Thunderbird/StatusMeetings/2017-05-16

Thunderbird notes 2017-05-16 NOON PT (Pacific). For meeting time, previous notes and call-in details see https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird/StatusMeetings

Attendees

Jorg K, Paenglab, mkmelin, fallen, sancus, wsmwk, aceman, arshad

MAIN FOCUS OF MEETING

Action items from last meetings

Current status / Announcements

• Mozilla Thunderbird’s Future Home - https://blog.mozilla.org/thunderbird/2017/05/thunderbirds-future-home/ published

Current Release Critical Issues

• tracking matrix: (broken) http://hg.mozilla.org/users/kent_caspia.com/drivertools/raw-file/default/bugtracking/index.html
  • leftovers of nominated 38(?) : http://tinyurl.com/pgwflyg
• Tree issues:
  • https://public.etherpad-mozilla.org/p/thunderbird-tree-status (somewhat abandoned)
  • dashboard: https://mozilla.kewis.ch/treestatus/#/tb-treestatus
  • c-c looking fairly good- Perma-red/orange: https://mzl.la/2lrQTHC

blocking

• needs someone to fix make build problem, is blocking Betas - bug 1362611 Thunderbird 54.0b1 build2: build step failed on win32

Version 52

• tracking-tbesr52+tb52 flags: unfixed ?/+ - https://mzl.la/2pULYoU (tracking-tb52: https://mzl.la/2dVQYjg)

• 54beta (and effectively esr52) blocked by automation bug 1360700 - resolved by backout on release branch

• most needed for ESR52:
  • Regressions waiting for TB 54 beta: https://mzl.la/2pQ8qvF and
  • bug 682474 - Lightning hides Thunderbird master password prompt + bug 1176399 - Multiple master password when GMail OAuth2 - FIXED needs beta 54, then uplift to c-esr52
  • Unfixed regressions: https://mzl.la/2pQmPYI among them
  • bug 1353625 - Thunderbird 52 prints blank pages - UNFIXED - see bug 1336657 for Firefox.
  •  ?unclear how critical bug 1346649 - Ignore scaling Print option working opposite of expected on Mac OSX - UNFIXED

Releases

• Past
  • 45.8.0 (2017-03-07)
  • 52.0beta 4 (2017-02-28)
  • 53.0b1 (2017-04-10)
  • 52.0 ESR (2017-04-04)
  • 52.0.1 ESR (2017-04-14)
  • 53.0b2 (2017-04-19)
  • 52.1.0 ESR (2017-04-30) (rush job for gmail problem)
  • 52.1.1 ESR (2017-05-15 - plan to enable automatic updates from 45.x)

• Upcoming - https://wiki.mozilla.org/RapidRelease/Calendar#Future_branch_dates
  • next branch: 2017-06-12
  • 54.0b1 (??)

Lightning

Past releases:

• 4.7.8 (bundled)
• 5.4 (TB 52 ESR)

Upcoming releases:

Round Table

Jorg K

• Landed:
  • bug 1361020 Regression: POP: Can't download message after downloading headers only
  • bug 1362461 Bustage-fix (about:support, about:downloads), backed out in the end
  • bug 1362466 bustage-fix (pref gecko.handlerService.defaultHandler)
  • bug 1360443 Write test for display of embedded cid: images with crossorigin="anonymous"
  • bug 1364758 Bustage-fix (remove package)
  • bug 1364787 Bustage-fix (extensions.startupScanScopes)
  • bug 1358049 Garbled font name if font name contains non-acsii character
• Awaiting review:
  • bug 1364723 Regression: Newsgroups, link: "Click here to remove all expired articles" stopped working
  • bug 1365319 Bustage-fix (plugins allowed in messages)
• Ongoing:
  • bug 1342745 Fix leaks in IMAP/Gloda
  • bug 1176748 Outlook import crash

mkmelin

• bug 1364178 - undefined variable on Box.com filelink error situation

sancus

• Website delayed to end of May.
• committed to start working on AMO in June.

wsmwk

• releases

aceman

nothing significant - but helpful always and everywhere ;-) (Jorg K)

Paenglab

Fallen

• We have a new Google Summer of Code student!

Arshad

Covert XUL to HTML Proposal link - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GMlUx1fjhYh8uO8IoormrsBXKXMVA2Vbs0Rd9ppZ9_g/edit#

Question Time

Action Items

Help Wanted

• Accessibility lead
• Person comfortable (not necessarily technical experts) with Core type issues. Example, graphics to guide bug 1195947 Thunderbird hardware acceleration (HWA) issues to be resolved