Thunderbird/StatusMeetings/2010-07-20

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Current Release Schedules

Thunderbird 3.2	Thunderbird 3.1.1	Thunderbird 3.0.6
To Be Announced	Relbranch opens: June 24 Code & L10 freeze: July 13 Builds start: July 13 QA with builds start: July 14 Beta period starts: July 15 Final release: July 20	Relbranch opens: June 18 Code freeze: July 1 L10n freeze: July 1 Builds start: July 1 QA with builds start: July 2 Beta period starts: July 13 Final release: July 20

Thunderbird Meeting Details :

• Tuesday, July 20th, 16:30 UTC (9:30am Pacific, 12:30pm Eastern)
• How to dial-in

Remember to press *1 to unmute yourself before talking!

Agenda

• Who’s taking minutes? –> Standard8
• Minute taking Schedule. Talk to davida for schedule changes/additions.

Action Items

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!

• New Friend of the Tree t-shirt grey but also coming in a Stone blue.

Conversion Funnel (Priority 0 side project)

• Funnel Cake 2 next week, looking to do a German version as well.
• Conversion #’s after 3 months shows us at 78% retention.
• ISPDB conversion is steady at 30-39%. Top missing domains: secureserver.net, psmtp.com, ocn.ad.jp, rr.com, at.net, ovh.net, aon.at, go2.pl, virginmedia.com, netease.com.

Thunderbird Development

Feature Work

• Pluggable store (maildir) is making progress – working through unit test failures now
• Mail account provisioning development has started, with a repo at http://hg.mozilla.org/users/bwinton_latte.ca/accountprovisioner/ Feedback/suggestions/pre-code-reviews welcome.

3.2

• Initial tb-planning thread, quick summary:
  • 3.2 based off a comm-1.9.2 with mozilla-1.9.2 with limited back-ported features and fixes.
  • Would allow some API changes (many for extensions benefit) and string changes.
  • Next trunk release would be after FF 4 ships, possibly as little as one month, depending on what state our trunk is in, features landed etc.

Major updates to 3.1

• Expecting to push prompted major updates to TB 3.1.1.
  • Initial 3.0.6 -> 3.1.1 push planned for 27th July.
  • Initial 2.0.0.24 -> 3.1.1 push planned for 3rd August.

Thunderbird Stability & Security Releases

• Releasing TB 3.0.6 and 3.1.1 the same time as FF 3.6.7
• Bug Lists: 3.1, 3.0

Experiments

• Messaging Add-ons
  • Mailing List Manager released
• Sent out list of current experiments to tb-planning
  • https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/tb-planning/2010-July/000377.html
• Add-on experiment planned for release next week

QA Updates

• working on 3.0.6
• working on 3.1.1
• Usage of [tb-qa] in subjects to flag messages on mdat

Marketing Updates

• PR Update: Mozilla Bug Bounty increase to $3k from $500, Mozilla Explains the Reason for Releasing Experimental New Features as Add-ons
• Tb Stats: 5.4MM ADUs w/ 12% on latest release, steady 75k+ downloads
• Tb 3.1.1/3.0.6 announcements and follow-ups
• Tracking Mozilla Newsletter program
• New t-shirts (grey/stone blue), testing out embroidered products (hats,shirt), and other logo products (bags, stickers)

IT update

• Thunderbird 3.0.6
• Thunderbird 3.1.1
• New builders on : Linux + Linux64
• TryServer progress

Documentation

• contacted local universities and technical schools that have tech writing programs regarding giving a talk in the autumn
• practicum student (Mike) starting today
• new Thunderbird FLOSS Manual (FLOSS Manuals discussion list archive)
• Summit loose ends / general catch-up (MDC / MCD; Doccelerator / Skywriter; etc)
• update Global Search article, bug # 577484

Support

1. 3.1 Support Issues – nothing really major so far, seems to be better than 3.0.x – please add your support issues to the Discussion page of this wiki page still a work in progress
2. still assimilating lessons of #moz10 – amazing contributors and technology
3. looking forward to working with Jen’s intern on Improving SuMoMo
4. See this week’s Support Appendix for full Get Satisfaction metrics and other support details – welcome back to GS contributor Michael Pasek!

Lightning Updates

Status updates

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

Roundtable Highlights

• Trunk maintenance
  • Getting too difficult/lots of maintenance to keep open – too much non-libxul build bustages
  • Proposed route for trunk:
    1. Go for the libxul option 2 asap.
       • We know we’re going to libxul
       • It will fix the current bustage, and protect us from any more non-libxul versus libxul
       • Support shared builds as a lower priority option – developers can back up to a working version, but tree can remain open.
    2. Let the work that is being done on external API finish
       • because I can see devs, and maybe linux distros, wanting this.
    3. Do some performances tests of internal & external APIs.
    4. Make decision on which to ship with Thunderbird trunk.

Attendees