Thunderbird/StatusMeetings/2020-02-04

Thunderbird notes 2020-02-04 NOON PT (Pacific). For meeting time, previous notes and call-in details see https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird/StatusMeetings

Attendees

mkmelin, pmorris, Khushil, rob, Paenglab,

Current Release Critical Issues

• The tree: https://treeherder.mozilla.org/#/jobs?repo=comm-central
  • Perma-red/orange: https://mzl.la/2gS72WO
  • Disabled tests: https://mzl.la/2vZEjFe
  • Temp fixes: https://mzl.la/2iwY3dH

Releases

Thunderbird Release Schedule:

• • Ics (use in lightning): https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ical/jgarvd0cmlt3599e7gthhk01a8%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics
  • Web: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/embed?src=jgarvd0cmlt3599e7gthhk01a8%40group.calendar.google.com

• Past
  • TB 68.4.2 (2020-01-24)
  • TB 73 beta 1 (2020-01-31)

• Upcoming - https://wiki.mozilla.org/RapidRelease/Calendar#Future_branch_dates
  • Branching: next branch to TB 75: 2020-02-10
  • TB 74 beta1 (next week)

Round Table

Geoff (not attending, 9 AM in NZ)

• Landed:
  • bug 1574183 - At start-up, check for newer versions of extensions disabled by application update
  • bug 1610457 - Add junk and junkScore properties to message objects that are returned from APIs
  • bug 1609885 - Port bug 1609271 to Thunderbird: Stop using ChromeUtils.import(..., null)
  • bug 1610207 - Record Today Pane width whenever it changes
  • bug 1604371 - Fix browser_cloudfile.js in artifact builds by registering a fake provider
  • Port bug 1475043 - Allow "" as shortcut in commands.update
  • bug 1612480 - Stop expanding mailing lists when passed to the compose.begin* API functions
  • bug 1532528 - Add an API event that can block message sending from the compose window
  • bug 1610400 - Fail gracefully when formatting a date with a timezone unknown to Services.intl

• In progress:
  • bug 1612369 - Compfields2Recipients leaves old entries intact
  • bug 1590121 - API to interact with the message being drafted in a compose window
  • Refactoring WebExtension tests
  • Porting nsIAbManager and co. to javascript and pruning associated APIs
  • Address book new API planning

mkmelin

• went to FOSDEM
• implemented OAuth2 authentication for POP3 accounts
• converting xul:groupbox
• created Thunderbird release calendar - see above

pmorris

• Landing soon:
  • bug 1608610 - Integrate Calendar into Thunderbird (actual integration step, non-meta)
  • bug 1599212 - Remove or otherwise de-overlay the XUL overlay files related to seamonkey/suite
  • bug 1612168 - Use messenger icon files instead of duplicated calendar icon files

• In review:
  • bug 1612166 - Stop shipping all the calendar skin files on all platforms
  • bug 580896 - Mozilla sends invalid calendar sometime: event can contain both DTEND and DUR properties simultaneously.
  • bug 1546606 - Refactor caldav request handling

• In process:
  • bug 1612175 - Refactor calendar data migration code
  • bug 1592987 - Plan calendar UI for integration into Thunderbird
  • bug 1493008 - [meta] Integrate Calendar into Thunderbird
  • bug 1583595 - A dialog to handle opening .ics files

