Thunderbird/StatusMeetings/2010-12-07

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Current Release Schedules

Thunderbird 3.3 Alpha 2	Thunderbird 3.1.7 & 3.0.11
Code Freeze and build start: 14th Jan (tentative) Release: 20th Jan (tentative)	Code freeze: 23rd Nov 23:59 L10n freeze: 23rd Nov 23:59 Builds start: 24th Nov QA with builds start: 29th Nov Beta period starts: 30th Nov Final release: 9th Dec

Thunderbird Meeting Details :

• Tuesday, December 7, 2010 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? --> Ludo
• 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

• Eric Moore of MozillaZine for the Make TB 3.1 look like TB 2.0 MZ/MoMo collaboration and excellent, detailed about:support feedback
• Matt Harris of Australia for documenting Thunderbird FAQs and tweaks on his blog and in SuMoMo

Conversion Funnel (Priority 0 side project)

• Funnel cake 3 after 20 days gives us a 92% retention rate. Inline with Funnel cake 1 - 2 retention after same time period.

Thunderbird Development

For more details, see also the driver meeting notes.

Feature Work

Account Provisioner:

• Contracts almost done.
• Code done.
• Should be ready to release by next Tuesday.

Pluggable Mail Stores (bug 402392):

Experiments

• Thunderbird Conversations slated for release on 2010/12/07, with blog post on mozilla labs, screencast, updated AMO page, lotta screenshots, twitter announcement (please retweet), and the whole shebang. Expecting a lot of feedback! :protz currently slightly busy now, will continue bugfixes and improvements, for future alpha releases in sync with Thunderbird 3.3 alpha releases (gallery view, bugfixes, improved quick reply...).
• Updates for Mailing List Manager, Contacts on deck.
• Sync Add-on further out.

Trunk (Miramar) Development

• Active branches.
• Next Alpha: Early January.
• Help on fixing blockers would be very useful and appreciated, see this list of higher priority bugs.
• blocking criteria :
  • Alpha 1 -> Serious usability issues.
  • After -> not real criteria, regression/usability issues as usual.

3.2

• Decision on if/when we'll do 3.2 on hold until we progress account provisioning further.

Thunderbird Stability & Security Releases

• Doing a quick respin (build 3) to fix a regression that affects Theme add-ons.
• 3.1.7 and 3.0.11 to be released on Thursday.
• 3.0.11 is EOL for 3.0.x.
• Bug Lists: 3.1, 3.0

QA Updates

• Had the dupme event last week
  • 2 people showed up at the second session (and one found a duplicate !!)
  • Regular #tb-qa people at the first session
  • Nobody new at the last session
  • Notes and docs that need to be cleaned up are up at Thunderbird:Testing/Workshops#Past_events
  • Had a few more ideas of workshops
    1. How to use bugzilla ?
    2. How to gather stack traces and log files
    3. Getting started with mozmill
• The change from announced weekly event, 1 day in the week to more loosy 1 event per week didn't really work out - we will go back to one day event per week - need to communicate that and get it rolling.
• Should probably advertize extensions a bit more with what to test etc ...

Marketing Updates

• Press Update: going to push on conversion view more today eary article, should increase Miramar pickup
• Total ADUs: Thunderbird 2.x is 15% of total users, about 6.6MM total Thunderbird ADUs and holding steady with over 85k downloads a day.
• This week:
  • Add-on Con 2010 this Wednesday and Thursday, will demo all of our Labs add-ons

Infrastructure Update

• Buildbot 0.8 upgrade this week!
  • Thursday Decembedr 9th / 9am - 1pm Pacific
• New hardware is on site, waiting to plug it in
• SSL for Spreadthunderbird
• Mozilla Messaging organization now on GitHub

Build / Release Update

• Thunderbird 3.0.11/3.1.7
• Try server supports patches to non-comm-central repositories
• Virus scan automation

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. 423 new support topics +17% from last week (363 last week; this week is still a bit down from normal, American Thanksgiving lingering effect?)
2. 3.1 Support Issues
3. Congrats to Firefox launching Kitsune KB last week. Plan to switch SuMoMo to Kitsune KB in 1Q or 2Q2011. Wiki page and tracker bug coming soon!
4. Investigating Web Trends analytics for SuMoMo (not as detailed as Google Analytics on first glance e.g. missing country by country analytics)
5. about:support addon is now at 0.30 with condensed plain text output - Thunderbird support contributors: please give it a try. Thanks to sid0 for excellent work and code!
6. 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.