SeaMonkey/Bug events/20120921

The SeaMonkey community will hold a bug event during the 2012 fall equinox weekend. The details (the agenda, and, once known, the results) are to be found below.

If this whole page is too long for you, please read at least the table of contents. Maybe you'll be interested in one particular section.

When?

From Friday 21 to Sunday 23 September 2012. We're setting no fixed times: come as soon as you can (e.g., after getting home from work and kissing your best half and kids) and remain as late as you want to (e.g. until you're called to the dining-room or to bathe, *** and sleep).

Where?

Channel #bugday on the Mozilla IRC server. If you're using ChatZilla, just click the link. Or for any chat client:

1. Connect to irc.mozilla.org on port 6667 (without SSL) or on port 6697 (with SSL).
2. (Optional) IDENTIFY yourself to NickServ with a password. (See /msg NickServ help for details)
3. /join #bugday

Before you start

• Make sure you have a supported computer and operating system.
• Make sure you have a Bugzilla account (and if you don't yet have one, get one here).
• Install the latest SeaMonkey nightly but not in the same directory as your usual "release" version of SeaMonkey (unless, of course, it is already "your usual SeaMonkey" or you want to make it such; but beware that such a practice is "not recommended for most users". How to install it varies depending on your OS.
• Notes:
  • "Mac" builds are "Universal builds" supporting both 32- and 64-bit Mac computers with Intel processors running Mac OS X 10.5 or later. OS X 10.4 is not supported anymore, and neither are PowerPC computers.
  • There are separate "Linux" builds for 32-bit (i686) and 64-bit (x86_64) systems. 32-bit builds can run on 64-bit systems (if you have the necessary 32-bit libraries installed) but not vice-versa. The 64-bit builds are still regarded as "experimental" because there are still few testers using them: a chicken-and-egg problem. If you have a 64-bit Linux system, maybe you can help us by testing the x86_64 Linux build.
  • For Windows, only 32-bit builds are available at this time. They ought to run correctly on both 32- and 64-bit Windows computers.
  • A full list of hardware and software requirements for Windows, Linux and Mac can be found here.
• Start your new SeaMonkey as follows (at a command-line [shell] prompt, after cd to the directory containing the executable):

  ./seamonkey -no-remote -ProfileManager

  The first time, create a new profile then use it. Later on, you can just reuse that same profile.

What?

Add [2012 Fall Equinox] to the Whiteboard of any bug handled during the event, even if no other change is made to it.

Which bugs to focus on

This table tells you how many bugs are open but not yet ASSIGNED for each SeaMonkey component. Each of the numbers in the table is a link to a list of bugs. This time we'll concentrate on the Components which have the most open bugs (more than 100 to more than 700). They are listed below in decreasing order ("more than 700 at top, down to "just over 100" at bottom). The numbers are as of 2012-08-07 16:00 UTC:

•  733 MailNews:Message Display
•  476 UI Design
•  228 Bookmarks & History
•  165 Preferences
•  141 Composer
•  127 General
• 1870 All of the above

What to do with them

Now what shall we do with all these bugs?

Triage

• Is the bug in the right Component? or even in the right Product? Bugs which affect SeaMonkey can belong in any of the following Products (clicking each link will give you a list of Components, explaining briefly what each of them is for). Most SeaMonkey bugs go in the Products near the top of this list:
  • SeaMonkey (anything specific to SeaMonkey, and all SeaMonkey frontend bugs other than those for the Addons Manager)
  • MailNews Core (backend bugs affecting both SeaMonkey and Thunderbird)
  • Toolkit (This includes, among others, all Addon Manager bugs, the bugs for the Firefox-style Download Manager but not the Jökulsárlón one, Password Manager bugs, etc.)
  • Core (backend bugs affecting all three of Firefox, Thunderbird and SeaMonkey, especially about HTML page layout)
  • Plugins (i.e. Acrobat, Flash, Java, and the like)
  • Other Applications (among others, ChatZilla, DOM Inspector and Venkman, all three of which are included in all official versions of SeaMonkey)
  • Mozilla Localizations (bugs about menus & messages in other languages than en-US)
  • NSS and NSPR (these two change very little, only very few new bugs belong in them)
• Is the bug still found in current SeaMonkey versions (latest release, latest beta, latest Aurora nightly, latest comm-central-trunk nightly)? If you can't decide, and neither can anyone present, add a comment to the bug asking the reporter, and in that case also add [CLOSEME 2012-11-01 INCO] or [CLOSEME 2012-11-01 WFM] to the Whiteboard.
• Is the bug a valid bug? If the behaviour it describes is intentional, then the bug is INVALID. If the problem is not a Mozilla problem (if the fault is in an extension, or in the code for some plugin, etc.) the bug is also INVALID but in this case the problem should be reported to the responsible party (the extension author, the plugin makers, etc.)
• Is the bug a real bug or enhancement request, but one not worth fixing? Only an owner or peer of the component where the bug is found can decide to resolve it WONTFIX. Check the SeaMonkey project areas page and/or the Mozilla module owners list to see who is in charge. Hopefully some of them will take part in the event so you can ping them.

