Helpwanted - porting the work to use the maintenance service on Windows

[Mark Banner]

With the switch to the Firefox automation now complete, we're also picking up automated signing of builds, this should start on nightly builds either from today, or Monday.

The side effect of this is that we can now move forward with the maintenance service on Windows that removes the need for the UAC dialog. This would be a good win for our Windows users.

I'm looking to get this done before the 4th June - so that it is in time for Thunderbird 15.

I've put details in the bug, most of this work should generally be porting the relevant code from mozilla/browser/ to mail/ - there shouldn't be any significant redeveloping, here's the bug:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=758326

I'm willing to help out with questions, testing etc.

Any takers?

I'm envisioning that we'll pick up the silent updates for TB 16, unless someone has time to pick it up before the merge and we're confident that there appears to no significant issues in the Firefox version that has just re-landed.

Mark.