Thunderbird/StatusMeetings/2012-03-13

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Thunderbird Meeting Details :

• Tuesday, March 13, 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? –> Usul

• 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!

• Jean-marie alias “J2M” for his outstanding work on a Thunderbird FAQ in french

• Vincent alias “El Cameleon” for maintaining the French support forums and sumo articles.

Thunderbird Development

For more details, see also the driver meeting notes.

Feature Work

Test Pilot

Tabs on Top

• Being released today!

• In anticipation for possible questions regarding why we don’t have a toggle to move the tabs above and below the toolbar, see this explanation.

Big Files

• Landed in comm-central last night

• Still a bunch of known issues (see the Feature Page) – but we managed to squeak in, in time for string freeze.
• This feature is in a semi-working state. We’ll (unfortunately) have to be polishing and landing on EarlyBird. Expect improvements in the next few weeks.
• Dropbox has approved our application for a production-level app token, so users will be able to use their own Dropbox accounts.

Instant messaging

• Landed
  • Twitter is broken

  • Feedback wanted

Schedule and Progress

• Next merge date: Today

• For information about channels, point people here – http://www.mozilla.org/thunderbird/channel/

Thunderbird 11

• Releasing today

Thunderbird 12

• goes to beta

Thunderbird 13

• Goes to Aurora

Thunderbird 3.1.x & ESR

• Releasing 3.1.20 today

Extension of the week

• Mail summaries Replace the account central pane with nice data about your email usage.

QA Updates

• Releases

• Bugzilla
• We are having a test day next week – save the date, we’ll be testing the new FileLink feature

Marketing Updates

• Progressing on start Page redesign
  • Maybe next week – this month for sure
• Twitter account and facebook account

Infrastructure Update

Build / Release Update

• Thunderbird 11.0 final release planned for today

• Pushing 3.1.20 to mirrors
• Looking at signing using Firefox server (thanks rail)
• Working through issues with TB+FF integration on staging buildbot master (thanks standard8)

Web Update

• content for release 11

Documentation

• New article on generating HTML for signatures (needs to be moved into main sig article) (Ludo, thx for pointing contributor my way)

• New article on adjusting firewall settings for Thunderbird (draft)
• New summary article for release notes (http://support.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/kb/new-thunderbird)
• 18 contrib responses

Support

• Thunderbird 11 support day March 14th i.e. tomorrow!. – All welcome, please blog, retweet, etc.

(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)

1. 1434 new support topics (1285 one week ago ) – Media:Thunderbird-GetSatisfaction-stats-5-11March2012-2012-03-12_1353.png

2. Hot Issue from the Weekend – Yahoo bug blocked email sent by Thunderbird (flagged it as abuse) with bgcolor set to uppercase e.g. #FFFFFF WORKAROUND: use lowercase #ffffff – March 10, 2012 – fixed by Yahoo March 12, 2012
3. Thunderbird 11 Support Issues – Please edit and add any issues or bugs found in TB11 and tag them tb11
4. See this week’s Support Appendix for full Get Satisfaction metrics and other support details

Lightning Updates

• Lightning 1.3 release is approved and public on AMO

Status Updates

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

Roundtable Highlights

• The use of trunk to test new features
  • Last night we landed 2 new features on trunk

  • They’ll land on Aurora today
    1. No trunk coverage

    2. while we do ask trunk coverage for fixes
    3. shall we not set landing new features a week prior to the merge to Aurora ?

Attendees

Standard8, mconley, bienvenu, Usul, Roland, Florian, Anne-marie, Jenzed, sancus

Thunderbird/StatusMeetings/2012-03-06

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Thunderbird Meeting Details :

• Tuesday, February 6, 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? –> Bienvenu

• 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

For more details, see also the driver meeting notes.

Feature Work

Test Pilot

• Dev based tests in progress.

• Issues with add-on should be largely fixed up now, just testing a couple of remaining items.

Tabs on Top

Big Files

BigFiles Milestone 2 was built last Friday. Here is the link to the builds directory.

