SeaMonkey/StatusMeetings/2012-05-15

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SeaMonkey Meeting Details

• Time: 15 May, 2012, 12:00 UTC
  • (8am Eastern, 1pm UK, 2pm Central Europe, 8pm Hong Kong)
• Location: #seamonkey IRC channel
• Further Read: Basics

Agenda

• Who's taking minutes? -> TBD
• Nominees for Friends of the Fish Tank:
  • None

Action Items

(who needs to do what that hasn't been recorded in a bug) We should assign people to the open items.

NEW

• IanN to arrange with Jeff to send a tee-shirt or something to Serge (FotFT).
  • No response from Serge to email, will try contacting on IRC.

OPEN

CLOSED

Status of the SeaMonkey Buildbot Master and Tree

• TBD

Release Train

• 2.9b4 shipped April 19
• 2.9 shipped April 24
• 2.9.1 shipped April 30

Extensions Compatibility Tracking

• See Basics page. Please only list current changes here.
• Addon Compatibility Listings
  • Nothing special this time.

2.x (Last, Current, Next)

• 2.9 had ~X ADU by last Tuesday and ~Y downloads so far (~Zk in the last 2 weeks).
  • Of the released versions, as of last Tuesday, we have A% on 2.0, B% on 2.1-2.3, C% on 2.4, D% on 2.5, E% on 2.6, F% on 2.7, G% on 2.8 and H% on 2.9. So, in the last two weeks, ~Ik (an additional J% of ADU) have migrated to 2.6 or above.
• Still a large, but slowly decreasing, chunk of users on 2.0.x.
• Figure out what is preventing people from moving from 2.0.x to the latest versions.
  • Some people cannot upgrade due to system requirements (OS version, processor capabilities etc.)
  • Perhaps putting resources into getting certain extensions working with SM 2.4 and above (those that won't work with SM 2.7 automatically due to compatible-by-default extensions).
  • Still need volunteers to look at what is keeping people at below 2.4. IanN could try knocking something up and send it round members lists for polishing but he's not on all the channels (mozillazine, etc) to post it to when finished.
  • Are some Linux distributions are still stuck on 2.0? We have data on OSes and OS versions in the raw data in the Mozilla metrics.
  • metrics.mozilla.org now provides us a breakdown of versions against OS.
  • There seems to be a very small number of 2.0.x users on OSes not supported by later versions. We even have some users on windows 7 using 2.0x! Fortunately Windows 8 users are at least using 2.7.
  • Darwin 9.8 is last version with PPC support, so those people may stuck on old versions because of that.
  • Ian will do some working on comparing profile of 2.0.x users against 2.8 ones.
• See Basics page for the usual reminders.

2.9

open tracking (0) tracking requests (1) targeted (3) fixed (5)

• One tracked 2.5 issue still open.
  • 2.1 through 2.7 have NOT included the ka (Kartvelian aka Georgian) locale. The last release with ka locale shipped was 2.0.14 and the ka l10n maintainers have not yet updated for changes in later SeaMonkey versions.
  • Callek now needs to morph bug 667147 into removing |ka| from our [current] automation entirely (all-locales). Callek will look at best locale to transition any ka users to.
    • Plan is to migrate ka users to en-US with a english dialog saying they are out of date, and a link to the all-locales page if there is a language they understand better. Current ADU of ka alone is 3-5 individuals, so low impact.~Callek
    • Callek and ewong are working on this and they should be able to get this done by the time 2.9 ships.
• One regression issue noted for 2.8: bug 735946 Browser is not not focused when opening links from external applications. Fixed on 2.9+.

2.Next

• TBD

Feature List, Planning

Bug statistics for last two (full) weeks: 36 new, 26 fixed, 41 triaged.

• Good triaging effort.

Open reviews/flags: 20 review 9 super-review 1 ui-review 6 feedback

• See Feature List page for major wanted/needed features.

Roundtable - Personal Status Updates

Status Updates from developers - what are you working on, what's the progress, any other comments? (feel free to add yourself to the list if your name is missing and you have interesting status).

