Thunderbird/StatusMeetings/2009-03-17

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Thunderbird Meeting Details :

• Tuesday, Mar 17th, 16:30 UTC (9:30am Pacific, 12:30pm Eastern)
• How to dial-in

Agenda

• Who's taking minutes? --> Ludovic
• Minute taking Schedule. Talk to davida for schedule changes/additions.

Thunderbird 3 Beta 3

• Everyone with bugs in the 3.0b3 bugs in NEW state, please do one of the following with your bugs by 23:59 Thursday, Pacific time:
  • move your bugs to the ASSIGNED state to indicate that you agree to be on the hook for doing the implementation work (and think you'll have the time to do so)
  • re-assign to nobody@mozilla.org with a comment asking for drivers to find someone else

• Proposed Freezes ( All dates use time of 23:59 PST )
  • Slushy String freeze date: 2009-04-24
  • Slushy Code Freeze date: 2009-04-26
  • Firm String / Code freeze date: 2009-04-28
  • l10n-mozilla-1.9.1 freeze date: 2009-04-30
  • Target Build Ship date: 2009-05-05

• dmose is release driver
• gozer is build engineer

• Blockers/Wanted
  • TB 3.0b3 - blocking 80
  • TB 3.0b3 - wanted 24
• Proposed Blocking
  • Proposed Blockers (b3) 2
• Fixed:
  • TB 3.0b3 - blocking 30 (+9)
  • TB 3.0b3 - wanted 7 (+1)

• Five weekly milestones ([m1] - [m5]) have been created to help spread out b3ux feature work across the milestone and avoid lots of hard landings / misses at the end of the cycle.
  • mail will be sent to b3ux bug owners asking them to spread those bugs across the milestones
  • [m1] is one week from today

Thunderbird 3

• davida now driving Tb3 so that dmose can focus on driving 3.0b3
• Thunderbird:Thunderbird3:DevRoadmap
• Blockers
  • blocking-thunderbird3+ 125 (+5)
  • TB 3 Needs: 4 (+1)
• Proposed Blocking
  • Proposed Blockers (all): 16 (0)

• Please set bugs to assigned status (as well as owner to you) if you want to do them.
• If you have other bugs assigned to you that you don't want to do, please reassign or discuss with drivers.
• Trying to put together a schedule that will land features every week or two. dmose will be putting a plan together.

QA Updates

• in-testsuite? 34 bugs without a test and with the ? flag set.
• in-testsuite not used enough?
  • what are the criteria?
  • when is the right time to ask, and who asks?

Roundtable

Reminder: Google Summer of Code

• Google Page
• Brainstorming page
• Projects with confirmed mentors

Students start discussing ideas on 18th March, start applying on 23rd March.

Shark builds (nth10sd)

• Firefox now builds Shark nightlies on Mac automatically for performance profiling - should we do so too?

Status Updates

nth10sd

• Patchlove - setting old patches as obsolete if they bitrotted or r-'ed.
• QA, bugdays, etc.