Thunderbird/StatusMeetings/2011-01-18

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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 17, 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? --> Usul
• 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:

• Contracts continue to be worked on.
• We're also working on making a version that's bundled with TB for wider testing.

Pluggable Mail Stores (bug 402392):

• berkeley and maildir stores pass all mailnews xpcshell tests.
• Fixed mozmill and mail xpcshell tests as well.

Experiments

Thunderbird Conversations

• Quiet week, more bugfixes, but no more bug reports, so the count is slowly going down.
• If you are checking out Thunderbird Conversations from GitHub, read this blog announcement.
• If you want to help, check out the bug tracker.
• Fallen has been looking into Lightning notifications support in Thunderbird Conversations.

Trunk (Miramar) Development

• Active branches.
• 3.3a2 cut, expecting to release on Thursday.
• Help on fixing blockers would be very useful and appreciated, see this list of higher priority bugs.
• blocking criteria :
  • Alpha n -> Serious usability issues.
  • After -> no real criteria, regression/usability issues as usual.

Thunderbird Stability & Security Releases

• 3.1.8 code freeze today
• Bug Lists: 3.1
• Crash fixes for the most of it

QA Updates

• Testing 3.3a2 in progress
  • Thanks to the volunteers who signed up.
  • To participate for our next testing round, subscribe to the Thunderbird-testers mailing list
  • We found some bugs, but nothing major yet.
• Joshua Cranmer As patches that fix most of the news uri handling in TB. This makes it possible to use news:// or nntp:// urls. To make sure we aren't regressing he's built a try build and need people using Thunderbird as a news reader to test these kinds of urls.
• Testing of 3.1.8 will begin once we have builds.

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)

1. SuMoMo move to Kitsune KB tracker bug 623690 - Andrei has test instance on his VPS, will have public staging test server on bug 623691
2. 555 new support topics (+17% from 474 last week; a little above normal levels)
3. 3.1 Support Issues
4. new Get Satisfaction (GS) contributors: rob_1864031 and claire_1703356 (Thanks! and Welcome!) - always looking for new GS and SuMoMo contributors, roland AT mozillamessaging.com OR #gsfn irc.mozilla.org nick:rolandtanglao
5. 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.