Thunderbird Summit 2014

Last month (Oct. 15th to Oct. 18th, to be precise), twenty volunteers descended on Mozilla’s Toronto office to discuss Mozilla Thunderbird. This included Mozilla employees, Thunderbird contributors of all sorts (developers, user interface designers, add-on reviewers), Lightning contributors, and chat/Instantbird contributors.

It was great to spend some quality hacking time with Florian and to meet Nihanth, both Instantbird guys who I talk to most days on IRC! I also had the pleasure of re-meeting a few people from the Mozilla Summit last year (I attended in Toronto) and to meet some brand new people!

A few pictures of the chat contributors: Nihanth; me, Florian and Nihanth; and Daniel (dialing in!)

It was really nice to actually sit down for a few days and work on Instantbird/Thunderbird without the distractions of “real life”. I, unfortunately, spent the first day fixing an Instantbird bustage (from a mozilla-central change that removed some NSS symbols…why, I have no idea). But after that, we got some really exciting work done! We started cleaning up and finalizing some patches from Google Summer of Code 2014 to add WebRTC support to XMPP! You can check out the progress in bug 1018060.

First working call over Instantbird WebRTC.

Other highlights of the trip include eating the “Canadian delicacy” of poutine (with pulled pork on it)!