Thunderbird/StatusMeetings/2010-01-05

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Thunderbird Meeting Details :

• Tuesday, January 5th, 17:30 UTC (9:30am Pacific, 12:30pm Eastern)
• How to dial-in

Agenda

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

Action Items

New

Open

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

Closed

Friends of the Tree

• Wayne Mery for the astounding work he's been doing in 2009 in triaging bugs, filling crashers.

Thunderbird 3.1 (Lanikai)

• 3.1 Blocker Chart
• Lanikai builds now set up (with new trunk builds).

• Blockers
  • blocking-thunderbird3.1+ (includes tb31needs): 52 (+1)
• Proposed Blocking
  • blocking-thunderbird3.1?: 63 (+5)

• Fixed Alpha 1
  • TB 3.1a1 blocking: 4 (0)

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: 12 (-3)
• Blockers (needed): 17 (+6)
• Blocking 3.0.1: 20 (-2)
• Of which:
  • waiting branch patch (or approval flag setting): 16 (-1)

• Fixed 3.0.1: 43 (+12)
  • Of which need verification: 43 (+12)

QA Updates

• Xmas, new year period was slower with bug input.
• Having the first triage day of this year, this coming Thursday
• Working with Sun's QA people to add litmus test to cover the new account manager.

• Planned for the coming weeks :
  • Reorganize the QA wiki pages
  • Tests for 3.0.1
  • Planning for 3.1a1

Crashers

• topcrashes mostly unchanged from Thunderbird/StatusMeetings/2009-12-22
• only 1 of our top 5 crashes received significant attention in last 30-40 days - outlook seems bleak for getting these into 3.0.1, perhaps even 3.0.2
• brief analysis of crashes by component, based on signature of top 100 = 53% of crashes
  • 5% - extensions
  • 6% - no stack in the report
  • 14% - storage
  • 19% - oom and the like, so cause is unclear
  • 28% - core
  • 27% - thunderbird

Marketing Updates

• PR Update: Mozilla Messaging building nest for Thunderbird 3.1, Mozilla Raindrop Aims to Solve Message Glut in 2010
• Mozilla Community Marketing meeting first of the year, happens bi-weekly
• FOSDEM

IT update

Documentation

Done

• holidays
• sumomo: Message Archiving
• TB 3.0 for Developers

TODO / In Progress

• sumomo: keyboard shortcuts
• support doc locations 521665 (port as relevant - talk to Roland about redirects)
• sumomo: bug 521665

Support

1. Draft Support Workflow Document <-- Feedback please! Edit the page, etc.
2. Thunderbird 3.0 Top Support Issues <- please add support issues to this page, or let me know! new this week:
   1. Bullguard Anti-Virus causes blank windows - GS topic, Bug 537769
   2. Add-Ons:
      1. Expanded Columns e.g. for IMAP size - missing from folder Pane - workaround: use extra folder columns add-on - GS topic, [bug]
      2. Functions for Address book aka MoreColsForAddressBook - need to uninstall TB 2 version and install TB 3 version (confusingly both TB2 and 3 versions have the same version number!) - GS topic, bug 533903
3. SUMO for MoMo aka SuMoMo - SuMoMo project plan
   1. theming done but awaiting SSL widget code from GS & Gozer push of theming SVN updates
   2. since SuMoMo uses SSL, waiting for GS to give us GS search widget code that we can put on the sidebar that works with SSL, expected a fix before Christmas (not rocket science since since all the GS widgets except the Satisfaction Search widget that we are using allow SSL, followed up with GS developer January 4)
   3. content - hoping to get some more of JenZed's time and other volunteers to finish in the next two weeks:
      1. Priority 1 - total 7 of which 3 need final editing, 1 in progress, 3 more to be written
      2. Priority 2 - total 4 of which: 1 done needs final editing, 3 more left to be written
4. Key Support stats from the following graphic:
   1. approximately 66/ day (466/7 new topics down because of the holidays), # of visitors 21000 a bit lower for the holidays, down from peak of 35000)
   2. total new topics:466 total replies from employees and contributors: 97 down due to holidays thanks everybody who took time to help during the holidays! (Ruby Code)
      1. date:20091229 #new support topics:72 resolved:16
      2. date:20091230 #new support topics:55 resolved:11
      3. date:20091231 #new support topics:53 resolved:17
      4. date:20100101 #new support topics:60 resolved:15
      5. date:20100102 #new support topics:55 resolved:13
      6. date:20100103 #new support topics:36 resolved:11
      7. date:20100104 #new support topics:68 resolved:16

Lightning Updates

• QA period for Lightning 1.0b1rc1 ends soon
  • No dramatic blocking bugs encountered, rc1 will most likely become release
  • A few l10n strings were changed after rc1, sipaq told me these are probably minor changes though.
• Still waiting for Sunbird 1.0b1rc1
• Post 1.0b1 will concentrate on performance improvement.

Roundtable

Status Updates

sid0

davida

dmose

Last week:

• vacation

This week:

• catch up with email
• 3.0.1 coding/review work
• 3.1a1 driving

Standard8

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

asuth

bienvenu

• Reviews and Driving
• Reset flag state when selecting new folder, fixes issues with condstore servers, bug 524902
• Fix archiving of messages in multiple years, and add mozmill test for archiving, bug 531829
• Worked on other 3.01 fixes

gozer

clarkbw

• Last Week
  • vacation
• This Week
  • Netbooks
  • Raindrop
  • UI-Reviews

wsmwk

• filed 23 crashes
• took a spin through ldap bugs
• retriaged dataloss bugs
• triaging incoming crash bug reports

beckley

Penelope

• Wanted to release Eudora 8 beta 8 today, but build symbols are not cooperating
• Will be out at CES rest of week
• E8b8 release likely early next week

KaiRo

rkent

rebron

Last week

• vacation
• setup GS triage meetings for Mondays at 10am PST

This week

• Get a handle on 3.0.1
• Contracts for PR, GS, web site.
• Party planning

Tsk

This week :

• Catching up on bugmail
• Prepare 3.0.1 testing and 3.1a1 testing
• Regular event

andreasn

This week:

• Lanakai branding bug 535209
• Shredder branding bug 433630
• Work on folder pane bug bug 535021
• Make sure my other 3.0.1 blocker fixes goes in.

bwinton

Last week:

• Took vacation.
• Reviewed bug 534582, and bug 537649.
• Read the Employee Manual.

This week:

• Work on my 3.0.x blockers. (bug 534448 and bug 533680.)
• More NetBook work.
• Answer more GetSatisfaction questions.

roland

sgautherie

• Fixed (or in-progress) MailNews Core bugs:
  • bug 442730 composition security options for encrypt should only be one menu item (with checkbox) like signing
  • bug 523820 Remove old MOZILLA_1_9_1_BRANCH ifdefs from comm-central code
  • bug 536136 Port |Bug 515792 - build system runs identical 'hg identify' command too many times| to comm-central
  • bug 456860 Improve msgCompSMIMEOverlay.js and msgReadSMIMEOverlay.js
  • bug 536408 Update license blocks to use "Mozilla Foundation" instead of "Mozilla Corporation", comm-central part

nth10sd

Fallen

• Exams starting 25.01.2010, will last until 11.02.2010. No time for Calendar in this period, but lots of time afterwards to make up for it!

jcranmer

BenB

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