Thunderbird/StatusMeetings/2009-10-13

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Thunderbird Meeting Details :

• Tuesday, October 13th, 16:30 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

• Planning for a dry-run security firedrill build
  • Split the TODOs into two sections to so that we now have a short list of things that we really need to decide on.
  • Sent emails asking questions.
  • Will discuss remaining with Thunderbird drivers this week (probably via email).

Thunderbird 3

• Now in String freeze
• Schedule:
  • Creation of comm-1.9.1 branch: 2009-10-22 (proposed)
  • Code Freeze for RC1: 2009-10-30 23:59 PST
  • L10n deadline: 2009-11-02 23:59 PST
  • RC1 builds start on: 2009-11-03
  • Subsequent RCs as necessary.

• Blockers
  • blocking-thunderbird3+: 56 (-4)
  • TB 3 Needs: 2 (+1)
• Proposed Blocking
  • Proposed Blockers (all): 10 (-7)
• Wanted
  • Wanted Thunderbird 3: 274

• Fixed RC1
  • TB 3.0rc1 - blocking: 82 (+19)

• 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.
• If you see what look like theme/css issues, especially on Windows, please file a bug, with a screenshot, and the version of Windows you're running. Tag it with a "polish" keyword, and nominate it for blocking-tb3?.

QA Updates

Last week :

• Regular Triage event
• continued Crash monitoring
• Top crasher got a Testcase
• Looked into multilingual QA

This week :

• Update event - we'll provide support for people updating from older versions of Thunderbird to either 3.0b4 or Latest nightly, more details at : Thunderbird:QA_TestDay:2009-10-15
• Start thinking about testing for rc1

Marketing Updates

• Press watch: End of the Email Era worth reading through the comments
• Press tour coordination.
• SpreadThunderbird has new theme on staging, launching with new theme this week.
• Handed off new icon, getting into builds soon. (still need to blog about it)
• Web localization handed off to pascalc and team. A few pages still in progress (release notes, features page needs screen shots, and press release).

IT update

• bug 470679 - l10n nightly updates (complete+partials) available on comm-central trunk
• mini in production, building OS X comm-1.9.1 nightlies flawlessly so far
• bug 520628 - Planning production/staging infrastructure for MoMo SUMO

Roundtable

Status Updates

Standard8

• Reviews and Driving
• Thinking about security releases.
• A little bit of holiday.
• Resolved issue with trunk builds that stopped updates (and ssl) working.
• bug 520977 Dock icon doesn't reset when it gets to zero unread messages.
• bug 338549 Mailnews account password prompts at startup no longer serial.
  • Happy with POP3 patch but a tester suggested it may not be quite right, need to investigate more.

bienvenu

• Reviews and Driving
• Fix hang on shutdown if you shutdown immediately after closing a compose window where you've done autocomplete against ssl ldap, bug 420744
• fix retention settings getting propagated from folder to server and thus to all folders on the server, bug 515316
• Make empty trash on smart folder empty all the trashes, bug 517723
• Only display start page once per life of thread pane/tab, part of bug 520272, speed up opening folders
• Make sure streaming imap messages with aLocalOnly set doesn't sometimes fetch message from server, especially for compact offline store case, bug 519801
• Remove new mail account from old mail wizard for tb, bug 515479
• Clear pendingRemoval attribute after applying retention settings in case retention settings change so we don't keep purging messages that no longer should be purged, and then redownloading them, bug 521134
• Detect empty upload file earlier on in process so we don't get left hanging with an unfinished url, and keep trying to playback the offline upload, bug 497598

gozer

• Build
  • l10n updates live on comm-central trunk
  • momo-vm-leopard-02 imaged from a mini is in staging
  • Wrangled an interesting Apple gcc-4.2 bug bug 520401

• Web
  • MoMo SUMO bug 520628 work in progress

• Infrastructure
  • Production/Staging setup for SUMO

Tsk

• see the QA update.

bwinton

Last week:

• Closed bug 494430, bug 490430, bug 518586, and bug 520457.
• Posted patches to bug 519505.
• Reviewed bug 511417, bug 519916, and bug 519110.

This week:

• Continue to help students with ISPDB.
• More work on the rest of my blockers, and maybe start into some tb3-wanted.

sgautherie

• Fixed (or in-progress) MailNews Core bugs:
  • bug 513709 configure.in: Remove some useless vars, mozilla-* ones are enough