Bug fixing

• Finally, do you think you can fix the bug? Don't panic!. Some of them, including very easy one-liners, will have [good first bug] in the Whiteboard, usually with [language= (meaning the programming language) and [mentor= (with the IRC nick of someone to ask help from); and even if you aren't yet capable of fixing any single bug, all the above will still need to be done.
  • If you think you can fix some particular bugs, "take" them by clicking <take> on the Assigned to: line in the bug header, and also set the bug status to ASSIGNED at the very bottom.
  • Don't try to tackle too many of them at one time: By assigning a bug to yourself, you are committing yourself to work on it, and you are also telling other people that the bug is taken. Better take no more than you can handle, fix them, and possibly come later for additional bugs after you finish those you had taken.
  • See also:
    • The Life Cycle of a Patch
    • Getting comm-central source code using Mercurial
    • Getting mozilla-central with limited bandwidth
    • Mercurial bundles for Mozilla
    • Creating a patch that can be checked in
    • and other pages linked from there. Also don't forget to use hg help to get the Mercurial online help.

Resolving bugs

Here are the main Resolutions you will probably use. (There are others.)

• DUPLICATE — This bug is a duplicate of some other bug, whose bug number must be mentioned.
• INCOMPLETE — The steps to reproduce are either nonexistent or too vague to allow reproducing the bug, and the reporter hasn't replied to requests for further information.
• INVALID — This is either intended behaviour ("not a bug") or else it is a bug but not in Mozilla code ("not our bug")
• WORKSFORME — All attempts to reproduce the bug have failed; or the bug used to be found in earlier versions but it has disappeared from current versions, and we don't know what fixed it.
• FIXED — The bug has been fixed in trunk code, and we know exactly which patch fixed it.
• WONTFIX — Only an Owner or Peer for the relevant Module may set this Resolution, see below.

• Also, the VERIFIED status means that someone other than whoever set RESOLVED has checked that the Resolution is correct. For FIXED bugs, this means in principle that someone (not necessarily the same person) has verified that in recent builds, the bug has disappeared from all three of Windows, Linux and Mac, or at least from those of the three where the bug had been seen before.

Whiteboard entries

• As said earlier, please mark all bugs handled during this Event by adding [2012 Fall Equinox] to the Whiteboard. One of the entries below may be added in addition if it is not clear that the bug should be RESOLVED immediately.
  • DUPEME — you remember seeing a bug somewhere, of which this bug is a duplicate, but you can't find the other bug back.
  • [CLOSEME 2012-11-01 INCO] — bugs to be RESOLVED INCOMPLETE if the reporter doesn't answer.
  • [CLOSEME 2012-11-01 WFM] — bugs to be RESOLVED WORKSFORME unless someone can reproduce them (and say how, or at least say that it appears sporadically in such-and-such circumstances)
  • [CLOSEME INVA/WONT?] — bugs which might possibly be one of the following, but you aren't certain:
    • Intended behaviour (INVALID)
    • Not a Mozilla bug (INVALID)
    • Not worth fixing (WONTFIX)
    • Notes:
      • 1. As said earlier, only an owner or peer of the concerned module may set WONTFIX so you may want to bring such a bug to their attention. To find who they are, follow the following links for SeaMonkey in particular or for Mozilla code in general.
      • 2. Some developers have a "Bugzilla address of record" different from their listed email address. Make sure that you have JavaScript enabled (at least on bugzilla.mozilla.org), and use the Bugzilla autocomplete feature in the Cc field of the bug.

Tracking flags

Here we'll talk only about the "status-seamonkey-<something>" flags. These are on the right side of the bug page heading, lower than the Cc list. They are used to track in which versions of SeaMonkey the bug has been seen, and also on which branch it has been fixed. (RESOLVED FIXED means the bug is fixed on trunk, even if the fix hasn't yet been ported to the branches.)