The list of fixed and remaining issues for this milestone is here.

In particular, note that BigFiles currently misbehaves when mixing normal and cloud attachment types, and when replying to messages that sent cloud attachments. Also, behaviour gets a little strange when there are multiple compose windows opened. Saving/restoring drafts is also broken.

Click-to-Web

Schedule and Progress

• Next merge date: 13 March

• For information about channels, point people here – http://www.mozilla.org/thunderbird/channel/

Thunderbird 11

• Final beta probably starting building on Wednesday, working on landing the last remaining issues.

Thunderbird 12

Thunderbird 13

Thunderbird 3.1.x & ESR

• The builds for 3.1.x and ESR have started today.

Extension of the week

• Webapp tab let’s you run some web apps in a Thunderbird tab.

QA Updates

• Some SOGO testing

• Bugzilla work

Marketing Updates

• New start page might not make it for next release

• Social Media – we have one FB page, one Twitter, and one Google+
• Putting together an enterprise solutions partner page
• Hit a record 8.1 million ADU

Infrastructure Update

Build / Release Update

• Rail and gozer released Thunderbird 11.0b4 last week

• Thunderbird 10.0.3esr, 11.0b5, 11.0 final, 3.1.20 builds this week
• Bug 730325 – Integrate Thunderbird build config with Firefox build config
  • Firefox + Thunderbird non-release builders combined in staging
• John has two talks scheduled at Confederation College about Mozilla and Thunderbird – tips welcome!

Web Update

• new locales hr & hy-AM ready for l10n

• new release notes format should be done EOD today

Documentation

• back from vacation – nothing to report from last week

Support

• Thunderbird 11 support day March 14th. – All welcome, please blog, retweet, etc.

(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)

1. 1285 new support topics (1180 one week ago ) – Media:27Feb-4March2012-Community_stats_for_Mozilla_Messaging.png

2. Thunderbird 10 Support Issues – Please edit and add any issues or bugs found in TB10 and tag them tb10
3. Thunderbird 11 Support Issues – Please edit and add any issues or bugs found in TB11 and tag them tb11 – Please try the 11 beta if you know how to backup your email and are technical enough to recover should you encounter any beta issues. We’d love your help to find bugs before TB11 is released 13 March 2012
4. See this week’s Support Appendix for full Get Satisfaction metrics and other support details

Lightning Updates

• Lightning 1.3b3 is building, will be available on AMO this evening. Fixes an issue with invitations and adds a toolbar button to open the unifinder.

• Lightning 1.2.2 will be released, containing these bugs
• AMO can only show one public version, which is always the latest version by upload date. We will run into problems after 1.3 is released and we need to release 1.2.3+. There is a possible workaround though, but it would be better to fix it in AMO.
• bug jsical is still a lot of work :( hoping to provide a test build in a week or two.
• Contributer working on a project to use mozmill to take Lightning screen shots and associate the elements with code locations.

Status Updates

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

Roundtable Highlights

Attendees

bienvenu mconley jb jhopkins roland blake fallen gozer standard8 ludo jenzed

Thunderbird/StatusMeetings/2012-02-28

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Thunderbird Meeting Details :

• Tuesday, February 28, 2012 16:30 UTC (9:30am Pacific, 12:30pm Eastern)

• How to dial-in

• Next merge date: 13 March

• For information about channels, point people here – http://www.mozilla.org/thunderbird/channel/

Thunderbird 11

• Few more tabs-on-top fixes

• Another beta coming this week

Thunderbird 12

Thunderbird 13

Thunderbird 3.1.x & ESR

• We now have tracking flags, more info and bug tracking links coming soon.

Extension of the week

• None

QA Updates

• Releases

• following up on bugmail

Marketing Updates

• Some pages updated for enterprise.

• Revised Facebook pages into one.

Infrastructure Update

Build / Release Update

• Focusing on Bug 730325 – Integrate Thunderbird build config with Firefox build config

• gozer training rail on release this week
• Beta build this week

Web Update

• completed AOL support in account provisioner, except for a blocking issue with oauth, waiting on AOL to resolve
  • AOL results removed from account provisioner for now

Documentation

Support

• Thunderbird 11 support day March 14th.

