Thunderbird/StatusMeetings/2012-05-29

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Thunderbird Meeting Details :

• Tuesday, May 29, 2012 16:30 UTC (9:30am Pacific, 12:30pm Eastern)
• How to dial-in

Remember to use headphones and mute yourself when not 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? --> Ludovic
• 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

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 abourcier@mozilla.com that she can send them a shirt!

• Many thanks to Mick Fuzz of Tech Tools for Activism for his Thunderbird "challenge" course on P2PU and supporting FLOSS workbook
• Matthew Mecca, for doing some great work in keeping Lightning running during Philipp's vacation.

Thunderbird Development

Schedule and Progress

• Next merge date: 4 June
• For information about channels, point people here - http://www.mozilla.org/thunderbird/channel/

Daily & Earlybird builds

• Signing of builds now enabled by default.

Extension of the week

address close button a utility that is make removing a recipient in Thunderbird easier. Without it you need to select the complete email address and press backspace - with it you click a button.

QA Updates

• Late on a test plan for external services
  • FileLink
  • Account provisionner
• Worked on Mac signed build
• Worked on beta release
• Had a rather unsuccessful test day last Thursday - (no activity visible)
  • Had it announced on both twitter and quality.mozilla.org
  • Was not posted to neither mdat/tb-planning nor Thunderbird-testers

Documentation

• reorganizing Knowledge Base forums to make it easier for contributors to find tasks (the forums function as a TODO list)
• prep for BCIT panel
• practicum student projects:
  • article sourced in French needs to be translated into English so that it gets included in update / localization workflow
  • add saved search draft from Andrew to Knowledge Base
• new enterprise tip transferred to MDN from enterprise mailing list: Updating users to access LDAP
• contributor drafts:
  • enabling digital signatures and encryption
  • compacting background and usage

Lightning Updates

• Mac builder could not be moved to scl3, we likely need a new one.
• Callek volunteered to put together a new VM for the windows builder to fix bug 757500.
• Lightning 1.5 release builds to be created tomorrow or Wednesday, likely need to be manually put together due to missing mac builder (2-3 changesets added)

Status Updates

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

Attendees

Usul