Thunderbird/StatusMeetings/2010-09-14

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Thunderbird Meeting Details :

• Tuesday, September 14th, 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? –> clarkbw
• 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!

• Hiroyuki Ikezoe for all the good work on the mapi component

Conversion Funnel (Priority 0 side project)

• Prelim numbers for Funnel Cake 2 give us a 12.8% conversion rate up from 10.8% from Funnel Cake 1. Numbers look good/reasonable in comparison to last time. There are 35% more users in the sample due to the addition of Germany. Still gathering more data, will have a full two weeks of data starting tomorrow, can begin measuring retention rate.
• 43.8% success rate w/ ISPDB. Top 11 misses: psmtp.com, ocn.ad.jp, cox.net, aon.at, one.com, interia.pl, netease.com, ntlworld.com, telia.com, shaw.ca, outlook.com.

Thunderbird Development

Feature Work

Account Provisioner:

• Coding basically on hold until the APIs are delivered.
• Discussion about the web service portion should occur this week.

Pluggable Stores

• Working through unit tests – we pass up to the middle of the imap tests

Experiments

• MuteThread screencast & written collateral ready; awaiting posting

3.2

• Flags now set up
• 3.2 Branch on hold until account provisioning schedule is clearer.
  • Will bump trunk to 3.3a1pre in the meantime to reflect bugzilla flags.

Trunk Development

• Libxul work progressing. bug 585947 is the tracker but bug 394502 has the latest.
• Help on fixing up trunk welcome, see this list of higher priority bugs.
• jit now turned on again for chrome.

Thunderbird Stability & Security Releases

• A few issues (bug 594699, bug 592592, bug 592601 found in 3.1.3/3.0.7 are being investigated, and we are expecting a quick-release to resolve those issues.
• Bug Lists: 3.1, 3.0

Major updates to 3.1

• Now over 55% of users on TB 3.1.x, gaining about 2.4M ADUs since we started offering major updates on 11th August.
• Major updates for 3.0.x users have been paused as a result of the 3.0.7 release and also whilst we’re sorting out the issues in 3.0.7.

QA Updates

• Followed up on releases
• Ongoing bugzilla work – many thanks to the contributors
• Our Announcement mailing list, will be used for 3.next testing.
• Crash stats of prior week

Marketing Updates

• Press Update: About 50+ mentions for Thunderbird 3.1.3 update 1, of note – Yahoo Mail to introduce a new Minty interface to support iPad/Android interfaces 1.
• ADUs: 6MM ADUs, 56% on Thunderbird 3.x, still around 100k downloads a day from 80k to 130k downloads a day this week.
• Monitoring support issues through press.
• Put together audit/site map for next version of web site to coordinate w/ MoMo upgrades. Working on schedule next.

IT update

• Thunderbird 3.0.8 / 3.1.4 : Flawless builds
• Buildbot 0.8
  • Linux & Mac slaves all upgraded
  • Win32 almost ready to roll
  • Upgrading the master is next

• Firewall Issues

Documentation

Support

1. 830 new support topics, back to normal levels after labour day!
2. 3.1 Support Issues – issue of the week is startup crash seemingly caused by corrupted compreg.dat (not sure if this is a major problem since only 1000 crashes out of 1.7 million users), bug 594699, GS Company Update, GS Canonical Topic
3. simplified SuMoMo home page with top problems only – draft page on trunk, will update production Tuesday night, SuMoMo Tasks Etherpad
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

GSOC Project Roundup

Daniel’s QuickLook Support and Ian’s Improved Attachment Handling:
http://weblog.latte.ca/blake/gsoc2010.html

Attendees

bwinton,bienvenu,dmose, standard8, clarkbw,roland,gozer,tsk