Thunderbird/StatusMeetings/2009-12-22

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Thunderbird Meeting Details :

• Tuesday, December 22nd, 17:30 UTC (9:30am Pacific, 12:30pm Eastern)
• How to dial-in

Agenda

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

Action Items

Open

• Planning for a dry-run security firedrill build
  • Standard8: Set up draft checklist for firedrill actions

Thunderbird 3.1 (Lanikai)

• The schedule is still in a bit of flux, but mostly right. Feedback requested.
• Lanikai builds now set up (with new trunk builds).

• 3.1 Blocker Chart

• Blockers
  • blocking-thunderbird3.1+ (includes tb31needs): 51 (0)
• Proposed Blocking
  • blocking-thunderbird3.1?: 58 (+10)

• Fixed Alpha 1
  • TB 3.1a1 blocking: 4 (+3)

Thunderbird 3.1a1

Schedule

• String/code freeze date: 2010-01-12 (Tuesday)
• Branch Gecko, cut hackbranch, land async changes: 2010-01-13 (Wednesday)
• l10n-mozilla-1.9.2 freeze date: 2010-01-18 (Monday)
• Build/relbranch date: 2010-01-19 (Tuesday)
• Ship date: 2010-02-03 (Wednesday)

Thunderbird 3.0.x Developer Update

• 3.0.1
  • Aiming to base off of Gecko 1.9.1.7
  • Schedule Highlights:
  • Code Freeze: January 8, 2010, 11:59pm
  • Beta Period: January 13
  • Estimated Release Date: January 20

• 3.0.x Release checklist now written.

• Tinderbox has links to:
  • Process for getting bugs into 3.0.x
  • Tracking and Status page

• Blocking Nominations: 15 (-1)
• Blockers (needed): 9 (+8)
• Blocking 3.0.1: 22 (+10)
• Of which:
  • waiting branch patch (or approval flag setting): 17 (+6)

• Fixed 3.0.1: 31 (+9)
  • Of which need verification: 31 (+9)

QA Updates

• Had a good bugday in terms of closing bugs.
• Over the last week 50% of the bugs resolved where duplicates
• 260 new bugs, most are 3.0 related.
• Having a bugday this week

status	bug	summary	# of crash
Checked in	bug 505717	EscapeFromSpaceLine(nsIOutputStream*, char*, char const*)	1139
Unassigned [tb30xwants]	bug 519962	nsPrefBranch::freeObserverList() | nsPrefBranch::Observe(nsISupports*, char const*, unsigned short const*)	985
Unassigned	bug 505016	nsXPCWrappedJS::QueryInterface(nsID const&, void**)	675
Funambol contacted.		fnblComponent.dll@0xdb22	666
Unassigned	bug 536308	arena_dalloc | free | sqlite3_free | pcache1TruncateUnsafe	582

Notes: 1) 7 days of crashes 2) Top 5 comprise only 19% of all crashes, Top 10 is 29%

Marketing Updates

• Press Watch: Continued Thunderbird 3 mentions How to set up a new computer, Thunderbird 3.1 mentions happening
• Working on PR and GS contracts
• Targeting Tb3 Release Party for All Hands.
  • Distributed parties targetted for late January or after. Folks interested in throwing their own should contact rebron@mozillamessaging.com.

IT update

• comm-1.9.2 unittest and bloat builders are up
• 5 more Win2k3 build machines in staging
• Lightning 1.0b1rc1
• Lots of buildbot cleanup and loving
• MacOSX 10.5 comm-central nightly builds are back
• Standard8 mentioned bloat builders are crashing; if anyone's interested in working on the problem, please have a look and/or contact Standard8

Documentation

Done

• Doc day: no contributors :(
• new SUMOMO articles / sumomo posting problems
• Get Satisfaction: sort out account, review questions to determine article topics

TODO / In Progress

• Mission control / autoconfig (also new issue with documenting prefs)
• finalize / blog Content Tab docs
• support doc locations (521665)