(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

1. 1180 new support topics (855 one week ago with the stats bug with 1 day missing again this week) – Media:GetSatisfaction-Thunderbird-Stats-20-26Feb2012-2012-02-27_1002.png – stats missing for 1 day again this week!

2. Thunderbird 10 Support Issues – Please edit and add any issues or bugs found in TB10 and tag them tb10
3. See this week’s Support Appendix for full Get Satisfaction metrics and other support details

Lightning Updates

• Still working on libical javascript implementation.

Status Updates

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

Roundtable Highlights

Attendees

Thunderbird/StatusMeetings/2012-02-21

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Thunderbird Meeting Details :

• Tuesday, February 21, 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? –> mconley

• 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!

• Thomas Düllmann has done a terrific job of overhauling the keyboard shortcuts article in the Knowledge Base. A contributor since 2007, this is the latest of many valuable contributions Thomas has made to Thunderbird. Thanks Thomas!

Thunderbird Development

For more details, see also the driver meeting notes.

Feature Work

Test Pilot

Tabs on Top

• Some late bugs are being tracked for tabs on top (bug 728309 and bug 719008). We’re going to try to land these for 11.

Big Files

• Currently on-track to hit our second milestone (see the Feature Page for the milestone breakdown)

Schedule and Progress

• Next merge date: 13th March

• For information about channels, point people here – http://www.mozilla.org/thunderbird/channel/

• Dealt with chemspill releases last week, releasing 10.0.2, 10.0.2esr & 3.1.19 by last Friday.

Thunderbird 11

• Released a beta last week, preparing for another beta this week.

Thunderbird 12

Thunderbird 13

Thunderbird 3.1.x & ESR

• Currently altering the esr flags to match Firefox, once this is done more information coming on how we’re tracking esr releases.

Extension of the week

• wwwtran will let you translate messages on the fly using webservices.

QA Updates

Marketing Updates

Infrastructure Update

Build / Release Update

• Thunderbird 10.0.2, 10.0.2esr, 11.0 beta 2 build 2, 3.1.19 released

• Some progress made on Bug 698843 – Build Thunderbird on Firefox infrastructure

Web Update

• fixed a couple website bugs, like bug bug 726478

• working on AOL support, ran into a blocker but Mercel fixed it relatively quickly
• Also working on update our release notes to the new-Firefox style in bug 727975

Documentation

• new MDN pages for Enterprise:
  • https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Thunderbird/Thunderbird_in_the_Enterprise

  • http://developer.mozilla.org/en/Thunderbird/Thunderbird_Enterprise_Tips
• drafts for TB 11
• drafts for install doc set that mimics Firefox
• FAQ regarding link activation after message composition

Support

(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

1. 855 new support topics (807 one week ago with the stats bug with 1 day missing) – Media:13-19Feb2012-Community_stats_for_Mozilla_Messaging.png

2. Thunderbird 10 Support Issues – Please edit and add any issues or bugs found in TB10 and tag them tb10
3. See this week’s Support Appendix for full Get Satisfaction metrics and other support details

Lightning Updates

Status Updates

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

Roundtable Highlights

Attendees

Thunderbird/StatusMeetings/2012-02-14

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Thunderbird Meeting Details :

• Tuesday, February 14, 2012 16:30 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.

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

Agenda

• Who’s taking minutes? –> roland

• 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 rebron@mozilla.com so that he can send them a shirt!

• Aceman for his high quality and high quantity work (29 patches since January 1!), nominated by Standard 8. Thank-you!

Thunderbird Development

For more details, see also the driver meeting notes.

Feature Work

Test Pilot

• looking to get a test pilot study running in a couple of weeks

Big Files

• We’ve reached our first milestone.

• Try builds were just respun to account for some packaging problems, and an issue in mozilla-central
• Monitor build progress here.
• Builds will appear here in a few hours.

