Thunderbird:QA TestDay:2012-01-26
Test Day January 26 th , 2012
With the release of Thunderbird 10 approaching and the fact that our ESR version of Thunderbird will be based on it. We need to test updates from 3.1.17 to 10.0b and make sure that we can catch any major errors. At the same time would like to document support issues so that our support is more efficient when people do the update in the next few weeks.
To do so we would like to have a test day focused on Updating from the latest 3.1 series (ie to date 3.1.17) to the latest 10 series (to date 10b4). And we would like participants to give us feedback and notify us of all the issues they might find while updating.
How to participate
- Run Thunderbird 3.1.17
- Change update the channel of your Thunderbird:
- stop Thunderbird
- In the Thunderbird install directory (or .app on mac) edit the defaults/channels.js and change the channel to "betatest"
- save the file
- start Thundrbird
- On Windows and Linux do a Help -> check for updates (Thunderbird -> check for updates on the mac)
- Apply the update
- verify that things that were working are still working
- Some extensions will not work - let us know which one
- File bugs in bugzilla for anything that doesn't work anymore and mark the bug dependent of bug XXX
- Join us on IRC (irc.mozilla.org, in #tb-qa - see below in Things to know how to join) on January the 26th 2012, and ask us any question and give us Feedback.
- Feedback will be consolidate for support purposes on an etherpad at
Things to known
We do not recommend that you use a production profile for these test, if you do - please make sure to back it up before starting the tests. Creating a test profile is documented here.
If You need any help just join us on irc.mozilla.org in #tb-qa (just click on this link) - and be a bit patient before we answer we don't monitor the channel every second nor minute.