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<small>[[Releases/Thunderbird_3.0a1|« Back to Thunderbird 3 Alpha 1 Release Page]]</small> | |||
'''[[Thunderbird/StatusMeeting/DialInInfo|Dial In Info]]''' has the Conference Call controls, IRC Chat, and Telephone information. | |||
== What went well == | == What went well == | ||
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* QA was quick! | * QA was quick! | ||
** Took 3 days, finding [[QA/Thunderbird3/TestResults/Alpha1|~20 bugs]]. | ** Took 3 days, finding [[QA/Thunderbird3/TestResults/Alpha1|~20 bugs]]. | ||
*** No showstoppers. | *** A day for Tiger 10.4 and Vista SP1 smoketests. | ||
*** A day for Linux and Leopard 10.5 smoketests. | |||
*** A day for XP SP2 smoketests & selected BFTs. | |||
*** No significant showstoppers found. | |||
** A substantial amount of stress on the QA folk(s), though nothing overwhelming. | ** A substantial amount of stress on the QA folk(s), though nothing overwhelming. | ||
** Bugzilla flags have to be disabled post-a1-release - {{bug|434956}} | ** Bugzilla flags have to be disabled post-a1-release - {{bug|434956}} | ||
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* Notified IT too late about need for MoMo svn up on production site | * Notified IT too late about need for MoMo svn up on production site | ||
** {{bug|433593}} | ** {{bug|433593}} | ||
* Issue found with QA testing download links | |||
** Linux bouncer links didn't work. | |||
** Pointed out and rectified immediately pre-official release. | |||
* Not much community involvement for alpha 1 testday. | * Not much community involvement for alpha 1 testday. | ||
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*** TB2 testcases were used instead. | *** TB2 testcases were used instead. | ||
** Now in progress - {{bug|431883}} | ** Now in progress - {{bug|431883}} | ||
* Tree held closed for ~2 weeks. | |||
** Do we need to understand the implications of various branching/tagging methods better? | |||
== Attendees == | |||
Latest revision as of 15:58, 27 May 2008
« Back to Thunderbird 3 Alpha 1 Release Page
Dial In Info has the Conference Call controls, IRC Chat, and Telephone information.
What went well
- QA was quick!
- Took 3 days, finding ~20 bugs.
- A day for Tiger 10.4 and Vista SP1 smoketests.
- A day for Linux and Leopard 10.5 smoketests.
- A day for XP SP2 smoketests & selected BFTs.
- No significant showstoppers found.
- A substantial amount of stress on the QA folk(s), though nothing overwhelming.
- Bugzilla flags have to be disabled post-a1-release - bug 434956
- Took 3 days, finding ~20 bugs.
- No RC2 needed.
- Alpha 1 was stable for an alpha.
- Whatever unstable implementations of code had already been backed out.
- Aug 2005 to end-April 2008 code -> 32 months since TB 2 codebase branched.
What could have gone better, and lessons learned
- Learned too late about branding subtleties.
- bug 430762 - Start page for Alpha/Beta builds
- bug 432188 - Swap Thunderbird to use www.mozillamessaging.com for in-product pages
- bug 433630 - Need new icon for Shredder builds
- bug 432756? - Prepare Thunderbird 3.0 Alpha 1 start page
- ...
- Notified IT too late about need for MoMo svn up on production site
- Issue found with QA testing download links
- Linux bouncer links didn't work.
- Pointed out and rectified immediately pre-official release.
- Not much community involvement for alpha 1 testday.
- Have to reach out more to the community besides existing efforts.
- nth10sd - My hands were tied on this; working on the testplan & almost nobody showing up to help QA testing.
- Had been in over-drive to finish up QA alone in this regard, but not overwhelmingly stressful though.
- We really should involve more of the community, even regulars popping by in the channel discussing certain areas of testing collaboratively would be helpful.
- Alpha 2 QA plan?
- No significant numbers of Litmus testcases for Thunderbird 3 testday
- Litmus admin was on leave, so the TB 2 testcases couldn't be copied in time.
- TB2 testcases were used instead.
- Now in progress - bug 431883
- Litmus admin was on leave, so the TB 2 testcases couldn't be copied in time.
- Tree held closed for ~2 weeks.
- Do we need to understand the implications of various branching/tagging methods better?