Schedule and Progress

• Next merge date: 13th March

• For information about channels, point people here – http://www.mozilla.org/thunderbird/channel/

Thunderbird 10

• Released a 10.0.1 to fix a security issue and a couple of crashes (most notably an Outlook import crash)

Thunderbird 11

• Will be spinning an updated beta this week.

Thunderbird 12

Thunderbird 13

Thunderbird 3.1.x & ESR

• Released 10.0.1 ESR to match the mainline 10.0.1 release.

Extension of the week

Junquilla let’s you extend the Junk filtering of Thunderbird and create more than one Junk folder. It will also present stats including scores and why certain email was flagged as junk. A great aid in understanding Thunderbird’s junk system.

QA Updates

• Nothing to highlight

Marketing Updates

Infrastructure Update

Build / Release Update

• 10.0.1, 10.0.1esr released

• releasing 9.0.1->10.0.1 updates today
• 11.0 beta 2 build today

Web Update

• few fixes to account provisioner, l10n merging, etc last week

• compatibility bump for TB11 is ready, should go live Thursday

Documentation

• nothing to report (work week)

Support

(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

1. Thanks to Vincent aka cameléon, San, Matt Harris, Wayne Mery and others for updating the Etherpad and providing support input to the Thunderbird 10 support day on Thursday February 2 2012 – Next Support Day is the day after TB 11 is released i.e. currently March 14, 2012 since TB11 is currently scheduled for March 13, 2012

2. 807 new support topics (610 one week ago with the stats bug with 2 days missing) – Media:6-12February-Thunderbird-GS-stats-2012-02-13 1307.png – NOTE: last week’s numbers are too low because GS’s stats (again like the stats bug of two and four weeks ago!) failed to work for Tuesday of last week
3. Thunderbird 10 Support Issues – Please edit and add any issues or bugs found in TB10 and tag them tb10 – Hot issue for a few weeks has been Bug 723105 – Outlook Import crashes which was fixed along with some security issues in TB 10.0.1 which was released Sunday February 12, 2012
4. See this week’s Support Appendix for full Get Satisfaction metrics and other support details

Lightning Updates

Status Updates

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

Roundtable Highlights

• Going to try out using Vidyo for the meetings from next week
  • Voice dial-in will still be available.

  • Video option will be public
  • Please use headsets and mute yourselves when you join
  • Links etc will be posted ahead of next week’s meeting.

Attendees

Thunderbird/StatusMeetings/2012-01-31

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Thunderbird Meeting Details :

• Tuesday, January 31, 2012 16:30 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.

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

Agenda

• Who’s taking minutes? –> andreasn

• 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 rebron@mozilla.com so that he can send them a shirt!

Thunderbird Development

For more details, see also the driver meeting notes.

Feature Work

Test Pilot

Tabs on Top

• All seems well – this is moving on to beta!

Big Files

• The first traces of an account manager and UI for creating accounts from the compose window has landed on the feature branch

Account Provisioning

• Landed a fix that caused us to request XML from account providers twice.

Schedule and Progress

• Next merge date: March 6th

• For information about channels, point people here – http://www.mozilla.org/thunderbird/channel/

Thunderbird 10

• ESR and out today

Thunderbird 11

Thunderbird 12

Thunderbird 3.1.x

Extension of the week

• Total message replaces the header section of emails by a nice html5 view (instead of a xulview) giving it plenty of feature but making this extension not compatible with others.

QA Updates

• Had a major update testing event with low participation

• Worked on 3.1.18
• Worked on 10.0

Marketing Updates

• Thunderbird ADU 7.8MM

• Pushing out Thunderbird 10 web updates and announcements

Infrastructure Update

• In the process of moving MoMo infra to MoCo infra.