• unaffected : the bug never occurred in this version.
• affected : the bug happens in the latest builds for this version.
• fixed : the bug has been fixed in this version.
• verified : someone has checked that the fix works for this version in all affected platforms.
• wontfix : the fix won't be ported to this version. In particular, anything involving string changes will never be landed in a branch other than by the sesquimestrial repository merge. Also, only no-risk fixes will be ported to the Beta branch and only stability & security fixes will be ported to the Release branch.
• --- (default): none of the above, or unknown, or unspecified.

Results

This section will be filled in after the results are in; probably on 24 or 25 September.

Where did those bugs end up?

This set of tables tell you where the bugs handled during this event ended up. Remember: before the event, they were (almost) all in the "SeaMonkey" product, and none (or hardly any) of them was either ASSIGNED or RESOLVED.

Each of the numbers in the table can be clicked to list all the bugs in question in the form of a Bugzilla bug search, and the tables will be updated if you refresh the page and more bugs have been triaged, assigned and/or fixed.

Good first bugs

Also, these ten bugs (eight if you disregard two WONTFIX) were found (or confirmed) to be "good first bugs" (but there are more).

Who did what?

This section is still far from complete.

As can already be seen:

• Px handled several times as many bugs as everyone else put together.
• Ratty gets silver, mostly but not exclusively for assists to Px.
• lenochod quietly went along, removing CLOSEME whiteboard entries for bugs which had just been resolved, mostly as WONTFIX.

These three showed real teamwork spirit. I nominate them for the next Friend of the Fish Tank award. — Tonymec 12:47, 30 September 2012 (PDT)

Click the column headings to sort. (The "Severity" column sorts in logical, not alphabetical, sequence.)

This is a big table; unfold it at your own risk.

