Thunderbird/StatusMeetings/2013-02-05

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Thunderbird Meeting Details :

• Tuesday, February 5, 2013 09:30 UTC (9:30am Pacific, 12:30pm Eastern)
• How to dial-in

Remember to use headphones and mute yourself when not talking

Feel free to ask questions in the meeting either by speaking up or by asking them in #maildev on IRC.

Other ways to get in touch with us can be found on our communications page

Meeting Changes

• taking notes on Etherpad at https://thunderbird.etherpad.mozilla.org/status-meeting-minute-taking
• We have a calendar at https://mail.mozilla.com/home/mbanner@mozilla.com/Thunderbird%20Schedules to have meetings coming up.
  • Is this visible for people with no Zimbra account
    • Yes

Critical Issues

• none

Upcoming

• Firefox is releasing 18.0.2 - doesn't affect us.

Action Items

• Standard8: Update Wiki status meeting page with calendar link - DONE!
• Standard8: Document flags to tb-planning
• Standard8: Follow up with metric numbers being public - This should be happening soon, work has been done, waiting for final approvals
• Look into having the notes blogged
• We need to get the meeting notes blog to pick up the pages again.

Friends of the Tree

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Status Updates

• Standard8
  • Apologies for not being at the meeting today
  • Fixed a bunch of tree bustage this week
  • OS X builds being looked into (Bug 837618)
  • Been working with releng on getting 17.0esr and 17 mainstream building from one repository - various branding updates etc.
  • Aiming to catch up on reviews end of this week / start of next
  • Next week is preparation for builds for the 17.0.3 releases
  • Merge date for next cycle is 19th Feb (not 18th due to holidays: President's day in USA; Family Day in Toronto; Vancouver Family day is February 11 for some strange reason)
• mconley
  • Spent a few hours going through my review queue this past weekend
  • Queue is shrinking, but still needs attention. I'll get there soon.
  • Ensemble
    • Can save and update contacts very nicely with syntax like this: http://www.pastebin.mozilla.org/2116543
    • Working on asynchronously retrieving all contacts with Promises, returning a Backbone Collection.
    • Considering altering the roadmap so that we target read-only capability for imported contacts for TB 24.s
      • Focusing on that will reduce focus on LDAP/Facebook/etc connectors.
      • Does anyone from the community want to help out with those?
      • Ludo says "+1".
• bwinton
  • Also spent a few hours going through my review queue this past weekend.
  • Queue is also shrinking, but still needs attention.  :)
• jcranmer
  • Will not be at meeting
  • e4x is now dead and gone FOREVER! Thank-you!!!!!!!
  • Hoping to have m-c ready for subconfigure scripts shortly (see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=648980) [prerequisite for cc-rework]
  • JS MIME
    • Next piece of functionality is i18n support (RFC 2047/RFC 2231)
    • Designing body/attachment and htmlifiers API still
  • de-RDF
    • Repreparing the folder-lookup patch based on mailing list feedback
  • DXR work and exams will probably suck up more of my time in the next few weeks
• aceman
  • happy that bug https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=436089 lands now (checked in right now!!!). More removal of nsISupportsArray and nsIEnumerator in the queue.
  • Could use review in https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=807848
  • bwinton's & mconley's reviews flowing in :)
  • special thanks to Neil for increased activity/responsiveness.
• Roland Tanglao
  • fingers crossed that :sancus gets showfor bug done this week so we can move the SuMoMo migration forward:
  • showfor: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=816279
  • migration tracker bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=816277
  • https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird/Thunderbird17.0SupportIssues (if you find any issues in 17.0.2)
• Usul
  • followed on some bugs
  • looked quickly at crashes
  • Marketing - AM is in the process of giving the keys to Benjamin.
  • Talked to Sun (yes it's true they still have a team of 1 plus students working on old version about using Moztrap instead of Litmus
• clokep
  • Initial patch for handling invalid certs / SSL connections in chat done in https://bugzilla.instantbird.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1100
  • Contacted Google and iTeleport about https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=775977 (iTeleport buddies causing Thunderbird to disconnect), got a response from iTeleport -- being redirected to their engineering department
• Irving
  • Occasional reviews
  • Looking at bug 701533; appears to be symptom of a general problem with front end dropping all references to an IMAP socket without closing it; when NSS times out and closes the socket, references get released on the wrong thread.
• Axel
  • Have asked AMO Admins to implement Tb Addons Re-Categorization; https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=835063 <=> https://etherpad.mozilla.org/tb-amo-category-improvements

Roundtable Highlights

Question Time

• Can anyone steal reviews for any module, or does it need to be a peer?
  • You have to use your best judgement. If it's a trivial fix, or fixing something you feel you understand, then go for it. In Florian's case, he should probably just take it.  ;)

Attendees

Roland Tanglao, Mike Conley, Irving Reid, Blake Winton, Ludovic Hirlimann, Florian Queze, aceman (audio, no mic), clokep (audio, no mic), RealRaven aka Axel :) (no mic here as well)