Build / Release Update

• Thunderbird 3.1.18 released

• Thunderbird 10.0 final, 10.0 ESR releases on deck

Web Update

Documentation

Support

(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

1. Thunderbird 10 support day is Thursday February 2 2012, this Thursday! We’d love your help to help the community find the hot TB10 issues, solve them and link to the issues on the February 2, 2012 Thunderbird Support Day Etherpad – Questions? Email rtanglao AT mozilla.com

2. 610 new support topics (1615 one week ago without the stats bug) – Media:Thunderbird-GS-Stats-23-29January2012.png – NOTE: last week’s numbers are too low because GS’s stats (again like the stats bug of two weeks ago!) failed to work for Monday-Wednesday of last week
3. Thunderbird 10 Support Issues – Please edit and add any issues or bugs found in TB10 and tag them tb10
4. See this week’s Support Appendix for full Get Satisfaction metrics and other support details

Lightning Updates

Status Updates

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

Roundtable Highlights

• Next week-end fosdem is going on in Brussels, belgium, if you are in Europe, drop by :
  • Usul will give a Thunderbird update Saturday 15:30

  • Protz will talk about making Thunderbird extensions Sunday at 12:30 something like this
  • The biggest pgp keysigning party will be going on sunday, just a few hours left to send your key and participate.

Attendees

Thunderbird/StatusMeetings/2012-01-24

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Thunderbird Meeting Details :

• Tuesday, January 24, 2012 16:30 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.

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

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!

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 rebron@mozilla.com so that he can send them a shirt!

Thunderbird Development

For more details, see also the driver meeting notes.

Feature Work

Test Pilot

Tabs on Top

• Fixed a bug that made buttons dragged beside the menubar have icons below text

• Andreas will soon be landing a patch that will make the transition between the tab selector and message tabs easier on the eyes.

Big Files

Account Provisioner

• A patch has been written for the XML double-download bug, and is just awaiting security review (hopefully sometime tomorrow)

Schedule and Progress

• Next merge date: January 31st, 2012

• For information about channels, point people here – http://www.mozilla.org/thunderbird/channel/

Thunderbird 10

• Releases on Tuesday, Jan 31

Thunderbird 11

• Going to beta next week

• Has Tabs on Top

Thunderbird 12

Thunderbird 3.1.x

Extension of the week

Google-contacts will let you share and sync your address book with your gmail account.

QA Updates

• We are having an update testday this coming Thursday read the Thunderbird:QA_TestDay:2012-01-26 details

Marketing Updates

• Recent articles 1, 2

• Thunderbird ADUs around 7.8MM w/ Germany, US, France, Japan, and Italy leading the way.
• Release work, Tb 10 and ESR announcements.

Infrastructure Update

Build / Release Update

• On-deck this week: Thunderbird 10.0b5, 10.0 final, 3.1.18, 3.1.17->10.0b4 major updates

Web Update

• working on TB10 content updates

• This week
  • Thunderbird ESR pages & website support for ESR builds

  • Getting ready for TB10 release
  • TB11 compatibility bump

Documentation

Support

(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

1. Thunderbird 3.1 -> Thunderbird 10 upgrade test day is Thursday January 26 2012, this Thursday! If you want to help, create a new TB profile, revert to TB 3.1 and test upgrading with us on Thursday. Love to see you there! The more testing we do on Thursday, the less Support issues we’ll have when TB3.1 is EOL’ed.

2. 1615 new support topics (542 one week ago) – Media:ThunderbirdGetSatisfactionMetrics16-22January2012-2012-01-23_1056.png – NOTE: last week’s numbers are low because GS’s stats failed to work for Monday-Wednesday of last week
3. Thunderbird 9 Support Issues – Please edit and add any issues or bugs found in TB9 and tag them tb9
4. Thunderbird 10 Support Issues – Please edit and add any issues or bugs found in TB10 and tag them tb10 – TB10 Release is next week, so backup up your Thunderbird profile, and try the TB 10 beta today if you have some time!
5. See this week’s Support Appendix for full Get Satisfaction metrics and other support details

Lightning Updates

Status Updates

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

Roundtable Highlights

Attendees

Thunderbird/StatusMeetings/2012-01-17

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Thunderbird Meeting Details :

• Tuesday, January 17, 2012 16:30 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.

