Thunderbird/StatusMeetings/2011-08-23

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Thunderbird Meeting Details :

• Tuesday, August 23, 2011 16:30 UTC (9:30am Pacific, 12:30pm Eastern)
• How to dial-in

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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!

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

• bwinton sent mockups of the final flow to various third parties.
• bwinton doesn't have enough time to actually get the patch written on schedule, and so has asked Protz for help driving it home.

Schedule and Progress

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

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

Lightning Updates

Philipp has been very busy with exams, therefore work has slowed a bit, but:

• Summer of Code is now over, I'd say it has been a success for calendar!
• Tree situation has yet to be solved, I'm on it.
• Working on providing a build for Tb7.0b1

Status Updates

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