Thunderbird/StatusMeetings/2011-07-05
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Thunderbird Meeting Details :
- Tuesday, June 28, 2011 16:30 UTC (9:30am Pacific, 12:30pm Eastern)
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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
- No nominations this week.
Thanks to our Friend of the Tree. When adding someone to this section, please get their T-Shirt size 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
- Blake’s on holiday this week, so no updates.
OpenSearch
- Blake’s on holiday this week, so no updates.
Experiments
Thunderbird Conversations
- Protz has just released a new version (2.0.3) – please give it a try!
- See release announcement here.
Compose in a tab
Account Summary
Ubuntu Unity Integration
- De-RDF’ing and address book extending patches have landed! Big thanks to bienvenu, jcranmer and Standard8 for their patience and assistance on those patches.
- Canonical seems to be doing a good job of cleaning up CD space. It’s starting to look less and less like space will be an issue.
- Demonstrated read capability to Allison Randal and Jason Warner from Canonical last week, and seemed to go over nicely.
- I haven’t been able to talk to Jason Warner yet for the official yay/nay, but Allison says that we seem to have passed our June 30th status check, and should be good to continue the project.
- Hacking on EDS write capability at the moment
- Messaging Menu and Unity Launcher addons have landed in Ubuntu PPAs, and we’re already getting good feedback.
Schedule and Progress
Thunderbird 5 (Miramar)
- Currently doing throttled major updates as we keep an eye out for any stability issues. Should be opening it up later this week.
- Miramar nightlies have been stopped, still working on redirecting users, should be done this week.
Thunderbird 6
- Earlybird is the name for the Thunderbird builds on the Aurora channel
- Merge date to beta channel – today.
- We will start looking at automated compatibility bump this week.
- Bugtracking query page
Thunderbird 7
- Currently on comm-central.
- Merge date – feature & string freeze – today.
- Big thank you to patch writers, reviewers, and landers!
- Bugtracking query page
Thunderbird 8
- Starting up once Thunderbird 7 moves over to Earlybird.
- When landing patches in trunk, make sure to set the milestone in the bug to the correct version of Thunderbird that you’re landing in.
- And if you’re landing in branches, make sure to set the status-thunderbirdX flag to ‘fixed’ (where X is the Thunderbird version number you’re landing in)
Thunderbird 3.1.x
- Firefox have scheduled the next 1.9.2 release for August 16th.
- Bug Lists: 3.1
Extension of the week
- Enigmail :
- Lets you digitaly sign and encrypt decrypt emails usinge the OpenPGP standard
- Let’s you manage your keyrings
- Has nightly versions of users of Nightlies of Thunderbird
QA Updates
- Worked on release.
- Will do some community work this coming week.
Marketing Updates
- PR Update: A lot of good coverage on Tb5 – some representative articles – Lifehacker, zdnet, Ars Technica
- Thunderbird 5 release.
- www.mozilla.org/thunderbird new web site. Still a few more pieces to move over to mozilla.org domain.
Next
- Conversion funnel for Tb5
- Scoping out Test Pilot
Infrastructure Update
- Nothing exciting this week.
- Next week, Gozer heads to work Mountain View.
- Has started playing with channel-switching capability for Thunderbird.
Build / Release Update
- Bug 666535 – Offer nightly users on Miramar a minor update to the Aurora builds – Almost ready.
- Due to Bug 666945, nightly updates have longer build ids.
- Thunderbird 3.1.11->5.0 throttling set to 10%
- Scheduled power outage went smoothly
- Thunderbird 6 beta build this week
- Thunderbird 7 going onto Earlybird channel today
Web Update
- We’re working on a channel switcher page like Firefox’s for promoting the different update channels. Should be out in next 2 weeks, hopefully.
- Sancus is out on holiday
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)
- 1478 new support topics (1675 last week) – Media:27June-3July2011Community_stats_for_Mozilla_Messaging.png
- Thunderbird 5 Support Issues – a few not so minor issues found so far, but no new major issues
- See this week’s Support Appendix for full Get Satisfaction metrics and other support details
- DRAFT Thunderbird 6 User Features Page for TB 6 docs
Lightning Updates
- Burning at the moment.
- A patch that removed some debug messages seems to have shifted some timing somewhat, and revealed an underlying problem.
- Symptoms: random alarms that cannot be dismissed.
- The debug messages are being put back for now, while the underlying problem is being diagnosed.
- Today Pane is malfunctioning. Hopefully this is just fallout from the debug messages patch.
- There’s a Windows crash that also needs fixing. Again, hopefully this is just fallout from the debug messages patch.
- If someone has cycles to help out with patching, testing, or reviewing, that’d be much appreciated! Fallen will ping people this week for help.
- Hope to have a release out ASAP. This week, hopefully.
- A patch that removed some debug messages seems to have shifted some timing somewhat, and revealed an underlying problem.
- The AMO page for Lightning needs some polish. Some of the writing needs an overhaul – there was a line about “If you don’t read the release notes, you’ll always have data loss”. This line has been fixed, but the whole thing needs work.
- Roland will be working with Fallen on this
Status Updates
See the Mozilla Status Board for status updates specific to developers.
Roundtable Highlights
- Why was the Firefox channel-switcher pulled?
- They weren’t quite sure what they wanted, and it didn’t seem discoverable enough.
- Since different versions of Firefox can be installed side-by-side, they decided they didn’t need it.
- There’s a blog post about it somewhere, if you search around. Here’s the bug that removed the channel-switcher.
- Let’s try to do a better job next time of making sure our add-on developers aren’t left on the platform when the train leaves the station.