Thunderbird/StatusMeetings/2009-06-23

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Thunderbird Meeting Details :

• Tuesday, June 23th, 16:30 UTC (9:30am Pacific, 12:30pm Eastern)
• How to dial-in

Agenda

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

Action Items

Open

• Autoconfig process - work in progress

Thunderbird 3 Beta 3

• Planned Freeze Dates ( All dates use time of 23:59 PST )
  • Slushy String freeze date: TBD
  • Slushy Code Freeze date: TBD
  • Firm String / Code freeze date: TBD
  • l10n-mozilla-1.9.1 freeze date: TBD
  • Target Build Ship date: TBD
• dmose is release driver
• gozer is build engineer

• Search (bug 474701) - folder display patch landed
  • reviews to asuth, submodule changes under discussion
  • devs should get mozmill installed and test harness running

• Beta 3 stated as the release for all work with serious downstream work impact (ui, backend, l10n, etc). Anything that isn't like that should be pushed out into Beta 4.

• Blockers/Wanted
  • TB 3.0b3 - blocking 36 (-3)
  • TB 3.0b3 - wanted 26 (-2)
  • b3ux 12 (-1)
• Proposed Blocking (all milestones)
  • Proposed Blockers (all): 40 (+1)
• Fixed:
  • TB 3.0b3 - blocking 134 (+9)
  • TB 3.0b3 - wanted 43 (+6)

Thunderbird 3 Beta 4

• Release Driver: Standard8
• Build Engineer: gozer

• Blockers/Wanted
  • TB 3.0b4 - blocking 38 (+5)
  • TB 3.0b4 - wanted 3 (+2)
  • b3ux TBD
• Proposed Blocking (all milestones)
  • Proposed Blockers (all): 40 (+1)
• Fixed:
  • TB 3.0b4 - blocking 0
  • TB 3.0b4 - wanted 0

• Not much to say on Beta 4 until B3 is sorted out.

Thunderbird 3

• Thunderbird:Thunderbird3:DevRoadmap

• Blockers
  • blocking-thunderbird3+ 146 (+5)
  • TB 3 Needs: 9 (+3)
• Proposed Blocking
  • Proposed Blockers (all): 40 (+6)

• 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

• Had quite a successful buday as new comers came and did a Great Job.
• We are approaching the 2k barrier of UNCO bugs
• Need a better idea of TB3 to schedule the litmus effort

Roundtable

• Would like to point out that Valgrind seems to be an excellent tool to detect memory leaks and other stuff, on Linux / Mac. -nth10sd
  • Mac support was just added last month.
  • Can QA make use of this to find bad stuff?

Status Updates

nth10sd

• Out from next week for a fortnight.
• Pinged people on patchlove for updated patches - 2-3 responded, some positive.
• patchlove has <=7 more bugs with patches that are non-obsolete.
• Will look through year-long pending reviews to see if any are bit-rotted.
  • Should finish by this week.
• qawanted - bug 431250
• patchlove - bug 119630, bug 224392 amongst others.

Standard8

• Reviews & Driving
• Keep hitting & filing js assertions
  • So far filed bug 497355 and bug 499661
• xpcshell-test leaks
  • Landed the gloda shutdown tidy up.
  • Worked with David Bienvenu, managed to reduce the reported leaks by a significant amount. Most leaks probably test case issues or not-frequently-hit real leaks.
  • bug 498147 tracks the remaining leaks.
• Send In Background
  • Made progress on simplifying the send listeners so that we can have send/copy failure management without modal dialogs affecting us.
  • bug 499275 Dropped some redundant code found whilst trying to simplify the listeners.

Tsk

• Did some progress on runtest.py thanks to bwitton
• Status quo for now on the ISP list
• On vacation in the upcoming week.

bwinton

Last week:

• Closed bug 45715, bug 490105, and bug 496440.
• Patches up for review for bug 498519, and bug 495113.
• Got mozmill up and running, with Tsk's help.
• Helped Tsk with some Python stuff.

This week:

• Look into tb3-blockers bug 490141 and bug 499265.
• Look into bug 248681 and bug 498448.
• Fix existing patches as per reviewers' suggestions.