Thunderbird/StatusMeetings/2009-02-17

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Thunderbird Meeting Details :

• Tuesday, Feb 17th, 17:30 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

• davida to look at status meeting agenda due to the drivers meeting that follows later in the morning.

Thunderbird 3 Beta 2

• clarkbw is release driver
• gozer is build engineer
• Firm code/string freeze from: Tuesday 17th February 23:59 PST TODAY
• l10n-mozilla-1.9.1 freeze from: Thursday 19th February 23:59 PST
• Testday: Friday 20th February

• Blockers/Wanted
  • TB 3.0b2 - blocking: 10 (-19)
  • TB 3 Needs 2 (-2)
  • TB 3.0b2 - wanted: 36 (-3)
• Proposed Blocking
  • Proposed Blockers (b? + milestone): 4 (-1)
• Fixed:
  • TB 3.0b2 - blocking: 80 (+12)
  • TB 3.0b2 - wanted: 31 (+2)

Thunderbird 3

• Thunderbird:Thunderbird3:DevRoadmap
• Blockers
  • blocking-thunderbird3+ 116 (-1)
• Proposed Blocking
  • Proposed Blockers (all): 16 (-9)

QA Updates

• We held a bugday last thursday, results were lower than the week before.
• We are holding a Test day this friday.
• Hope some UI for the activity manager shows up by then.
• Too many FIXED bugs have in-testsuite? flag - no change since 2009-01-13

Roundtable

Status Updates

davida

• activity mgr bugs
• driving
• getting windows vm happy again
• started biking to work again

nth10sd

• IMAP hang patch testing in bug 476960 with bienvenu.
• Collaborating with gozer in bug 475972 - script to auto-get weekly fixed buglists.
• Guided a new Thunderbird student developer to getting his first TB accessibility patch in bug 449560 - now waiting for dmose review.
• Some word on JS front - testing new heavyweight JS function patch in bug 452498 by Brendan Eich, this JIT improvement should make it to Firefox 3.1 Beta 3, and eventually into Thunderbird.
• QA stuff, bugdays, etc.

Standard8

Non-goal activities:

• Attended a birth
• Reviews
• Pottered about on a few bugs
  • bug 478571 Js warning fix related to move/copy in activity manager

Two week goals (start of week 2):

• Recover and get used to having 2 children.
• Implement send in background bug 440794
  • Delayed to beta 3, but will think about it after recovering.
• Fix up the What's New page loading so that it can load css properly bug 466527
  • Proposed a fix, needs review/comment from dmose.

bienvenu

• Reviews and Driving
• Helped with some activity manager and autosync patches
• Fixed bug 461052 don't let msg hdr buttons keep focus after applying command
• Fixed problem parsing v-card, bug 473924
• Landed fix for handling of imap folders with non-alphanumeric chars like # in name, bug 115091
• Fixed bug 465939, mark folder read not clearing indications on collapsed threads
• Fixed bug 478113, getcellvalue leaks strings.

• Next week
  • Finish work on changing IMAP autosync to use STATUS to figure out if a folder has new messages instead of SELECT and full header+flag sync.
  • Deal with whatever b2 blockers arise.
  • Implement SelectMsgsFromHdrs function for davida.
  • Time permitting, pick up autoconfig work again.

gozer

• Build
  • We have pooled builders on Linux
    • Linux non-unittest builders are in a pool
  • Landed jemalloc work by Standard8 bug 427627
  • Landed the big chunk of bug 452866 - Teach Socorro/crash-stats about comm-central
    • Coming to mozilla-1.9.1 after some baking
    • Will give us much nicer source links in crash reports
  • Buildbot still having too many slave dropouts
    • new error condition of the week: SlaveBuilder._ackFailed: SlaveBuilder.sendUpdate

• Web
  • SSL is available for most *.mozillamessaging.com sites
    • https://www.mozillamessaging.com/
  • Improved monitoring and trending in preparation for upcoming kinkora launch

• Infrastructure
  • YVR office still has Internet connectivity issues [ISP says mid-month resolution, looks much better now]
  • YVR phones should send/recieve sound waves
  • AUS server is up and live bug 477275
    • Linux/Win32 trunk only
    • Automated process, still manually invoked
    • complete and partial updates (going 7 days back)
    • SSL
    • Landed for nightly trunk builds last night bug 478769

wsmwk

• crash-stats issues
• advising ludo
• triage more threading, crash and profile bugs
• close ~35 bugs
• comment on closemes

rebron

• Website work, still on target to launch next week. Kinkora branch to merge on to the trunk on Friday.
• pr/marketing Beta 2 work.

Tsk

• Got access to security-core bugs
• Had proper access to Litmus report emails
• Had a look at litmus - still need more investigation
• Looking into QMO.