Project: thunderbird

Done:

• M7 is wrapping up this week - still quite a few things left to do that are going to slip - but as far as I can tell, this still looks healthy enough to land early in the 25 cycle.
• Working with User Research group on scripts for cloning / protecting user profiles during the tests. I've hit a few snags here that I'm working out with User Research today.
• Wrote a try-build only patch for Bug 883268 - disable all sync activity for user research build

Fixed:

• Bug 873058 - Download button should do something reasonable when in the menu panel
• Bug 881909 - Wrap and unwrap toolbaritems after customization mode transition finishes
• Bug 880701 - Add capability for PanelUI to ignore mutations
• Bug 856665 - Australis toolbar buttons for OSX
• Bug 880391 - Don't observe mutations when panel is first populated
• Bug 871204 - Auto-fit menu panel after customization mode exits
• Bug 883147 - Missing bookmark star for HiDPI displays

Reviewed:

• Bug 878126 - Subscribe button has no icon in the customization palette for Retina displays
• Bug 882960 - Edit and zoom controls don't go back to the menupanel after a reset

Working on: * Bug 875499 - Adding new menu panel and toolbar items

Done:

Snappy:

• Post bug 853388 JSON patch for second review
• Post r? patch for using async write for XPI DB
• Bug 853388 Cleanup: create patch to only upgrade from SQLITE on appropriate schema version
• Bug 853388: Create Promise version of DeferredSave module
• Wrestle with hg mq, try switching to pbranch...

Done:

• Fixed review comments and pushed bug 466451, bug 759324
• Review bug 751821
• FileLink support for Lightning events, bug 738078
• Some fixes towards binary-free Lightning * Get rid calIRecurenceDateSet (mostly unused), bug 785659 * Replace calRecurrenceDate code with a js implementation, bug 788267
• Some fixes towards a faster/better storage provider * Move to using icalString for attendees, bug 785733 * Work in progress to remove synchronous SQL statements of storage provider, bug 501689.
• Meeting room icons in attendee dialog, bug 425343
• Support for users experiencing print issues since Lightning 1.7
• Fix Calendar builders, bug 779192, bug 780376
• Mozcamp EU 2012 in Warsaw
• Global AppMenu support, bug 785692
• Mentoring some NUS students, bug 782152, bug 694024, bug 767300, bug 561181
• Remove footgun from Lightning build system, bug 791983
• Thunderbird build config, remove NSTIMEFUNCTION, bug 792579
• Regression fix for FileLink on Seamonkey, bug 792884
• Reviewed a few regression fixes for print support
• Review bug 792266, bug 793387
• Fix for memory calendar when used as cache, bug 793262
• Various PR reviews on https://github.com/kewisch/ical.js/
• Experiment with "endless views" extension, an endless scrolling month and week view.

Done:

• Android Search Exploration:
  • File bug 791060.
• IM:
  • UI-Review bug 787149.
• ISPDB:
  • Post a patch to bug 781228.
• Comment on bug 791624.
• Give feedback on bug 512956.
• Review bug 466276, bug 789263 and bug 791311.
• UI-Review bug 244347, bug 466276, bug 49474, bug 524934, bug 561762, bug 731145, bug 775665 and bug 783110.

Done:

• https://wiki.mozilla.org/SeaMonkey/StatusMeetings/2012-09-04#sgautherie

Done:

• Followed Adobe ramp up the pace of 11.4 beta beta releases towards the final release of this version.
• Discussed bsmedberg's proposal to revamp hang reporting.
• Kept a closer eye on mobile stability while Naoki is away.
• Did some preliminary testing of a staged version of Socorro with rapid beta / by-build reporting support.
• Also there, tested additional fields appearing in UI for single crash reports.
• Replaced clunky handling of throttling in my explosiveness reports.
• Made some of the data gathering for my reports automatically know about new versions by just querying Socorro data and made crashes per build recognize ESR.
• As usual, watched new/rising crashes, caring that bugs are filed where needed, and made sure my custom reports keep working well.
• Reviewed some comm-central ports of build system improvements (bug 727406, bug 781446).
• Reviewed some German L10n work on Mozilla-16-cycle builds of Thunderbird, Firefox for Android and Firefox for desktop.
• More work on the 2.12 versions of EarlyBlue and LCARStrek, matching the Mozilla 15 train.

Done:

• Getting Pymake working on Windows build slaves. To that end, fixed a large number of issues (too many to list; see bug 593585 and its deps). Pymake cuts down clobber build times on the slaves by 50-60 minutes.
• Borrowed a Windows build slave to test Pymake out.
• Landed patches to invoke cl.py as a native command when run under Pymake: bug 585011, bug 780508, bug 780612).
• Misc fixes: bug 600522, bug 781431 + a couple of other small ones.

