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The Mailnews Crisis

JK
Jörg Knobloch
Sun, Oct 22, 2017 9:14 AM

Hey Folks,

I have seven bugs waiting for review in Mailnews, two waiting for two months, one for a month, one for a bustage bug is waiting for two weeks, the Outlook import fix is waiting for a week now.

Mailnews development is basically blocked by the two most knowledgable reviews who practically stopped reviewing, apart from a occasional morsel of wisdom dropped here or there.

The situation is particularly precarious since Mailnews, having a high C++ part, is affected by bustage regularly. There are those "drive-by" critics and "post-landing review" opponents who apart from non-constructive criticism and unpractical suggestions (like backing out M-C changes on branches which would add extra work and end up in a tangled mess in no time flat) have contributed precious little to solving the problem.

Find my queue below, if someone feels fit to steal a review, go right ahead, I'll take review from anyone :-(

I sometimes ask M-C people like Boris (:bz), Nicholas (:njn), Masatoshi (:emk), Andrea (:baku) and others for review, they are far more responsive than the Mailnews peers.

Jörg.

<acelists@atlas.sk> review [1016524](https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1016524 "NEW - crash in
          MimeMultipart_parse_eof with multipart/related.
          kid->clazz accessed after free (double reference to
          child)") 25 minutes ago   [m\_kato@ga2.so-net.ne.jp](mailto:m_kato@ga2.so-net.ne.jp) review [1381762](https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1381762 "ASSIGNED - Replace
          nsIPlatfromCharset on mailnews (or move it to
          comm-central)") 2 days ago   <rkent@caspia.com> review [1176748](https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1176748 "ASSIGNED - Fix Outlook import (not
          working since TB 38)") 7 days ago   <Pidgeot18@gmail.com> review [1176748](https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1176748 "ASSIGNED - Fix Outlook import (not
          working since TB 38)") 7 days ago   <mkmelin+mozilla@iki.fi> review [1176748](https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1176748 "ASSIGNED - Fix Outlook import (not
          working since TB 38)") 7 days ago   <kmaglione+bmo@mozilla.com> review [1396172](https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1396172 "NEW - Add support for
          WebExtensions") 7 days ago   <rkent@caspia.com> review [1403771](https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1403771 "RESOLVED - Compaction on Windows
          broken, caused by bug 1403393 / bug 1402888 - Fix
          test_folderCompact.js, test_over4GBMailboxes.js, see
          comment #13 (failing test_gloda_content_imap_offline.js,
          test_compactOfflineStore.js fixed in bug 1404045)") 15 days ago   <rkent@caspia.com> review [1403771](https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1403771 "RESOLVED - Compaction on Windows
          broken, caused by bug 1403393 / bug 1402888 - Fix
          test_folderCompact.js, test_over4GBMailboxes.js, see
          comment #13 (failing test_gloda_content_imap_offline.js,
          test_compactOfflineStore.js fixed in bug 1404045)") 15 days ago   <rkent@caspia.com> review [780124](https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780124 "NEW - After "4XX error on
          greeting from SMTP server" or "error response to
          SMTP command", mail is saved in Sent folder and
          composition window is closed, despite that SMTP send of
          mail fails") 19 days ago   <Pidgeot18@gmail.com> review [1402813](https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1402813 "NEW - Re-establish UTF-7 support in
          JS Mime") 26 days ago   <rkent@caspia.com> review [1389173](https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1389173 "ASSIGNED - Implement
          nsLDAPURL::GetDisplay[Spec|Host|HostPort] better and
          enhance test") 2 months ago   <rkent@caspia.com> review [1320191](https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1320191 "ASSIGNED - Outlook/Hotmail trash
          folder is called "Deleted" in English and
          localised versions of Thunderbird") 2 months ago   <makemyday@gmx-topmail.de> review [758585](https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=758585 "ASSIGNED - Fix all creations of
          nsITimer that are locally-scoped and susceptible to GC
          before firing, in comm-central") 8 months ago