Support

Abbreviated report since I am sick, full report on December 29, 2009

1. Thunderbird 3.0 Top Support Issues
   1. Kaspersky DLL and KPT issue causes blank windows after upgrade from TB 2 to 3 - still awaiting exact Kaspersky executable version and exact Kaspersky DB version in order to notify users on GS
   2. Add-Ons: Where is Lightning? - beta is out, congrats to Lightning team
   3. Compact Header
   4. Untick use name and password
   5. 4GB Gmail issue - Bienvenu working on fix for Thunderbird 3.1
   6. duplicate folders after TB2 to TB3 upgrade
   7. opening IMAP text attachments is broken
   8. sometimes have to delete SMTP password after upgrading from TB 2.0 to 3.0 in order to send email
   9. Smart Folders UI is not intuitive
2. SUMO for MoMo aka SuMoMo
   1. theming almost done, last 10%, in this case the SUMO search, is the hardest, pushing for before Christmas
   2. since SuMoMo uses SSL, waiting for GS to give us GS widget code that works with SSL, expecting a fix before Christmas (not rocket science since since all the GS widgets except the Satisfaction Search widget that we are using allow SSL)
   3. JenZed is going to help with SuMoMo content, thanks Jen!
3. Key Support stats from the following graphic:
   1. asked SUMO folks for help
   2. as well blog post asking for help
   3. approximately 100/ day (707/7 new topics still 3.5x higher than week of Dec 1, # of visitors 15X higher than Dec 1: 29000 compared to 2000, down from 35000 last week)
   4. total new topics:707 total replies from employees and contributors: 297 up from 126 last week, thanks everybody! (Ruby Code)
      1. date:20091215 #new support topics:119 resolved 21
      2. date:20091216 #new support topics:117 resolved 18
      3. date:20091217 #new support topics:107 resolved 23
      4. date:20091218 #new support topics:83 resolved 28
      5. date:20091219 #new support topics:57 resolved 10
      6. date:20091220 #new support topics:66 resolved 17
      7. date:20091221 #new support topics:75 resolved 29

Roundtable

Status Updates

dmose

Last week

• draft / announce 3.1 plans
• propose testing policy change
• code-review & driving work
• thunderbird support work

This week

• On vacation starting 12/23/2009, returning 1/4/2010

Standard8

• Starting to catch up on reviews
• Approval & Blocking triage on 3.0.1.
• Release Checklists

wsmwk

• triage incoming 3.x bugs via whine reports focusing on major, critical, crash
• cleanup autocomplete bugs, "resurrecting" regression bug 497722 Compose Address auto-complete ... not ordering based on frequency

crit bugs filed:

• bug 535028 [@ szone_free | free | ConvertUsingEncoderAndDecoder(char const*, int, nsIUnicodeEncoder*, nsIUnicodeDecoder*, char**, int*)]
• bug 535029 startup [@ nsPrefBranch::freeObserverList() | nsPrefBranch::Observe(nsISupports*, char const*, unsigned short const*)]
• bug 535056 [@ mozHunspell::SetDictionary(unsigned short const*)]
• bug 535061 crash [@ Hunspell::spell(char const*, int*, char**)]
• bug 535070 hang sending large attachment
• bug 536312 startup [@ fts3GetVarint]
• bug 536310 closing thunderbird [@ arena_dalloc_small | arena_dalloc | free | sqlite3_free | sqlite3VdbeDelete]
• bug 536308 [@ arena_dalloc_small | arena_dalloc | free | sqlite3_free | pcache1TruncateUnsafe] and [@ pcache1TruncateUnsafe ]

KaiRo

• Buildbot: patches could land, so SeaMonkey can run vanilla buildbotcustom now
• Switched comm-1.9.1 to pull chatzilla from hg and use "frozen" extensions from named COMM_1_9_1_BRANCHes

rebron

Done:

• Q1 Plan and proposal w/ PR agency completed.
• Web site updates for Tb3 typos/errors and Lightning.
• Support issues through GS and email.
• Wrapped up final invoices for various pr/design/web site vendors.

Next:

• GS contract extension.
• Snippet localization.
• Tb3.0.1/3.1 web site requirements.
• Vacation through January 3rd.

Tsk

• Tried to normailzed smtp issue for 3.0.1
• Organizing and participating to the weekly event

• On vacation next week.

bwinton

Last week:

• Check in bug 526650, bug 533361, bug 530972, and bug 518315.
• Review bug 522250, bug 505465, and bug 530721.
• Work on bug 525070 and bug 525070.
• Comment on bug 534604.
• Create bug 534994.
• Give Kohei access to my instance of ISPDB for sanity checking.
• Edit some docs on DevMo.
• Answer some questions on GetSat.

Next week:

• Bug people for reviews.
• Review my patches so I don't look like a hypocrite.
• Work on bug 525070, bug 533680, and the netbook extensions.
• Book tickets for the All-Hands.

sgautherie

• Fixed MailNews Core bugs:
  • bug 484799 make {package,installer} should rebase on windows