Thunderbird/StatusMeetings/2008-09-16

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Thunderbird Meeting Details

• Tuesday, Sept 16, 16:30 UTC (9:30am Pacific, 12:30pm Eastern)
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Agenda

• Who's taking minutes?

Action Items

Open

• rebron: file a bug on getting an announcements feed going on (reassigned from davida)
• everyone: look for delight bugs for the next release, put [delight] in status whiteboard
• davida: reschedule meeting, to Wednesdays? - calendar folk will be on future status calls

Thunderbird:Thunderbird 3.0b1

• String freeze TODAY
  • Thunderbird has L10N builds
  • Thunderbird doesn't have L10n dashboard - gozer currently setting this up
  • Account Configuration bug 422814
    • No UI ready to land (?)
  • Inline Edit Card dialog
    • All expected strings for B1 landed.
  • Improved Message Reader View
    • TBD?
  • Password Manager
    • Won't make release, but will try and get some backend changes complete anyway.
• go for string freeze?
• Freeze of strings only in mail/ (and editor/ui?)
  • L10n schedule may need to be flexible depending on core string changes.

• One week to code freeze for 3.0b1 (23rd September)
• Release Document has been updated/extended with many more steps
  • 3.0b1 Tracking Document
• Test day after string but prior to code freeze to check new features
  • items to test:
    • inline edit card (with stars)
    • message view redesign
    • Mac OS X address book integration
    • ?
  • how to test and report?

• Standard8 is the release driver
• wsmwk is the QA lead of Beta 1

Blockers / Wanted Bugs

• Blockers/Wanted:
  • TB 3.0b1 - blocking: 21
    • Better Faster IMAP bug 436615 (emre, et al)
      • needs 1-2 more iterations, close to landing
    • Help applications locale bug 450038
      • have structure in place, content next
  • TB 3.0b1 - wanted: 15
• Proposed Blockers: 2

• Fixed:
  • blocking-thunderbird3.0b1+: 10
  • TB 3.0b1 - blocking: 13
  • TB 3.0b1 - wanted: 9

Thunderbird 3

Main Bugs Progress

• Account Configuration bug 422814 (davida)
  • Backend changes have been checked in
  • beta 1 discussion: concern about this making b1 given the work to be done, lack of usage to date, possible patch collisions
  • beta 1 idea: bring it in as experimental via pref, so ship 2 account configs
• Password Manager bug 239131 (standard8)
  • LDAP patch waiting review (completes ldap changes) and update
  • Starting to look at rest of changes, i.e. smtp
• Inline card dialog bug 450724 (standard8)
  1. Inline Edit Card dialog now avaliable via clicking and using menu option.
  2. Star UI: prototyped, need to do proper version, know what the UI wants to be, may be interative.
• Improved Message Reader View bug 449691 (dmose)
  • Second patch posted for ui-review
• Toolkit autocomplete migration bug 360648
  • Waiting on one ui-review from Beltzner mconnor
  • LDAP code needs doing - current proposed version seems to regress the SSL error on shutdown, needs the LDAP xpcom interface (between AB & LDAP c-sdk) reworking.
• Gloda bug 450494 (asuth)
  • Review of first big 'drop' ongoing.
  • Investigating performance issues that would seem to be related to cycle collection.
  • Need to revamp indexing to work with Emre's auto-offline-sync. This primarily means letting the sync be responsible for getting message bodies, for gloda to more actively ensure things that should be indexed are indexed, and also be more gentle about it (adding info to the headers where appropriate.)
  • davida has proposed exposing gloda's full-text search support via the quick-search interface's "body text" support. AI:asuth:log the bug (and work the bug).

Roundtable

Status Updates

nth10sd

• Found a bad blocker - bug 454549
• Gave a speedgeek on the Mozilla community at Open Everything in Singapore.

asuth

• gloda development
  • Investigated spidermonkey threading to understand ramifications of moving gloda indexer to its own thread. The js concurrency turns out not to be a huge problem, it's just the general lack of thread-safety in mailnews and the high costs of proxying combined with a frequent need to proxy.
  • Investgiated sqlite threading ramifications with regard to async and concurrent access by main/async threads.
  • Now uses asynchronous storage functionality for all post-init db writes. Resumed using transactions under async mode to boot.
  • Should no longer crash at shut down, generally cleans up after itself.
  • Index per-message subjects now too.
  • Index attachment names, ignoring bogus attachments. (Attachments whose names are "Part 1.*".)
• gloda-related debugging
  • found/fixed crasher in mozStorage async
  • trying to assist in debugging by using chronicle-recorder (roc's valgrind based super-logger/debugger) against unit tests. Made a minor (but annoying to track down) bugfix to chronicle-query, and various bugfixes/enhancements to my chroniquery python binding/tool.