• In the queue:
  • bug 1612190 - Remove MOZ_CALENDAR build config flag
  • bug 1612198 - Remove NO_COMPONENTS_MANIFEST build variable
  • bug 1612170 - Make the calExtract module work with non-en-US locales
  • bug 1599212 - Remove or otherwise de-overlay the XUL overlay files related to seamonkey/suite
  • bug 357480 - [meta] Opening or adding .ics files to calendar by double click
  • bug 306495 - autodetect remote calendar type so user doesn't need to pick (with DNS or .well-known

wsmwk

• • firming up release scheduling with rest of release team

Paenglab

• Landed:
  • bug 1610474 - Make the editable menulist on Windows Classic prettier and don't hide the dropmarker when editable menulist is disabled.
  • bug 1610739 - Port bug 1592725: Enable async live stacks in Nightly and DevEdition.
  • bug 1610927 - Fix the new compose header appearance with the default dark theme and some style tweaks.
  • bug 1610746 - Fix XML parsing error in "Insert Charachters and Symbols" dialog.
  • bug 1611501 - Port bug 1607575: Change consumers of XUL ordinal attribute to use the -moz-box-ordinal-group style instead.
  • bug 1611636 - Make the attachmentItem inline-level in the message pane attachment list.
  • bug 1610434 - Windows 7: Hide the titlebar-placeholder when drawInTitletbar and non-autohide menu bar.
  • bug 1612182 - Style the otr-button also for dark themes.
  • bug 1611612 - Fix the thread pane column picker tooltip and add the column picker tooltip to the folder pane and address book.
  • bug 1612614 - Fix on Mac HiDPI the person icon in mailing lists.

rjl

• Landed:
  • bug 1574409 - Reduce code duplication in sccache configuration between Firefox and Thunderbird
  • bug 1610361 - Remove references to comm-esr60 from Taskcluster configs
  • bug 1610863 - Use rust-size toolchain when building Thunderbird in CI
  • bug 1611014 - mach taskgraph fails with schema validation error when run with --root option from commandline
  • bug 1611212 - Port bug 1605275 - Use worker aliases for scriptworkers
  • bug 1611256 - Enable gecko-cron for comm-beta and comm-esr68

• In progress:
  • bug 1410512 - Add support for getting nightly, beta and release partials for Thunderbird.
  • bug 1518166 - Build and distribute the libotr, libgpg-error and libgcrypt libraries
  • bug 1611966 - Port bug 1605188: Update Thunderbird CI to Rust 1.40

aleca (not attending, fighting a flu)

• Landed:
  • bug 1602372 - Trim recipient area keyboard focus ring (avoid unlimited recipient tab stops)
  • bug 1609958 - Cursor not visible upon first edit of recipient pill
  • bug 1609895 - Slightly longer recipient address pushes recipients area UI elements out of screen
  • bug 1609901 - Space in recipient's originalInput hard to remove with Backspace as it's falsy - polish trimming
  • bug 1607526 - Don't show the To: field if the Newsgroup or Follow-up fields are in use

• In progress:
  • bug 1589005 - implement account hub for a centralized way to set up mail, calendar, filelink, online addressbook, and potentially other services
  • bug 1609977 - Recipient pill context: Rename "Delete" menu to "Remove recipient" / "Remove N recipients"
  • bug 1611793 - Add Cc/Bcc addressing field should be reported to screen reader as button
  • bug 1583724 - port [Bug 1451992 - Migrate the XUL of Preferences subdialogs to Fluent] to Thunderbird

• Other:
  • Updated Website Footer links
  • Create Careers page
  • Changed references from Mozilla Foundation to MZLA Corporation
  • FOSDEM presentation mockups

Khushil

• Landed:

• • bug 1226362 - Use HTML Drag and Drop API in Thunderbird, get rid of nsDragAndDrop.js

• In Progress:

• • bug 1610445 - make account manager live in a tab (about:accountmanager)
  • bug 1590036 - Show users who get a fresh profile instead of reusing the previous default a first run UI
  • bug 1562313 - convert thunderbird javascript components over to use static registration (like bug 1524688)

• In Queue:

• • bug 437711 - Use new Drag'n'Drop API in Calendar
  • bug 1494588 - Drag&drop of multiple attachments creates duplicates
  • bug 1611758 - OSX perma fail on Thunderbird - toolkit/components/telemetry/tests/unit/test_TelemetryController.js | xpcshell return code: 0

Question Time

Better way to do release notes?