Thunderbird/StatusMeetings/2011-09-27
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Thunderbird Meeting Details :
- Tuesday, September 27, 2011 16:30 UTC (9:30am Pacific, 12:30pm Eastern)
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Agenda
- Who’s taking minutes? –> Standard8
- 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
- Protz is lining up to get this landed soon.
- Code is being developed here.
OpenSearch
- Still undergoing merge into core
- What’s left to do:
- Fix search engine providers
- Tests
Test Pilot
- Aiming to land this ASAP
- Blake has UX reviewed it, but still needs a little bit of work to land
- Standard8 will run it down this week
Experiments
Thunderbird Conversations
- Paused to concentrate on Open Search / Account Provisioner / Test Pilot
Compose in a tab
- Paused to concentrate on Open Search / Account Provisioner / Test Pilot
Account Summary
Paused to concentrate on Open Search / Account Provisioner / Test Pilot
Ubuntu Unity Integration
- thunderbird-couchdb landed in the Canonical archives a few days ago. Ubuntu One contacts are now available!
Schedule and Progress
- Next merge date: TODAY!
- For information about channels, point people here – http://www.mozilla.org/thunderbird/channel/
Thunderbird 7
- Releasing today.
Thunderbird 8
- Currently on: Beta (after today)
- Add-on compatibility bump information prepared, looking for this to happen soon.
- Expecting to start a beta build soon and release probably next Monday.
Thunderbird 9
- Currently on: Aurora (after today)
Thunderbird 3.1.x
- 3.1.15 releasing today.
- The 3.1 series is going to keep going while we discuss how to work with enterprise users. Once there’s a way forward there, we’ll close down the 3.1 branch.
Extension of the week
- Zindus An extension that let’s you synch contacts between Thunderbird’s Address book, Google mail and Zimbra servers.
QA Updates
- Worked on released.
- Worked on bugzilla.
- Thunderbird QA is now visible on QMO.
Marketing Updates
- Still at 7.2MM ADUs; top countries – Germany, US, France, Japan, Italy
- Press Update: a few articles ESR support, Use BCC Instead Add-on, blog post writeup
- Thunderbird 7.0 and 3.1.15 releases today
- Preview of Daily/Earlybird/Thunderbird t-shirts .pdf file
- Next: working on resourcing for a brand book/brand positioning for Thunderbird. See Firefox brand book example.
Infrastructure Update
- bug 688554 Spinning up 16 new minis in our colo, to replace the Vancouver ones.
- [delayed] New VMWare server for Win64, still coming soon.
- [delayed] Pushing out new Try server this week
Build / Release Update
- urgent work to bring up Mac minis in MPT colo to replace Vancouver minis (bug 688838). Testing this week. May require some closed tree time.
- fixed two automation bugs:
- 688687 – Tagging builds should be restartable
- 688995 – BumpFilePath() produces incorrect results when newVersion contains oldVersion
- Thunderbird 7.0 build/release
- Thunderbird 3.1.15 released
Web Update
- new version of kitsune this week
- compatibility bump for TB7 live no later than Thursday, TB8 bump live next week
- We’re looking into the possibility of getting Thunderbird onto nightly.mozilla.org
Documentation
- Knowledge Base:
- improved template documentation
- 3 significant article expansions from the community
- reported an Opera bug with conditional content on Knowledge Base
- 18 responses to (from us to them) to contributor inquiry form
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)
- 1625 new support topics (1769 1 week ago) – Media:19-25September2011-Community_stats_for_Mozilla_Messaging.png
- Thunderbird 6 Support Issues
- Thunderbird 7 Support Issues – Please edit and add any issues found in TB7
- Awesome number of new Get Satisfaction support contributors in the last 3 weeks, not sure why (jen’s contribute form work perhaps?) but love it! Welcome to new support contributors bernd_s, odinbc aka husveg, inoneear and sfhowes !
- See this week’s Support Appendix for full Get Satisfaction metrics and other support details
Lightning Updates
- Lightning release is probably better named 1.0b7, this gives us more time for testing the just pushed patches.
- We are on slashdot
- Google Summer of Code student Mohit seems to be sticking with us! Yay!
Status Updates
See the Mozilla Status Board for status updates specific to developers.