Thunderbird/Driver Meetings/2010-12-14

Notetaker

dmose

Agenda & Notes

• Account Provisioning

• Trunk
  • Currently starting to think about what we want to get into 3.3x and planning around that.
  • Next alpha will be early January.

• Stability & Security Releases: 3.1.x and 3.0.x
  • 3.1.7 and 3.0.11 released.
  • End of life for 3.0.x nightlies planned for Wednesday, see mail list for details.
  • 3.0.11 -> 3.1.7 probably to be unthrottled before Christmas, depending on what uptake is like.
  • Ubuntu is currently upgrading users from 3.0.x to 3.1.7.
  • 2.0.0.24 -> 3.1.7 refresh this week.

• Anti-Virus Vendors
  • Trend Micro interested in whitelisting mechanism for executables. Will be pushing Firefox to flesh out more details of what this is.
  • (outstanding) Standard8 planning to set up mailing list to inform partners, who have sounded receptive in initial discussions.
    • Need to think more around what MoCo have said, and how it affects what we want.

• Advertised Major Updates background
  • 3.0 -> 3.1.x:
    • 11th Aug @ 10%, 13th Aug @ 25%, 25th Aug completely unthrottled.
    • Throttled and unthrottled at various times to according to releases.
  • 2.0 -> 3.1.x:
    • 18th Aug @ 10%, 31st Aug @ 25%, 28th Oct completely unthrottled
  • Consider using more aggressive upgrade text on old 2.0.0 version start pages
  • % ADUs across each build:

Date	2.0	3.0	3.1	Notes
11 Aug	47.7	19	33.2
30 Aug	40.5	15.7	43.8
7 Sept	34.1	13.1	52.2
13 Sept	30.7	12.7	56.6
20 Sept	28	12.7	59.3
27 Sept	25.8	12.5	61.7
4 Oct	24.3	10.6	65
11 Oct	22.8	9.7	67
18 Oct	22.0	9.1	68.4
25 Oct	20.8	8.7	70.5
1 Nov	17.7	8.3	73.9	ADUs were down (Europe on Holiday Low/weekend figures tend to have lower 2.0 ADUs. The day after was 18.8% on 2.0.
8 Nov	18.1	8.3	73.5	Suspect rise is due to the fact we've got "full" ADUs this week.
15 Nov	17	8.1	74.9
22 Nov	16.5	7.6	75.9
29 Nov	15.9	7.2	76.9
6 Dec	15.3	6.9	77.3
13 Dec

• Still users moving across but slowing down. 3.1.7 will "refresh" offer for those who said later, so hopefully we'll get some more people moving across.

• Conversion funnel