Thunderbird/StatusMeetings/2012-07-10

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Thunderbird Meeting Details :

Tuesday, July 10, 2012 16:30 UTC (9:30am Pacific, 12:30pm Eastern)
How to dial-in

Remember to use headphones and mute yourself when not talking

Feel free to ask questions in the meeting either by speaking up or by asking them in #maildev on IRC.

Other ways to get in touch with us can be found on our communications page

Agenda

Who's taking minutes? --> jhopkins
Minute taking Schedule. Talk to Standard8 for schedule changes/additions.
Note: this meeting is for interactive discussion. Feel free to ask questions!

Action Items

Friends of the Tree

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 abourcier@mozilla.com that she can send them a shirt!

Thunderbird Development

Feature Work

Test Pilot

Filelink (Big Files)

Waiting on code-drop from Box.com for their implementation
Waiting for next iteration of SpiderOak implementation
YouSendIt is returning malformed URLs in TB 14+. This makes them annoying to open when receiving Filelinks in TB. See bug 771132 (patch attached)

Instant Messaging

Google Summer of Code Projects

App Tabs for Thunderbird

Trung's having network difficulties today, so no voice/video update.
Been working on session persistence, so that pinned tabs remain pinned on a session restore.
Overview, Blog, bug 761727

Schedule and Progress

Next merge date: 16th July
For information about channels, point people here - http://www.mozilla.org/thunderbird/channel/

Beta Version

ESR

Extension of the week

QA Updates

Marketing Updates

working on the new start page.

Build / Release Update

Thunderbird 14.0b4 last week, 14.0b5 this week.
Building the next ESR this week as well as final TB 14.0. To be released next week.

Web Update

fixed a bug with false positives in the TB14 validator code
for whomever cares about Webtrends, we'll be changing our dcsid soon which means that stats will be in the general mozilla.org profile and the mozilla.org/thunderbird specific profile will remain an archive for existing stats.
reviewed a validator patch and an ispdb patch
started figuring out how to move our mozilla.org pages to bedrock(python back-end)

Documentation

Support

Next support day will be the day after TB 14 releases i.e. 1 day after TB14 release day July 17 which will be July 18, 2012 - It's fun and easy, just help us fill out our July 18, 2012 TB Support Day Etherpad

(If you support Thunderbird or write or translate documentation to help support Thunderbird, please subscribe to the tb-support-crew mailing list and briefly introduce yourself to the list)

Love to hear your feedback and suggestions about the future of support in a Community led Thunderbird (see also Thunderbird/Proposal:_New_Release_and_Governance_Model) . Please start a thread on the tb-support crew mailing list if you are a support contributor OR email rtanglao AT mozilla.com or ping me on irc at :rolandtanglao on #tb-support-crew
1163 new support topics (1285 one week ago ) - Media:2July-8July2012-GS-TB-1of2-Community_stats_for_Mozilla_Messaging.png ; Media:2July-8July2012-GS-TB-2of2-Community_stats_for_Mozilla_Messaging.png
Thunderbird 13 Support Issues
- Further issues? If so please edit the TB13 Support Issues page and add any issues or bugs found in TB13 and tag them tb13
See this week's Support Appendix for full Get Satisfaction metrics and other support details

Lightning Updates

Most Infrastructure Issues have been solved
Lightning 1.6 is currently building, 39 locales
GSoC Student is doing good work, will get a status update from him tomorrow.
Top priorities: Website, Mozmill tests, javascript ical library

Status Updates

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

Roundtable Highlights

Attendees

abourcier, bwinton, fallen, jb, jhopkins, mconley, rolandtanglao, standard8, kent james, andreas nilsson, florian, sancus