Thunderbird/StatusMeetings/2011-06-07

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Current Release Schedules

Thunderbird 5.0 Final Beta	Thunderbird 3.1.11
ETA: end of week	Builds start: 13 June QA with builds start: 14 June Beta period starts: 14/15 June Final release: 21 June

Thunderbird Meeting Details :

• Tuesday, June 7, 2011 16:30 UTC (9:30am Pacific, 12:30pm Eastern)
• How to dial-in

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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

Thanks to our Friends of the Tree When adding someone to this section, please get their T-Shirt size 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

• The providers all preferred the old design to the new provider-first design, so we'll go with that, as long as the privacy review agrees.

OpenSearch

• Squib has fixed a number of bugs, and bwinton needs to respond to his pull request…
• The current list of issues is at https://github.com/mozilla/opensearch/issues

Experiments

Thunderbird Conversations

• All blocking bugs for b1 resolved. Waiting on the translators to finish before submitting to AMO.
• New branch that allows you to comment on a bug directly from the quick reply area, assuming you are viewing a bugmail thread. Will merge to master after b1 is out. Works pretty great!
• More polish, as always. Thunderbird work to enhance the interaction. Finally fixed (Thunderbird side) the long standing bug of the IMIP bar that would never disappear.
• See https://github.com/protz/GMail-Conversation-View/issues?sort=created&direction=desc&state=open&page=1 if you want to give a hand.

Ubuntu Unity Integration

• EDS integration work is going full steam ahead
  • De-RDF'ing of the Address Book is starting to pay off - I've created a new type of address book, purely in Javascript.
  • The de-RDF'ing patch needs to be landed before July 5th if it's going to make it to Ubuntu in time for us to make use of the EDS integration add-on.
  • Address books are showing up - need to get contacts displaying properly, and we'll be in good shape.
• There's a weekly meeting with the Canonical folk on Wednesdays, 9AM EST, in #thunderbird-unity on Freenode.
• We'll hear back about disk space by June 2nd.

Schedule and Progress

Thunderbird 5 (Miramar)

• Thunderbird 5.0 first beta released
• Working on final blockers and l10n approvals for second and final planned beta.
• Hoping to start build soon after 23:59 PDT on Wednesday 8th, will release as soon as we're ready.
• 5.* has been added to AMO, doing a blog post for extensions later today.

Thunderbird 6

• Now on aurora channel.
• Tree is aurora tree green.
• Once we finalise the name, we'll start nightly builds - hopefully Thursday or Friday.
• We have approval-comm-aurora, tracking flags are on their way, details coming to tb-planning soon.

Thunderbird 7

• Currently on comm-central.

Thunderbird 3.1.x

• Next release ETA June 21.
• Bug Lists: 3.1

Extension of the week

• Identity Chooser : is an extension useful when you have identities (or email aliases) on one mail account, you sometime send emails with the wrong From:. With this extension installed it should never happen again.

QA Updates

• Worked on TB 5.0b1

Marketing Updates

• PR Update: Over 20 articles for the Thunderbird Beta release, 1, 2, 3, 4
• Thunderbird ADUs: still at 7MM ADUs w/ 86.7% on latest major release; ~75k average downloads per day
• Continuing web design work, in review.

Infrastructure Update

• Sumomo/Kitsune : Upgraded

Build / Release Update

• Working through issues with Thunderbird 5.0b1 signing/updates. Will announce build ASAP.

Web Update

• Tracked down some intermittent kitsune bugs, merged l10n stuff
• Still working on AMO discovery pane bug, should be done this week
• Octopuses rule.

Documentation

• Open Help conference
  • blog post
  • my talk
• Thunderbird 5
  • New in TB 5 on staging site
  • other articles and updates go live today
• ongoing updates regarding updating Mozilla's engagement sites and pages (integrating Thunderbird)

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)

1. 1231 new support topics (1239 last week) - Media:30May-5June2011-Community_stats_for_Mozilla_Messaging.png
2. Thunderbird 5 Beta 1 is out! Would love some help with contributors to write some knowledge base articles. No experience required, just a copy of Thunderbird and the ability to write in English or translate. We'll polish up your writing and make it sing!
3. See this week's Support Appendix for full Get Satisfaction metrics and other support details

Status Updates

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

Roundtable Highlights

Can we get some of the FF info around release numbers, to answer some of the questions we're getting.

Canary might be available in less than a month.