Bug	Product :: Component	Stat. Res.	Sev.	IanN	Invisible Smiley	leno chod	mc smurf	Neil	Px	Ratty	rsx 11m	tony mec	Other
8648	SeaMonkey :: Bookmarks & History	NEW  ----	6 enh	no	no	no	no	no	yes	no	no	no
10198	SeaMonkey :: Bookmarks & History	RESO WORK	6 enh	no	no	no	no	no	yes	no	no	no
10488	SeaMonkey :: Bookmarks & History	NEW  ----	6 enh	no	no	no	no	no	yes	no	no	no
13012	SeaMonkey :: Bookmarks & History	RESO INCO	6 enh	no	no	yes	no	no	yes	yes	no	no
13013	SeaMonkey :: Bookmarks & History	NEW  ----	6 enh	no	no	no	no	no	yes	no	no	no
13818	SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display	NEW  ----	6 enh	no	no	no	no	no	no	no	no	yes
18152	SeaMonkey :: Bookmarks & History	NEW  ----	6 enh	no	no	no	no	no	yes	yes	no	no
19260	SeaMonkey :: Preferences	NEW  ----	6 enh	no	no	no	no	no	yes	no	no	no
21263	SeaMonkey :: Bookmarks & History	NEW  ----	3 nor	no	no	no	no	no	yes	no	no	no
24690	Core :: XUL	RESO WORK	3 nor	no	no	no	no	no	yes	no	no	no
24829	SeaMonkey :: Bookmarks & History	NEW  ----	6 enh	no	no	yes	no	no	yes	yes	no	no
26067	SeaMonkey :: Preferences	NEW  ----	3 nor	no	no	no	no	no	yes	no	no	no
32494	Core :: XUL	NEW  ----	3 nor	no	no	no	no	no	yes	no	no	no
33340	SeaMonkey :: Preferences	NEW  ----	6 enh	no	no	no	no	no	yes	no	no	no
33576	SeaMonkey :: Preferences	NEW  ----	3 nor	no	no	no	no	no	yes	yes	no	no
34059	SeaMonkey :: Bookmarks & History	NEW  ----	6 enh	no	no	no	no	no	yes	no	no	no
36828	SeaMonkey :: Bookmarks & History	RESO WONT	6 enh	no	no	yes	no	no	yes	yes	no	no
37139	SeaMonkey :: Preferences	RESO WONT	3 nor	yes	no	no	no	no	yes	no	no	no
38966	SeaMonkey :: Preferences	NEW  ----	6 enh	no	no	no	no	no	yes	no	no	no
39113	SeaMonkey :: Preferences	NEW  ----	6 enh	no	no	no	no	no	yes	no	no	no
41888	SeaMonkey :: Bookmarks & History	RESO WORK	6 enh	no	no	no	no	no	yes	no	no	no
42339	SeaMonkey :: Preferences	NEW  ----	6 enh	no	no	no	no	no	yes	no	no	no
44729	SeaMonkey :: Bookmarks & History	RESO WORK	4 min	no	no	no	no	no	yes	no	no	no
45700	Toolkit :: XUL Widgets	NEW  ----	6 enh	no	no	no	no	no	yes	no	no	no	BenB
50138	SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display	NEW  ----	5 tri	no	no	no	no	no	no	no	no	yes
50256	SeaMonkey :: Bookmarks & History	NEW  ----	5 tri	no	no	no	no	no	yes	no	no	no
51207	SeaMonkey :: Bookmarks & History	RESO WONT	6 enh	no	no	no	no	no	yes	yes	no	no
53694	SeaMonkey :: Bookmarks & History	RESO WONT	3 nor	no	no	yes	no	no	yes	yes	no	no
54813	SeaMonkey :: Bookmarks & History	RESO WONT	6 enh	no	no	no	no	no	yes	no	no	no
56418	SeaMonkey :: Bookmarks & History	NEW  ----	3 nor	no	no	no	no	no	yes	no	no	no
56765	SeaMonkey :: Bookmarks & History	RESO WONT	6 enh	no	no	no	no	no	yes	yes	no	no
59120	SeaMonkey :: Preferences	NEW  ----	6 enh	no	no	no	no	no	yes	no	no	no
59330	SeaMonkey :: Bookmarks & History	RESO INVA	6 enh	no	no	yes	no	no	yes	yes	no	no
59636	SeaMonkey :: Bookmarks & History	NEW  ----	3 nor	no	no	no	no	no	yes	no	no	no
64908	SeaMonkey :: Preferences	RESO WORK	3 nor	yes	yes	no	no	no	no	no	no	no
65121	SeaMonkey :: UI Design	NEW  ----	1 cri	no	no	no	no	yes	no	no	yes	yes
78625	SeaMonkey :: Bookmarks & History	NEW  ----	3 nor	no	no	no	no	no	yes	no	no	no
79682	SeaMonkey :: Preferences	NEW  ----	3 nor	no	no	no	no	no	yes	yes	no	no
84209	SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display	RESO INCO	3 nor	no	no	no	no	no	no	no	no	yes
86478	SeaMonkey :: Preferences	RESO INVA	3 nor	no	no	no	no	no	yes	no	no	no
90837	SeaMonkey :: Preferences	NEW  ----	3 nor	no	yes	no	no	no	yes	no	no	no
96717	SeaMonkey :: Preferences	RESO INVA	3 nor	no	no	no	no	no	yes	no	no	no
101319	Toolkit :: Places	NEW  ----	3 nor	no	no	no	no	no	yes	no	no	no
101715	Seamonkey :: UI Design	NEW  ----	1 cri	no	no	no	no	no	no	no	no	yes
111866	Toolkit :: Places	NEW  ----	3 nor	no	no	no	no	no	yes	no	no	no
114612	SeaMonkey :: Bookmarks & History	RESO WORK	3 nor	no	no	yes	no	no	yes	yes	no	no
114869	SeaMonkey :: Bookmarks & History	RESO INVA	3 nor	no	no	yes	no	no	yes	yes	no	no
