need to figure out storage mechanism.
  • Have ideas for Pref UI changes.

gozer

• Build
  • Try server (in progress)
  • Betatest updates ready for Alpha*/Beta1 => Beta2 bug 471584
    • Complete updates all around except for 3.0b1 Linux/Mac en-US
    • Learned a lot more about patcher!
    • When/How do we go live with this ?
  • Clobberer server! (gozer/Standard8 have access, if you want it too, file a bug)

• Web
  • New website got a few performance fixups and tweaks
    • Saw > 2,200,000 hits in the last 24 hours
    • > 80k visits in the last 24 hours
    • > 40k unique visits to the 3.0b2 Start page in the last 96 hours

• Infrastructure
  • Buildbot timeouts issues look like they have finally vanished beyond the 'acceptable' horizon
    • bug 476677 & bug 476649
    • Various fixes, mostly about giving Buildbot more/faster I/O
• 80% recovered from the sick... better

rkent

My mailnews work has focused recently on three primary activity threads:

• Bayesian filter feature extensions, including more precise control of application, and use with rss and nntp
  • bug 478840 (landed) Support inherited folder properties
  • bug 481676 (in review) Move bayes listeners to nsMsgDBFolder
  • bug 471833 (next) Provide hooks to control calculation of bayesian filter traits
• Prevent loss of message database information
  • bug 459680 (partial solution in review) Moves and copies should move all database info
  • bug 340886 (not started) Junk status changes to "unknown" when I delete or separate an attachment
• Search all address fields capability
  • bug 310359 (parent, partial solution landed) search all address fields capability (Bcc:s too!)
  • bug 381667 (in review) Support BCC in message summary files
  • (unfiled) add BCC to All Messages search
  • (unfiled) support reordering of message search terms
  • (unfiled) support all message search in online IMAP search

I'm largely review limited at the moment, which I expect to get continually worse, so I think I only have another couple of weeks of mailnews patches before I can pretty much kiss further TB3 work goodbye.

Tsk

• Done :
  • DUPME event - not satisfied by results
  • Attended MozCamp/Utrecht
    • Met a few interested people
    • Once STEEL's out we should attend Extension Workshop

• Continuing:
  • QA plan
  • Engaging communities

• Todo:
  • Try to communicate more effectively
  • explain what and why QA is important - to try to get w few more people onboard
  • Plan tb3.0b3 testing