Thunderbird/StatusMeetings/2011-01-04

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Current Release Schedules

Thunderbird 3.3 Alpha 2	Thunderbird 3.1.8
Code Freeze and build start: 14th Jan (tentative) Release: 20th Jan (tentative)	Code freeze: 18 Jan 23:59 L10n freeze: 18 Jan 23:59 Builds start: 19/20 Jan QA with builds start: 21 Jan Beta period starts: Week of 24 Jan Build 2 starts: 7th Feb Build 2 Beta period starts: 8th/9th Feb Final release: 1st March

Thunderbird Meeting Details :

• Tuesday, January 4, 2011 17:30 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.

Agenda

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

Friends of the Tree

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Thunderbird Development

For more details, see also the driver meeting notes.

Feature Work

Account Provisioner:

• Has been released!
• Blog post up
• Screencast up
• Extension in AMO

Pluggable Mail Stores (bug 402392): berkeley and maildir stores pass all mailnews xpcshell tests. Checking mozmill and mail xpcshell tests next.

Experiments

Thunderbird Conversations

• Shooting for another release Thunderbird Conversations, maybe before Christmas with mostly bugfixes in, or maybe next year.

Trunk (Miramar) Development

• Landing OmniJAR today
• Active branches.
• Next Alpha: Early January.
• Help on fixing blockers would be very useful and appreciated, see this list of higher priority bugs.
• blocking criteria :
  • Alpha 1 -> Serious usability issues.
  • After -> not real criteria, regression/usability issues as usual.

3.2

• Decision on if/when we'll do 3.2 on hold until we progress account provisioning further.

Thunderbird Stability & Security Releases

• 3.0.11 and 3.1.7 released.
• Planning to shut down 3.0.x nightly builds after Wednesday 15th, now that 3.0.x is end-of-life.
• The wiki page on the process for landing security patches has now been made generic so that it applies to all security and stability branches.
• Bug Lists: 3.1

Major updates to 3.1

• 2.0.0.24 -> 3.1.7 Major Update refresh this week.

QA Updates

• Have a look at Thunderbird:Testing if you want to help :)

Support

(If you support Thunderbird or write documentation to help support Thunderbird, please subscribe to the tb-support-crew mailing list and briefly introduce yourself to the list)

Status Updates

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