118394	SeaMonkey :: Bookmarks & History	NEW  ----	3 nor	no	no	no	no	no	yes	no	no	no
121518	SeaMonkey :: Bookmarks & History	NEW  ----	3 nor	no	no	no	no	no	yes	no	no	no
127479	SeaMonkey :: Bookmarks & History	RESO WORK	2 maj	no	no	no	no	no	yes	no	no	no
137137	SeaMonkey :: Bookmarks & History	RESO INVA	3 nor	no	no	no	no	no	yes	yes	no	no
140443	SeaMonkey :: Preferences	RESO WONT	3 nor	no	no	yes	no	no	yes	yes	no	no
140742	SeaMonkey :: Bookmarks & History	RESO INVA	3 nor	no	no	yes	no	no	yes	yes	no	no
143527	SeaMonkey :: Preferences	NEW  ----	3 nor	no	no	no	no	no	yes	no	no	no
143735	SeaMonkey :: Preferences	NEW  ----	3 nor	no	no	no	no	no	yes	no	no	no
147564	Core :: Style System (CSS)	NEW  ----	2 maj	no	no	no	no	no	yes	no	no	no	dbaron, bz
148480	SeaMonkey :: Bookmarks & History	NEW  ----	3 nor	no	no	no	no	no	yes	no	no	no
148539	Core :: History: Global	NEW  ----	3 nor	no	no	no	no	no	yes	no	no	no
152298	SeaMonkey :: Preferences	NEW  ----	3 nor	no	no	no	no	no	yes	no	no	no
153138	SeaMonkey :: Preferences	RESO INVA	3 nor	no	no	no	no	no	yes	no	no	no
153489	SeaMonkey :: Bookmarks & History	RESO INCO	3 nor	no	no	no	no	no	yes	no	no	no
157152	SeaMonkey :: Bookmarks & History	RESO INVA	3 nor	no	no	no	no	no	yes	no	no	no
157667	SeaMonkey :: Preferences	RESO INVA	3 nor	no	no	no	no	no	yes	no	no	no
159249	SeaMonkey :: Preferences	NEW  ----	3 nor	no	no	no	no	no	yes	no	no	no
159364	SeaMonkey :: Preferences	RESO INVA	3 nor	no	yes	no	no	yes	yes	yes	no	no
159871	SeaMonkey :: Preferences	RESO WORK	3 nor	no	no	no	no	no	yes	no	no	no
160471	SeaMonkey :: Bookmarks & History	NEW  ----	3 nor	no	no	no	no	no	yes	no	no	no
160909	SeaMonkey :: Bookmarks & History	RESO INVA	3 nor	no	no	no	no	no	yes	no	no	no
162600	SeaMonkey :: Bookmarks & History	RESO INVA	2 maj	no	no	no	no	no	yes	no	no	no
177006	Core :: Event Handling	NEW  ----	3 nor	no	no	no	no	no	yes	no	no	no
193235	SeaMonkey :: Bookmarks & History	NEW  ----	3 nor	no	no	no	no	no	yes	yes	no	no
195985	SeaMonkey :: Bookmarks & History	NEW  ----	3 nor	no	no	no	no	no	yes	no	no	no
202204	SeaMonkey :: Bookmarks & History	NEW  ----	3 nor	no	no	no	no	no	yes	yes	no	no
202632	SeaMonkey :: Bookmarks & History	RESO INVA	3 nor	no	no	no	no	no	yes	no	no	no
204553	SeaMonkey :: UI Design	RESO FIXE	3 nor	no	no	no	no	yes	no	yes	no	yes
206987	SeaMonkey :: Bookmarks & History	RESO WORK	3 nor	no	no	no	no	no	yes	no	no	no
207814	SeaMonkey :: Bookmarks & History	RESO INVA	2 maj	no	no	no	no	no	yes	no	no	no
208333	SeaMonkey :: Bookmarks & History	RESO WORK	3 nor	no	no	no	no	no	yes	no	no	no
210262	SeaMonkey :: Bookmarks & History	RESO WORK	2 maj	no	no	no	no	no	yes	no	no	no
210438	SeaMonkey :: Bookmarks & History	RESO WORK	3 nor	no	no	no	no	no	yes	no	no	no
210797	SeaMonkey :: Bookmarks & History	RESO INVA	3 nor	no	no	no	no	no	yes	no	no	no
211516	SeaMonkey :: Bookmarks & History	RESO WORK	3 nor	no	no	no	no	no	yes	no	no	no
217041	SeaMonkey :: Bookmarks & History	NEW  ----	3 nor	no	no	no	no	no	yes	yes	no	no
219972	SeaMonkey :: Bookmarks & History	RESO WORK	3 nor	no	no	no	no	no	yes	no	no	no
220842	SeaMonkey :: Bookmarks & History	RESO INVA	3 nor	no	no	no	no	no	yes	no	no	no
223771	SeaMonkey :: Bookmarks & History	NEW  ----	3 nor	no	no	no	no	no	yes	no	no	no
232106	SeaMonkey :: Bookmarks & History	RESO INVA	3 nor	no	no	no	no	no	yes	no	no	no
232582	SeaMonkey :: Bookmarks & History	RESO INVA	3 nor	no	no	no	no	no	yes	no	no	no
233028	SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Account Configuration	RESO WORK	3 nor	no	no	no	no	no	no	yes	no	yes
376465	SeaMonkey :: Preferences	RESO WORK	2 maj	no	no	no	yes	no	no	no	no	no
716259	SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display	RESO INCO	2 maj	no	no	yes	yes	no	no	yes	no	no
756566	SeaMonkey :: Bookmarks & History	NEW  ----	2 maj	no	no	no	no	no	yes	no	no	no
793447	SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display	RESO DUPL 702165	1 cri	no	no	no	no	no	no	no	no	yes