Thunderbird/StatusMeetings/2013-07-23

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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.

Attendees

mconley, Standard8, jcranmer, rolandtanglao, wsmwk, aceman, clokep

Action items from last meetings

• (ongoing) Standard8: Follow up with metric numbers being public
  • Pinged again on 2013-06-11, should be going through final approvals
  • Not hearing from them...might need to poke them again
• (2013-04-02) Standard8: Investigating possibilities for dropping second ESR release channel whilst maintaining mainstream the same as the ESR releases.
  • Will send something to tb-planning
• (2013-04-02) Standard8: arrange for swag to be sent to WADA and Aryx who are our awesome FotT.
  • Waiting to hear from Anne-Marie on how to do that.
• Community as a whole: Decide "who is supposed to plan our dances?"
  • rkent: Send a proposal to tb-planning
• http.jsm update
  • This has landed in m-c!
  • Broke FileLink, which mconley fixed. bug 893316
  • Broke Twitter, I have a patch that Mossop r+'d, but waiting for an r+ on tests. bug 894367

Critical Issues

• The tree is orange. CrazyVery orange.
  • Starting to get a handle on some of the more pesistent issues, though still plenty to fix
  • Standard8 thinks he has a patch for the plugin failures on Windows on Aurora, there's another persistent failure wrt plugins that has been introduced though (in c-c land)
  • Other new bustages, we'll likely need help for getting the strict failures fixed in the fakeservers.
  • Strict warnings - bug 896738
  • make check bug - bug 897045
• There are a whole lot of bugs on the tracking list for 24

Upcoming

Round Table

• clokep
  • Probably won't be on the call?
  • My GSoC student, qheaden, has reached his first milestone for a Yahoo protocol plug-in
    • XPI-ified code: https://bugzilla.instantbird.org/attachment.cgi?id=2626
      • Please try it (works in both IB and TB) and let qheaden know of any issues on IRC
    • If you feel like drive-by reviewing code: https://bugzilla.instantbird.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1982
    • Supports all the features on this Etherpad
      • Most basic features except profile information
    • Hoping to land it this week!

• jcranmer
  • 50-50 chance of being on the call?
  • Boil the ocean work in progress/planned:
    • bug 884061 (NS_IMPL_THREADSAFE -> NS_DECL_THREADSAFE) (landed on m-i, please fix your patches if affected)
    • Planning to do other PR_ATOMIC->mozilla::Atomic changes
    • bug 895047, bug 523156 (char16_t)
  • cc-rework
    • Fixing up client.py for post-cc-rework world
    • Working on getting c-c building under m-c without symlinks all over the place
  • Others
    • bug 441437 (finally!)

• mconley
  • Ate through a metric tonne of review requests. Down to 8!
  • Ensemble
    • Jon Demelo has landed his first patch which adds preliminary infrastructure for the CardDAV connector
    • Jon and I have overhauled the API proposal, simplified it somewhat, and given connectors the responsibility of caching the entries they need in order to signal contact differences.
  • Devtools for Thunderbird
    • Fallen is working on getting Scratchpad working for TB

• Standard8
  • Tree bustages
  • Branch landings/updating

• JosiahOne
  • Not on call
  • N/A most of this week, however a working 'animate TB tabs' protype/patch has been finished. Will try to complete it next week.

• aceman
  • Nothing. Fixing some tests. Then I need to get back into pace and refresh patches.

Question Time

• wsmwk: Been looking at memory bugs, and interested in moving forward on bug 805023
  • jcranmer: Someone needs to do something with dmd (dark-matter-detector) to determine what's going on there.

Action Items