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.
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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!
Action Items
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
- JB has agreed to take over Project Management of the Account Provisioner so that Blake can focus on other things.
OpenSearch
Test Pilot
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.
Compose in a tab
Account Summary
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 8
Thunderbird 9
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
Marketing Updates
Infrastructure Update
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) (on vacation Mon-Wed last week so no report last week)
- 1640 new support topics (1591 2 weeks ago) - Media:22-28August2011Metrics.png
- Thunderbird 6 Support Issues
- 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
- See this week's Support Appendix for full Get Satisfaction metrics and other support details
Lightning Updates
Philipp's last exams are next week, after that: Lightning speed ahead ;-)
- Working on automatic beta releases together with Mark, tracking in bug 673089.
- Transplanted all needed changesets between comm-central, comm-aurora and comm-beta. These are now near to in sync and comm-beta contains everything needed to release a beta-beta.
- Working on getting trunk back to speed after ChromeWorkers were re-written bug 678343.
Previously proposed buglist from the discussion page is now on bugzilla, see the new needed-beta list, tentatively named so until its clear if we can make 1.0 for Thunderbird 7.
Status Updates
See the Mozilla Status Board for status updates specific to developers.