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• Fixed:
  • bug 753475 "JavaScript strict warning: chrome://messenger/content/messengerdnd.js, line 66: function CanDropOnFolderTree does not always return a value"
  • bug 753050 Port |bug 746859 - Add a play icon to the click-to-play placeholder| to Modern
  • bug 751253 Reference to non-existing dictionaryGeneric.png in mozapps/extensions/newaddon.css
  • bug 750855 Port |bug 728168 - Replace old synchronous favicons calls in feeds|
  • bug 750226 Add zh-TW to "official builds" and "language packs" list in SeaMonkey Download & Releases page
  • bug 750028 Update SeaMonkey website for 2.9.1
  • bug 747788 Update SeaMonkey website for 2.9
  • bug 747519 Port new doorhanger options from |bug 711618 - implement basic click to play permission model|
  • bug 747155 Update SeaMonkey website for 2.9 Beta 4
  • bug 738247 Create/Update 2.9 Release Notes
  • bug 567518 Consider supporting or switching to SSL Google search (https)

Ratty

Fixed:

• bug 701432 Add support for fave icons on jump list uri entries.
• bug 747774 The Windows 7 Jumplist is using the mailbiff icon, should use html-file.ico instead.
• bug 748991 The Find in Page Dialog does not vertically center the highlighted result like the findbar does.
• bug 752336 Location Bar doesn't revert back to the correct url when you enter text then shift-middle click GO to open in a new tab.
• bug 753272 bustage fix: make package fails due to bug 749018.
• Lightning Integration /Support:
  • bug 731264 Support with multiple toolboxes in MailNews due to Lighting Calendar and Task Tabs.
  • bug 751217 In SeaMonkey, the Delete button in the Lightning Task Actions Toolbar doesn't have an icon because it uses mail-toolbar.png.
  • bug 753683 Simplify SeaMonkey handling of Lightnings customizable toolbars, Lightning part.

In progress:

• bug 663343 The "List all Tabs" menu should visually identify which tabs are on-screen (rather than scrolled off) [Needs UI consensus].
• bug 751922 Asynchronously add favicons to back/forward and history menus [Needs UI consensus].
• bug 694786 Remove hardcoded icon paths from notification.xml [Waiting for Mac UI review].
• bug 751081 Fix typo from bug 595810 (chrome://global/skin/icons/question64.png should be chrome://global/skin/icons/question-64.png instead) [Branch patch only. Waiting for approval]

To Do:

• Port Thunderbird bug 360800 MDN confirmation dialog does not say which addresses the receipt will be sent to (can be multiple).

To Investigate:

• Spelling Preferences: Parse spellchecker dictionary names as BCP 47 language tags.

Other:

• Did some reviews and coding mentoring.
• Bug triage and Bug discussions.
• End user support and PR in newsgroups and Mozillazine.

Any other business?

• Geolocation
  • Geolocation now works out of the box. MoCo turned it on by default for all applications that build off mozilla-central.
  • For comm-beta all we need to do is (bug 494421) to add pref("geo.wifi.uri", "https://www.google.com/loc/json"); to browser-prefs.js. However we're not even sure we are legally allowed to ship with the URL in, we might need to actually put in a pref to disable that in newer builds.
  • No news to date. Callek will have to reach out to his MoCo legal contact again soonish.
• Test failures
  • qawanted, especially on Linux and MacOSX specific issues: reproducing and reporting would already help.
  • Serge says that on Linux and MacOSX, he just needs someone to actually run the tests and report what they see (screen, console, etc). For example, there is a Mac test about Ctrl+W not working. This should be so trivial.
  • tonymec suggests that any enthusiastic user, even non-technical, should be able to do some testing (litmus?) and not be scared by technical language and such.
  • IanN suggests reaching out to the user community using the newsgroups and forums.
  • Serge to do a write up and send it to Ratty to propagate to the community.
    • Ratty is still waiting for Serge.