Thunderbird/StatusMeetings/2010-03-02

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Current Release Schedules

Thunderbird 3.1 beta 2	Lanikai Beta 1	Thunderbird 3.0.4
String/code freeze date: Tuesday 20th April <-- 3.1 string/feature freeze! l10n-mozilla-1.9.2 freeze date: Thursday 29th April Switch to comm-1.9.2 branch: Friday 29th April Build/relbranch date: Friday 29th April Ship date: Wednesday 5th May. (may slip if we can't get compact headers and folder pane counts updated to work with 3.1 b2 in time)	String/code freeze date: 2010-02-23 (Tuesday) l10n-mozilla-1.9.2 freeze date: 2010-03-01 (Monday) Build/relbranch date: 2010-03-02 (Tuesday) Ship date: 2010-03-09 (Tuesday)	Relbranch opens: March 2 Code freeze: March 16 L10n freeze: March 16 Builds start: March 17 QA with builds start: March 18 Beta period starts: March 19 Final release: March 30

Thunderbird Meeting Details :

• Tuesday, March 2nd, 17:30 UTC (9:30am Pacific, 12:30pm Eastern)
• How to dial-in

Agenda

• Who's taking minutes? --> asuth
• Minute taking Schedule. Talk to davida for schedule changes/additions.

Action Items

• Closed: Planning for a dry-run security firedrill build
  • Test Firedrill held
  • Went well. Mainly need to ensure we have back-ups in place so that we can hand-off to other people if necessary.
• Open: Go over Lehigh U feedback
  • kathy.f/wayne/clarkbw: to meet re: ue feedback space management/migration assistant (in progress)
  • dan.s/bwinton: to meet re: ispdb (mostly done, should finish this)
  • http://byob.mozilla.com need to explore to have something for Tbird. (rebron to followup with kevin)

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@mozillamessaging.com so that he can send them a shirt!

Thunderbird 3.1 (Lanikai)

• Priority 0 side project: conversion funnel
  • Lots of data points, website, download page, bouncer, ftp, start pages, autoconfig
  • Data doesn't seem to be consistent with itself
  • There is a lot of data available, we just need to look at it more closely
  • Figure out what's going on, like Firefox did before.
• Bug lists: Thunderbird:Thunderbird3.1:Status_Tracking
  • Still too many bugs on blocker list; dmose to make fast-pass Tuesday
• In the interim, critical feature work being driven from https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird:Thunderbird3.1:Driving_Scratchpad towards 3.1 string/feature freeze of Tuesday, March 23 (3 weeks from today)

Lanikai Alpha 1

• Still not enough users.
  • metrics report wasn't taking A1 into account; fixed: ~100 -> ~1000
  • rebron to drive separate trunk page (did this happen?)

Lanikai Beta 1

• Standard8 is driving the end-game
• Waiting on l10n changesets (sipaq)
• Code freeze happened last Tuesday
• Build should start today
• Signed build should be available this Wednesday

• String/code freeze date: 2010-02-23 (Tuesday)
• l10n-mozilla-1.9.2 freeze date: 2010-03-01 (Monday)
• Build/relbranch date: 2010-03-02 (Tuesday)
• Ship date: 2010-03-09 (Tuesday)

Lanikai Beta 2

• Critical feature work currently on track, moderate risk (unknowns, conversion funnel work) for Tuesday, March 23 (3 weeks from today)

• String/code freeze date: Tuesday 20th April <-- 3.1 string/feature freeze!
• l10n-mozilla-1.9.2 freeze date: Thursday 29th April
• Switch to comm-1.9.2 branch: Friday 29th April
• Build/relbranch date: Friday 29th April
• Ship date: Wednesday 5th May. (may slip if we can't get compact headers and folder pane counts updated to work with 3.1 b2 in time)

Thunderbird 3.0.x Developer Update

See Tinderbox for how to get your patches into 3.0.x

Thunderbird 3.0.2/3.0.3

• 3.0.2 released last Thursday, issue found, released 3.0.3 on Monday.

Thunderbird 3.0.4

• Gecko 1.9.1.9 schedule conflicts with 3.1b2. Need to look at what's going into 1.9.1.9.
• Expect stability fixes plus a few more feedback/upgrade-focused fixes.

Security And Stability releases - where to help

• [Bug Lists http://hg.mozilla.org/users/bugzilla_standard8.plus.com/drivertools/raw-file/default/bugtracking/index.html?branch=3.0]
• Blocking Bugs: 3.0.4 needed
• Wanted Bugs
• Testing and verification of the fixed bugs

QA Updates

done :

• 3.1b1 litmus tests setup and testers ready
• qa'd 3.0.3 release builds
• 3.0.0 looks solid crash-wise - no new runaway crashes so far, but too early to rank topcrashes

To do :

• monitor 3.0.3
• QA 3.1b1 builds/release

Marketing Updates

• PR update: 2/23 articles on SpreadThunderbird
• Thunderbird 3.0.2 and 3.0.3 work and press/support monitoring.
• ADUs: 6MM total and 1.6MM on Tb3
• Driving funnel conversion. e.g. Firefox analysis here and here

IT update

• Build
  • Thunderbird 3.1a2 test firedrill
  • Thunderbird 3.0.2 release
  • Thunderbird 3.0.3 quick build + release
  • Updated Win32 builders to Version 24
• We are looking for a Build/Release Engineer!

Documentation

• new KB article: Newsgroup accounts (bug 537818)
• new KB article: Hotmail settings (bug 543862)
• updates to multiple articles based on user comments
• edit AOL FAQ
• general maintenance (list pages, cross-linking, bug triage, etc)

TODO

• Gmail help copy updates
• transfer more content from http://www.mozilla.org/support/thunderbird/
• autoconfig XML examples from Uni postmaster
• update Archive article from user comments
• bugs

Status updates

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

Roundtable Highlights

• Sid0 and Standard8 have been working on improving the failure reports on tinderbox, especially for crashes. A little bit more work and should be able to get crash stacks for MozMill tests on any platform if they occur. See Test Infrastructure Status for the current status.
• Standard8 created the Thunderbird Bugzilla Helper jetpack. Probably mainly of use to QA, but also useful for others.
• Johnathon created another Bugzilla Tweaks jetpack which interleaves all bug changes into the comment stream and is super helpful