Thunderbird/StatusMeetings/2009-10-06

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Thunderbird Meeting Details :

• Tuesday, October 6th, 16:30 UTC (9:30am Pacific, 12:30pm Eastern)
• How to dial-in

Agenda

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

Action Items

Open

• We should engage the beta testing community in helping with the what's new and release notes pages, especially explaining why we've changed things, and how to get back to the old behavior. jenzed suggested an MDC page. (jz: see https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Thunderbird_3_for_users)
• Planning for a dry-run security firedrill build
• At 2:30 PDT tomorrow, there will be a Thunderbird security review, dmose will send out the details today

Thunderbird 3

• Now in String freeze
• Schedule (proposed, may change):
  • Code Freeze for RC1: 2009-10-30 23:59 PST
  • L10n deadline: 2009-10-02 23:59 PST
  • RC1 builds start on: 2009-10-03
  • Subsequent RCs as necessary.

• Blockers
  • blocking-thunderbird3+: 62 (-4)
  • TB 3 Needs: 1 (-1)
• Proposed Blocking
  • Proposed Blockers (all): 16 (+10)
• Wanted
  • Wanted Thunderbird 3: 273

• Fixed RC1
  • TB 3.0rc1 - blocking: 57 (+18)

• 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

• topcrashes
  • needs help - if you crash with b4 take the time to read this, and see if those bugs are involved :
    • bug 513543 Crash [@MimeInlineTextHTML_parse_eof ]
    • bug 518807 startup crash [@ nsRefPtr<ISearchManager>::StartAssignment()]

Last week :

• regular bugday not much to say
• volume of bugmail is getting up - if you want to help with bugs get in touch with ludovic@mozillamessaging.com.

This week :

• regular bugday event - join you are more then welcome :-)
• Initial 2. to 3.0 migration pushed up a week to be able to get more announced in the air.

Support

1. Top 5 GS Thunderbird 2 Support Topics (code in progress: http://gist.github.com/190923 )

basically the same as last week, more problems reported ths week with sending email

1. 1. Cannot send email
   2. Cannot receive email
   3. Cannot read old email (compact folders seems to fix it, sometimes have to create new profile and migrate old email into new profile)
   4. Address Book (not visible, can't undelete, lost, possibly related to these bugs found by Standard8: 486498, 299346, 394797 )
   5. Attachments (attachments not working, corrupted)
2. Thunderbird 3 Beta Top Support Issues (not many reported)
   1. dictionary issues: missing British English Dictionary and Australian Dictionary not working
3. SUMO for MoMo tracker ticket: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=520628, depends on bugs to be filled in today
4. Will engage Campus Reps students in Thunderbird support - call for volunteers email will go out this week
5. Key Support stats from the following graphic:
   1. approximately 15 / day (110/7)
   2. total new topics:110 total replies: 74 (Ruby Code)
      1. date:20090929 #new support topics:14 resolved:4
      2. date:20090930 #new support topics:16 resolved:7
      3. date:20091001 #new support topics:21 resolved:7
      4. date:20091002 #new support topics:15 resolved:7
      5. date:20091003 #new support topics:6 resolved:5
      6. date:20091004 #new support topics:4 resolved:0
      7. date:20091005 #new support topics:4 resolved:0
   3. #replies from non MoMo folks: 7 from Lightning folks (thanks Martin and Philipp!) 3 from Thomas (thanks!) 1 from TMZ (thanks) MoMo folks: 43 from Roland, 13 from Mark Banner (thanks!)
   4. happiness metric: API doesn't have happiness emotitags, asked GS staff about that, code in progress: http://gist.github.com/190094, manual happiness metric = 71 - 43 = 28, will incorporate hendrix for next week

Roundtable

Status Updates

Standard8

• Reviews and Driving
• Provided input for an attended security review
• bug 519951 Closing a contentTab leaks an nsBrowserStatusFilter and others.
• bug 338549 Mailnews account password prompts at startup no longer serial.
  • Got POP3 patch almost ready for review.
• Proposed patch for bug 447927 Additional Email field of address book entries not included in address autocompletion (after updating patches on bug 455714 and then finding I couldn't actually use them).

sgautherie

• Eventually adding myself:
  • From now on, I'll report (here) when I fix MailNews Core (or Thunderbird) bugs.
  • In case someone doesn't know, I'm from the SeaMonkey team.
• Attended EU MozCamp 2009 in Prague.