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

Agenda

• Who’s taking minutes? –> bwinton

• 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 rebron@mozilla.com so that he can send them a shirt!

Thunderbird ESR

• Announced last Thursday, the Thunderbird Extended Support Releases will begin with Thunderbird 10.

Thunderbird Development

For more details, see also the driver meeting notes.

Feature Work

• Account provisioning has been delayed until TB 11 due to needing more technical information and more testing on the providers.

• Will be disabled on Beta for the next week or so.
• Will be re-enabled with the next merge to Aurora.

Test Pilot

Tabs on Top

• Currently investigating ways of making the stacked QFB and Gloda search input less confusing, visually

Big Files

• Nailing down UI; big pieces remaining:
  • Configuration UI

  • Conversion between regular and cloud attachments

Schedule and Progress

• Next merge date: 31st January

• For information about channels, point people here – http://www.mozilla.org/thunderbird/channel/

Thunderbird 10

• Working on resolving the last few tracker bugs. Another beta this week, maybe one more at the start of next.

• This release will form the basis of the ESR.

Thunderbird 11

Thunderbird 12

Thunderbird 3.1.x

• Now that the ESR has been announced, the EOL of 3.1.x will be 24th April 2012.

Extension of the week

Account Colors is a useful extension for people having more than one account, as each account is colored in a different color, so you know which one you are using (when reading or composing emails).

QA Updates

• Usual maintenance and testing

Marketing Updates

• Thunderbird ESR announcement

• Thunderbird ADUs back to 7.7 to 7.8MM a day led by Germany, US, France, Japan, Italy, Poland.
• Getting ready for Tb10, web pages and announcements.

Infrastructure Update

Build / Release Update

• Unthrottled major updates to Thunderbird 9.0.1

• Firefox RelEng ESR tracking work in bug 717106. Need an equivalent for Thunderbird.
• Continue work to build Thunderbird on Firefox infrastructure

Web Update

• Account Provisioner fun last week!

• Halfway through ispdb mail reviews, will be finishing them up after the meeting~
• all outstanding l10n stuff has been merged, ready for TB10 whenever

Documentation

Support

(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)

1. 542 new support topics (901 one week ago) – Media:ThunderbirdGSStats-9-15Jan2012-2012-01-16_1349.png – NOTE: these numbers are low because GS’s stats failed to work for Monday-Wednesday

2. Thunderbird 9 Support Issues – Please edit and add any issues or bugs found in TB9 and tag them tb9 – Hot issue last week: [of Rich Text or Spreadsheet results in plaintext instead of HTML in Locales that use a comma i.e. ',' as a Decimal Point.] WORKAROUND: change Decimal Point to a period i.e. ‘.’ – bug 714115 – fixed in FF11/TB11 and hopefully in FF10/TB10
3. See this week’s Support Appendix for full Get Satisfaction metrics and other support details

Lightning Updates

Status Updates

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

Roundtable Highlights

Attendees

Thunderbird/StatusMeetings/2012-01-10

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Thunderbird Meeting Details :

• Tuesday, January 10, 2012 16:30 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.

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

Agenda

• Who’s taking minutes? –> rebron

• 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 rebron@mozilla.com so that he can send them a shirt!

Thunderbird Development

For more details, see also the driver meeting notes.

Feature Work

Test Pilot

Tabs on Top

• Andreas, Paenglab and Florian have been doing an awesome job landing theme fixups

• We’ve been getting good feedback on tabs-on-top!

Big Files

Click-to-Web

• We need further definition and input from the community before moving forward on this.

• Project is on hold until further notice.

Schedule and Progress

• Next merge date: 31st January

• For information about channels, point people here – http://www.mozilla.org/thunderbird/channel/

Thunderbird 10

Thunderbird 11

Thunderbird 12

Thunderbird 3.1.x

Extension of the week

• Show all body parts Sometimes Thunderbird doesn’t show some attachments because the MUA that send it doesn’t respect standards. With this extension you’ll be able to see the attachment and even see it’s content if Thunderbird knows how to display the content.

