Thunderbird/StatusMeetings/2009-07-28

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Thunderbird Meeting Details :

• Tuesday, July 28st, 16:30 UTC (9:30am Pacific, 12:30pm Eastern)
• How to dial-in

Agenda

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

Action Items

Open

• Autoconfig process
  • Webapp currently being tested to fix some initial problems, will open up for broader testing soon, i.e., move the webapp to a place where more people can access it.

Thunderbird 3 Beta 4

• Release Driver: Standard8
• Build Engineer: gozer

• Blockers/Wanted
  • TB 3.0b4 - blocking 82 (+3)
  • b3ux TBD
• Proposed Blocking (all milestones)
  • Proposed Blockers (all): 79 (+17)
• Fixed:
  • TB 3.0b4 - blocking 7 (+5)

• Main things we want to land:
  • gloda (by default)
  • background sending,
  • message headers improvements
  • autoconfig
    • With ispdb
    • locales string
  • autosync space/time policies sorted out.

• This week will see more aggressive cutting down of the blocking and proposed bugs, figuring out what we don't really need for the release
• Proposed Dates (any feedback to Standard8 please):
  • Friday, September 11th is the proposed target for code freeze
  • Tuesday September 22th, is the proposed estimated release day
  • Following with the final string freeze 1 week after release
  • RC1 proposed date Tuesday, November 3rd for code freeze
  • Final release dates will depend on RC1

Thunderbird 3

• Thunderbird:Thunderbird3:DevRoadmap

• Blockers
  • blocking-thunderbird3+ 149 (-2)
  • Chart
  • TB 3 Needs: 9 (0)
• Proposed Blocking
  • Proposed Blockers (all): 79 (+17)
• Wanted
  • Wanted Thunderbird 3 238

• 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.

QA Updates

• Usage of TB3.0b3 is going up as are crash-stats -> bugs are being updated to reflect usage we see.
• Tb3.0b3 was released last week - Auto-update in progress.
• Normal bug day for this week.

Marketing Updates

• Thunderbird 3 Beta 3 press - Total Articles: 51; Total Original: 23; Total Pick ups: 28; highlights: Lifehacker and c|Net articles
• Good response at OSCON on Thunderbird 3 progress.
• Still on iteration 4 for Thunderbird logo, expecting to wrap up designs this week.

IT update

• All MoCo build machines have been be retired
  • tbnewref-win32-tbox.build
  • tb-linux-tbox.build
• ISPDB is now available for restricted preview
  • Ask me on irc if you want/need access
• Calendar OS X build machine is back in business
  • Nightly Lightning/Sunbird builds are back
• Staging buildbot master is up and running
  • Currently helping getting MozMill tests up and running

Documentation

Jen is on vacation until the end of the month

Roundtable

https://wiki.mozilla.org/EU_MozCamp_2009 is coming up

Status Updates

nth10sd

• (TB UNCO bugs < 2k now. Yay!)
• Thunderbird 3 Beta 3 changelog @ The Rumbling Edge
• Discovered crasher bug 505974 while fiddling with Mozmill.
• patchlove mostly settled.
• Chatted with Roland on support.
• Regular QA, triage, bugdays.
• qawanted - bug 476708

sid0

Will be working part-time while in school

davida

• Last Week:
  • OSCON
• This week
  • Account central & folder summary patch pushing
  • Fixing up thread summary bugs
  • Pushing ahead on ISPDB

dmose

• vacation

Standard8

• Reviews & Driving
• Mozmill
  • Landed the new make mozmill & make mozmill-one code.
  • Helping Gozer set up buildbot. Currently trying to sort out issues with running mozmill under buildbot.
  • Mozmill has internal version of httpd server. Example of use on bug 492279.
• Created POP version of the patch for bug 121647 POP/IMAP server passwords are inappropriately forgotten. Currently writing unit test.

Next week:

• Finish off bug 121647
• Pick up send in background work again.

asuth

• working on performance investigation
• working on things required to pref gloda on

bienvenu

• Reviews and Driving
• Helped a bit with the fix for bug 249841, offline imap body search issues
• Fixed bug 505487 - regression in custom header begins/ends with matching, and separate regression in search ui enabling/handling of custom headers.
• Added basic xpcshell search tests, including one to catch above regression
• Fixed mark read on exit handling, bug 503624, and added xpcshell test for the feature.
• Cleaned up imap undo code a bit in preparation for fixing undo after expunge, bug 323875
• Fixed adding of new headers to open cross-folder threaded saved searches, bug 505321, added a test for that to test_nsMsgDBView.js, and fixed the error detection functions in that file so that they detect errors.
• Started work on auto sync disk usage constraints bug 482476 - wrote patch to enable marking of msg headers as pending removal so that offline store compaction will reclaim space, pending review.

Next week

• Continue and I hope finish work in IMAP undo bug 323875
• Continue work on auto sync disk usage constraints
• Other b4 blockers

gozer

• Build
  • Updates to Beta 3 are almost ready to ship bug 506230
  • Assisting Standard8 in getting MozMill tests running on buildbot
    • Look form them on the ThunderbirdTest tree
  • Hunting down OS X Nightly issues bug 505191

• Web
  • ISPDB is in preview

• Infrastructure
  • Staging buildbot server up and running

clarkbw

Last Week

• ui-reviews
• catching up on missed work

This week

• Header refinement and roundup
• Autoconfig work

wsmwk

• triaging
  • now that bug 499926 is fixed - add Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 to talkback topcrashes - crossreferrencing TB2 crashes to trunk crashes
  • adding 3.0b3 topcrashes
  • SM crashers and mailnews - another pass
  • usual stuff

beckley

Penelope

• Fixed up window save/restore after recent tab changes in TB

• More work on filter auto-naming bug 457745

• Hope to have a new beta of Eudora/Penelope this week

KaiRo

• Released SeaMonkey 2.0 Beta 1 in 17 languages and with partial and complete updates fully working from day 1
• Got a fix into the release harness to make it understand our version-191.txt files for bumping
• Convinced the SeaMonkey team to target a September 1 freeze for 2.0 Beta 2
• Need to get final done before November to stay mentally somewhat sane

rebron

• Marketing planning for remainder of the year.
• Mozilla Camp Europe Call for papers, please take a look.

Tsk

done :

• Finished Tests for 3.0b3
• Tested auto-updates

todo:

• Start thinking about Migrating from 2.x -> 3.x
• Prepare test day for beta4

andreasn

• Last week
  • Got a Vista machine and set up the build.
  • Lots of Vista icons and theme fixes.
  • Quick account layout bug 506290
  • Look into that no dialogs get clipped bug 504042

• This week
  • Lots of more Vista theme work bug 488060
  • Look into that no dialogs get clipped bug 504042

bwinton

Last week:

• Fixed bug 502856.
• Put up patches for bug 495478 and bug 490097.
• Started looking into bug 503436.

This week:

• Continue working on bug 495478, and bug 503436.
• Start working on bug 248681 if we know what we want it to look like.

roland

• spoke with nth10sd about QA and support and bugzilla and ludo as well about support and QA
• getting my feet wet with actual support, answered two far
• working on 506473 linking to getsatisfaction.com/mozilla_messaging instead of getsatisfaction/mozilla/products/mozilla_thunderbird
• familiarizing myself with Get Satisfaction and how we can use it for support

Attendees

davida, gozer, Standard8, rebron, nth10sd, asuth, bienvenu, clarkbw, wsmwk, beckley, KaiRo, Tsk, bwinton, roland