Thunderbird/StatusMeetings/2010-11-09

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Current Release Schedules

Thunderbird 3.3 Alpha 1	Thunderbird 3.1.7 & 3.0.11
To Be Announced	Code freeze: 23rd Nov 23:59 L10n freeze: 23rd Nov 23:59 Builds start: 24th Nov QA with builds start: 29th Nov Beta period starts: 30th Nov Final release: 9th Dec

Thunderbird Meeting Details :

• Tuesday, November 9, 2010 17:30 UTC (9:30am Pacific, 12:30pm Eastern)
• How to dial-in

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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? --> roland
• Minute taking Schedule. Talk to davida for schedule changes/additions.

Friends of the Tree

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Conversion Funnel (Priority 0 side project)

• Funnelcake 3 released this morning. Should have some prelim numbers by tomorrow.
• ISPDB: 35% conversion rate; top 10 domain misses: ocn.ad.jp, netease.com, interia.pl, psmtp.com, aon.at, telenet-ops.be, 163.com, one.com, cox.net, netsolmail.net

Thunderbird Development

Feature Work

Account Provisioner:

• We're still waiting on legal stuff, and are using the time to polish.

Pluggable Mail Stores:

Experiments

• Up next: Thunderbird Conversations (formerly Gmail Conversation View). Currently ironing things out with clarkbw and andychung before cutting a 2.0 release. [protz]
• Updates for Mailing List Manager, Contacts on deck.
• Sync Add-on further out.
• On schedule to release an add-on a week for the next month or so

3.2

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

Trunk Development

• Starting 3.3 alpha cycle to get wider testing on trunk builds and major feature work.

Alpha 1

• Basically release what we have on trunk
  • Backend improvements
  • Add-on Manager and extension changes
  • Linux 64 bit and Mac 32/64 bit builds.
• Current blockers i.e.
  • Mac 64 bit builds
  • Buildbot configuration for trunk alphas

Post Alpha 1

• Aiming for frequent alphas, specifically to pick up fixes / features.
• Help on fixing blockers would be very useful and appreciated, see this list of higher priority bugs.

Thunderbird Stability & Security Releases

• Draft Schedule published, see above.
• Starting flagging bugs to be included in the next release, please see the bug lists.
• Bug Lists: 3.1, 3.0

QA Updates

• usual stuff
• slowly preparing testing round for Alpha1

Build / Release Update

• enabled concurrent release builds on our production buildbot
• adding release builders for trunk this week

Support

1. 567 new support topics down 13% (652 last week; this week is a bit down from normal)
2. Again, tb-support-crew mailing list for support contributors has been launched! If you support Thunderbird or write documentation to help support Thunderbird, please subscribe and briefly introduce yourself to the list
3. 3.1 Support Issues
4. 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.