Thunderbird/StatusMeetings/2008-12-09

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Thunderbird Meeting Details

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

Agenda

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

Calls For Help

• davida would appreciate assistance on the autoconfiguration branch. (The awesome create-a-new-account screen where you just enter your e-mail address and it figures out most/all of the details for you.)
  • Cert dialog improvements post b1 would be useful.
• bienvenu: Go download and try out release candidate builds
• wsmwk: When trying the candidate builds, checkout the address book and message reader pane

Action Items

Open

• davida: needs to identify the major work items for thunderbird 3 and break them down by the beta/release they will be in.
• Release Thunderbird 3 Beta 1
• Drivers to review blocker nomination list for beta 1
• Thunderbird 3 Beta 2 planning and scheduling
• Add simon and gozer to drivers list

Thunderbird 3 Beta 1

• We have signed builds from MoCo and are releasing today!
• bienvenu is release driver
• gozer is build engineer
• String freeze from: 2008-11-13 (complete)
• Code Freeze date: 2008-11-25 (complete)
• RC 2 builds available here, in 38+ locales : http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/nightly/3.0b1-candidates/build2/
• Blockers
  • TB 3.0b1 - blocking: 3
• Proposed Blocking
  • Proposed Blockers (b1): 0
• Fixed:
  • TB 3.0b1 - blocking: 65
  • TB 3.0b1 - wanted: 24

Thunderbird 3 Beta 2

• ???? is release driver
• gozer is build engineer
• (Slushy?) String freeze from: TBD
• (Slushy?) Code freeze from: TBD

• Blockers/Wanted
  • TB 3.0b2 - blocking: 77
  • TB 3.0b2 - wanted: 27
• Proposed Blocking
  • Proposed Blockers (b2): Query TBD
  • Proposed Blockers (b? + milestone): 5
• Fixed:
  • TB 3.0b1 - blocking: 8
  • TB 3.0b1 - wanted: 5

Thunderbird 3

• Draft Thunderbird:Thunderbird3:DevRoadmap identifies major work items on the plate for Tb3 -- much of it needs scheduling, owning, breakdown.
  • DevRoadmap is updated. What left to do on Calendar is not clear.
  • Overall progress is very good.
  • folks interested in helping with front-end stuff, some simple, should ask in #maildev

Roundtable

Status Updates

jcranmer

• Finals week... probably won't be at call, should be on call next week, though.
• Revamped ab_rewrite public repo (see [1])
• Starting implementation for bug 444093 !
• Starting bug 118665 !
• Proposal for synchronization framework

Standard8

• Reviews
• Unit Tests
  • Thanks to asuth who has helped with fixing our two main intermittent faults over the last week (hopefully now fixed):
    • bug 463594 - Mac Leak & Bloat failures, as a result of OS X Address Book interface and shutdown issues (need to do a little follow up work on filing/moving appropriate bugs).
    • bug 468050 - Resolving gloda issues.
• Leak & Bloat
  • Moved forward with mozmill integration. Now have mozmill starting up from python script and integrating into the Thunderbird profile - just need to get it running the actual tests.
• Password Manager
  • bug 467965 Improved nsISmtpServer to make the password manager changes cleaner.
  • bug 468444 Fixed constants for default ports so that we can get at them consistently and from js
  • Implemented SMTP protocol handlers for smtp/smtps and started writing tests for the other protocols
• Address Book
  • bug 455246 Did the first of the patches for Card -> Contact rename in address book.
• Misc
  • bug 467878 Implemented MOZILLA_1_9_1_BRANCH define
  • bug 468235 Removed some dead build config stuff from other-licenses.
  • bug 327872 Fix fax problems in LDAP schema
  • bug 468486 Leak & Bloat tests should not start up with the What's New page
  • bug 468481 Don't show the What's New page for new profiles.
  • bug 466527 Diagnosed problem with What's New page.
  • bug 467012 Opening mails in message window gives only a blank window - to land at the same time as bug 407725 does in mozilla-1.9.1

Two week goals (week 2):

• Move to toolkit password manager (in progress)
• Move Leak and Bloat tests to be controlled by MozMill (in progress)
• Write down extended roadmap overview for the address book (based on discussion during MoMo work week).

bienvenu

• Reviews
• Driving beta 1
• Fixed spotlight mozeml generation bug 468198, worked with humph and sid0 on reviving Spotlight integration in general.
• Fixed manual offline download, bug 468155
• Working on making folder and offline store compaction unit-testable.

gozer

• Build
  • Thunderbird 3 Beta 1 Build 2
    • Best build so far, worked the first time
    • symbols covered on the first pass
    • crash-stats still problematic
    • complete MARs need redoing bug 468488, bug 468468
  • Build VMs will be moving to our hardware after Beta 1 is released
  • Signing is still done my MoCo.
    • Meeting with buildeng to figure this out before TB 3 (ideally, before Beta 2)
  • Buildbot
    • Upgrading to buildbot 0.9.7 still waiting
    • doubling capacity for mozilla-central vs. mozilla-1.9.1

• Web
  • SpreadThunderbird staging server is back
  • Analytics ??
  • Sumo ??

• Infrastructure
  • Phone server is good, quality is not (needs more work)

clarkbw

• Two Week Goals (week 2):
  • Push new iteration of Conversation List into exptoolbar
  • Review Conversation Reader and continue to iterate on