QA Updates

• Working on Releases

• Usual bug and Test Case management
• Will give a talk in Madrid this Friday on QA and Thunderbird

Marketing Updates

• TB ADUs at 7.4MMM

• 1st Test Pilot study targeted for TB Beta users this week.
• Prepping for Tb 10.

Infrastructure Update

Build / Release Update

• Thunderbird 10.0b2 released

• Thunderbird 3.1.17->9.0.1 major updates released

Web Update

• Back from vacation, catching up with a *lot* of things

• Outstanding L10N bugs and ISPDB review requests.
• Kitsune analytics stuff
• TB Nightly page
• Lots of other stuff…

Documentation

• new article from contributor: Using Gmail to move messages

• keyboard shortcuts overhaul project (mainly contributor-driven – yay!)
• 8 significant contributions to KB pages
• MDN doc tracker (handy Bugzilla search tool for dev docs)

Support

(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)

1. 901 new support topics (1147 two weeks ago) – Media:Thunderbird-GetSatisfaction-2-8Jan2012-2012-01-09_1617.png

2. Thunderbird 9 Support Issues – Please edit and add any issues or bugs found in TB9 and tag them tb9 – Hot issue during the holidays: Folder panel has no content. JSON.parse: unexpected end of data Source File: chrome://messenger/content/folderPane.js – [bug 707329] – WORKAROUND: quit Thunderbird, delete folderTree.json, restart Thunderbird
3. Support Contributors, please add yourself to the Mozillians directory if you haven’t done so already.
4. Experimental twice a day Thunderbird support report showing trending topics, ISPs, mail providers, tags, anti-virus and active contributors at thunderbirdrobot.posterous.com. Unfortunately due to what seems like a bug in the posterous API it’s truncated (same report from another developer). Luckily I have an email backup which I can use to fix it. Help wanted with the code: i) email to Posterous script, ii) post to API Posterous script; contact rtanglao AT mozilla.com or send me a github pull request
5. See this week’s Support Appendix for full Get Satisfaction metrics and other support details

Lightning Updates

Status Updates

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

Roundtable Highlights

Attendees

standard8, Usul, rebron, jb, bwinton, mconley, jenzed, roland, mconley, jhopkins, sancus, bienvenu, philipp

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Thunderbird Meeting Details :

• Tuesday, January 3, 2012 16:30 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.

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

Agenda

• Who’s taking minutes? –> Usul

• 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 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

OpenSearch

Test Pilot

Some studies in the next week or two.

Tabs on Top

Big Files

Click-to-Web

Schedule and Progress

• Next merge date: 31st January

• For information about channels, point people here – http://www.mozilla.org/thunderbird/channel/

Thunderbird 9

• 9.0.1 issue with Windows XP not working in 9.0.0 because of a runtime not being installed.

• Postmortem will discuss this problem.

Thunderbird 10

• beta1 on the beta channel

• lightning should be available this week.

Thunderbird 11

• Plugable-store landed we need more testing landed on xmas day (24th).

Thunderbird 3.1.x

Extension of the week

• Sieve script editor. To manage sieve filters on your imap server. Not very user friendly but better than nothing.

QA Updates

• Catching up

• Hitting bug 629487 a lot today and – yesterday – making reading bugmail difficult

Marketing Updates

• Some good articles over the Holiday break: Windows Start Kit, Six Free Software packages, Best Email Client for Linux, New Year’s Resolution; articles around setting up a PC and being productive for the New Year

• ADUs at holiday levels 3.4MM to 6MM ADUs, should be back to normal in the next two weeks
• Tb10 beta launched before Christmas, getting ready for Tb10 final later this month.

Infrastructure Update

Build / Release Update

Web Update

Documentation

• Catching up

Support

Lightning Updates

• Need for 1.1.1 for windows dll issue. try to have it ASAP.

• Next is 1.2beta.
• Looking at triaging bugs.

Status Updates

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

Roundtable Highlights

Attendees

Usul, Jb, standard8, bienvenu, rebron