Done:

• Struggled with OS X and plugin support, filed llvm bug 13546
• _penter no-op patching support completed (needs tetsing on OS X)
• Web front-end for viewing telemetry data on _penter coverage

Done:

• Filed #763436, #763437, 763919
• Patches for #727598, #761952, #748358
• Graphics for #754658, 748358
• Reviews
• Testing and feedback on #562048, #763308
• Fought #759744, but lost so far

Done:

• started organizing Testing event for both * Thunderbird 10 - mail sent to tb-testers , post on mozillazine * Lightning
• Blocked 20+ users on https://identi.ca/group/thunderbird , need to clean the group more
• Draft blog post for the calendar blog

Done:

Reviews and Driving

Vacation!

All Hands

Had some discussions over e-mail with Florian about IM TB integration

Started discussion with B2G folks about e-mail in B2G

Attended Privacy Friends kick-off meeting

fix moz-central bug 687319 spell check dialog for mailnews broken

Put up new pluggable store patch for review, addressed a bunch of Neil's excellent review comments

Cleaned up moderation backlog on dev-apps-thunderbird

make local folder search reparse folders in the case of missing summary files, bug 682731

remove xpcom proxies from ab import, part of bug 675407

fix bug 503193, keep trying to send messages in outbox when one send fails, part of work to turn send in background on by default

remove proxying of ldap message listener during smime cert fetching, part of bug 675407

get rid of libmime's use of xpcom proxying, part of bug 675407

fix local tag loss with condstore servers, bug 678148

remove xpcom proxy use from mailnews import, part of bug 675407

fix bug 675598, list reply fails if any identity is missing an e-mail address,

fix issue sending inline images when e-mail address of identity has whitespace, bug 685462

part of bug 668869 - port ffox work to lazily load libxul to speed up start-up perf and remove wrapper startup script

make message sending scriptable, bug 679476

fix bug 688991 plaintext part not sent when sending both plain and rich text

Done:

;Fixed *{{bug|688357}}, fix SeaMonkey Windows Build Failure due to Bug 648581. *{{bug|680113}} - Select Add-ons dialog lists distribution add-ons as installed by the user *{{bug|687797}} - Bring CentOS 5 Linux Slaves up to date based on MoCo puppet configs. *{{bug|680200}} - Add fi to Venkman all-locales

Done:

• Reviews
• Miramar tree set up and running
• Thunderbird 5 Beta released
• Various release co-ordination driving, and setting up of trees etc.

Done:

• Helping some users w/ Tb upgrade, on GS, email, phone.
• PR outreach (heads up on Tb upgrade).
• Funnel cake prep for Wed evening launch. bug 582240, 589927, 589945, 589930, 589937, 589941, 589943
• Some surveygizmo clean up - version 3.0 from 2.0

Done:

Patchlove till number #400000.

Done:

• bug 568471 - Move MoMoDB backups to the NAS
• bug 564400 - SpreadThunderbird spring cleanup
• Raindrop spring cleanups

Done:

• Thunderbird 3.1rc1 * blockers assigned to me * crasher investigation support
• (in process) wmsy widgeting manifesting system prove-out

Done:

1. looked at top 5 active topics 2. SuMoMo 1.5 discussion with jsocolo and gozer 3. <a href="https://wiki.mozilla.org/User_talk:Rtanglao/TB3NewSupportTopicWizardPrototypeDesign">quick design sketch for support wizard</a> 4. lots of other stuff :-)

Done:

• lotsa postings on gsfn performance issues
• gsfn suggestions to roland
• normal bug triage
• respin through shutdown hang bugs
• recruited pop triager Rob S
• recruited Mac crash bug filer MikeP Pasek (who is doing a great job) - he's picking from crash-stats
• granted editbugs to MikeP Pasek
• revised https://wiki.mozilla.org/index.php?title=Thunderbird:Bug_Triage&action=history
• new bugs * bug 546316 crash [@ nsXULPrototypeCache::WritePrototype(nsXULPrototypeDocument)] * bug 546429 hang after dialog alert Could not connect to mail server ... the connection was refused" - no cpu * bug 547344 windows startup crash [@ nsChromeTreeOwner::OnLocationChange(nsIWebProgress, nsIRequest, nsIURI)] * bug 547954 3.1b1pre shuts down unattended - windows dialog "A problem caused the program to stop working correctly. Windows will close the program and notify you if a solution is available."

Done:

• Fixed redo shortcuts for Mac and Linux
• Fixed (hopefully) the last regression from single-package-manifest

Done:

set up TB build environment; download source; mess around with building; find out building is not necessary (fail)

Done:

Spent the weekend playing around with a bugzilla->couchdb converter, so I can get stats more easily than I can w/ bugzilla. Making good progress on things like review-time, etc.