Thunderbird/StatusMeetings/2011-03-08

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Current Release Schedules

Thunderbird 3.3 Alpha 3	Thunderbird 3.1.8
Code Freeze and build start: 14 Mar 23:59 Release: 15 or 16 Mar	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, March 8, 2011 17:30 UTC (9:30am Pacific, 12:30pm Eastern)
• How to dial-in

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Agenda

• Who's taking minutes? --> rebron
• 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

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!

• Thomas Schmid for his great work on tab re-ordering and undo tabs on bug 468808.

Thunderbird Development

For more details, see also the driver meeting notes.

Feature Work

Account Provisioner:

Search Integration:

Experiments

Thunderbird Conversations

Little progress, worked on core patches to enable spellchecking in the Thunderbird Conversations quick reply instead.

Trunk (Miramar) Development

• Trunk closed due to regression in js engine. Probably only affects unit tests.
  • Aiming to re-open today to some extent, we'll either fix the issue or fix the mozilla-central revision to FF 4.0b12 (via buildbot).
• Alpha 3
  • Waiting to land a few patches, then cut later in the week and release this week or early next week.
• Beta 1
  • Looking at landing Account Provisioning for beta 1. Timescales still being discussed.
• Beta 2
  • Looking at landing OpenSearch for beta 2. Timescales still being discussed.
• New blocking policy drafted
• Currently working out next alpha/beta schedules.
• Help on fixing blockers would be very useful and appreciated, see this list of higher priority bugs.

Thunderbird Stability & Security Releases

• Thunderbird 3.1.8 being released today
• Bug Lists: 3.1

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. 763 new support topics (not sure why traffic is so high, last week 500) - Media:28Feb-6Mar2011-Community_stats_for_Mozilla_Messaging-1.png
2. Kitsune KB migration: [Project Plan], English Language KB Article Sprint this Tuesday and Wednesday,plan is to get localizers to start localizing on Friday
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.