Thunderbird/StatusMeetings/2011-08-30

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(current release schedules returning soon)

Thunderbird Meeting Details :

• Tuesday, August 23, 2011 16:30 UTC (9:30am Pacific, 12:30pm Eastern)
• How to dial-in

Remember to press *1 to unmute yourself before talking!

Feel free to ask questions in the meeting either by speaking up or by asking them in #maildev on IRC.

Other ways to get in touch with us can be found on our communications page

Agenda

• Who's taking minutes? --> sancus
• Minute taking Schedule. Talk to Standard8 for schedule changes/additions.
• Note: this meeting is for interactive discussion. Feel free to ask questions!

Friends of the Tree

• Lanoxx, a contributor from Germany, did a significant update and expansion to the Thunderbird extension tutorial

Thanks to our Friend of the Tree. When adding someone to this section, please get their T-Shirt size, phone number (needed for shipping!) and send it to rebron@mozilla.com so that he can send them a shirt!

Thunderbird Development

For more details, see also the driver meeting notes.

Feature Work

Account Provisioner

• bwinton sent mockups of the final flow to various third parties.
• bwinton doesn't have enough time to actually get the patch written on schedule, and so has asked Protz for help driving it home.

Experiments

Thunderbird Conversations

Protz:

• Did more Telemetry-related work, currently blocking on:
  • the privacy policy for Thunderbird being online and,
  • Sid Stamm's privacy review for our Thunderbird-specific probes.
• Gloda work finished, currently blocking on: Telemetry landing, so that we can compare the probes before/after
• Thunderbird Conversations 2.1 is about to be released, please try out the latest version and report anything suspicious.
• Leaving Vancouver on Friday.

Ubuntu Unity Integration

• Keeping an eye out for show-stoppers, major problems - but so far, so good.

Schedule and Progress

Thunderbird 6

• released!

Thunderbird 7

• beta builds done and on FTP except for 4 locales, waiting on Standard8

Thunderbird 3.1.x

• The 3.1 series is going to keep going while we discuss how to work with enterprise users. Once there's a way forward there, we'll close down the 3.1 branch.

Extension of the week

• Auto Address cleaner Let's you send emails without sending the comments stored in your address book. Very useful if you have a lot of address entries with comments.

QA Updates

• Release work
• Bugzilla maintenance
• We need more people running on the Aurora channel
• How we plan on changing testing with the train release model

Build / Release Update

• jhopkins back from vacation
• Thunderbird 6.0
  • Major updates in *test channels
• Thunderbird 7.0b1
• Mozmill now in-tree

Web Update

• channel page done and here: http://www-stage.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/channel -- localization bugs will be filed today
• working on Kitsune update and a bunch of small website bugs

Documentation

• Knowledge Base community contributions:
  • Blocking a Sender
  • Configuring Email Aliases
  • three KB article expansions from contributors

• New MDN contributor: update and expand Thunderbird extension tutorial

• investigate enabling feedback site for Thunderbird

• 17 responses to (from us to them) to contributor inquiry form

Support

(If you support Thunderbird or write or translate documentation to help support Thunderbird, please subscribe to the tb-support-crew mailing list and briefly introduce yourself to the list) (was off M-W last week so no report last week)

1. 1640 new support topics (1591 2 weeks ago) - Media:22-28August2011Metrics.png
2. Thunderbird 6 Support Issues
3. Thunderbird 7 Support Issues - new! please edit and add any issues found in TB7 (currently beta 1), starting at beta 1 for TB7 and future releases
4. See this week's Support Appendix for full Get Satisfaction metrics and other support details

Lightning Updates

Philipp has been very busy with exams, therefore work has slowed a bit, but:

• Summer of Code is now over, I'd say it has been a success for calendar!
• Tree situation has yet to be solved, I'm on it.
• Working on providing a build for Tb7.0b1

Status Updates

See the Mozilla Status Board for status updates specific to developers.