{"id":585,"date":"2011-06-21T23:00:06","date_gmt":"2011-06-22T03:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/meeting-notes\/archives\/585"},"modified":"2011-06-21T23:00:06","modified_gmt":"2011-06-22T03:00:06","slug":"thunderbird-meeting-minutes-2011-06-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/meeting-notes\/archives\/585","title":{"rendered":"Thunderbird Meeting Minutes: 2011-06-21"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<h1 id=\"page-title\">Thunderbird\/StatusMeetings\/2011-06-21<\/h1>\n<hr>\n<div><span class=\"subpages\">&lt; <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Thunderbird\" title=\"Thunderbird\">Thunderbird<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Thunderbird\/StatusMeetings\" title=\"Thunderbird\/StatusMeetings\">StatusMeetings<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Thunderbird\/StatusMeetings\/2011-06-14\" title=\"Thunderbird\/StatusMeetings\/2011-06-14\">last meeting<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Thunderbird\/StatusMeetings\" title=\"Thunderbird\/StatusMeetings\">index<\/a> | <a class=\"new\" href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/index.php?title=Thunderbird\/StatusMeetings\/2011-06-28&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1\" title=\"Thunderbird\/StatusMeetings\/2011-06-28 (page does not exist)\">next meeting \u00bb<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<table>\n<caption> <b>Current Release Schedules<\/b><br \/>\n<\/caption>\n<tr>\n<th width=\"50%\"> Thunderbird 5.0 Final Beta <\/p>\n<th> Thunderbird 3.1.11<br \/>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td> ETA: this week<\/p>\n<td>\n<ul>\n<li> Builds start: 13 June\n<li> QA with builds start: 14 June\n<li> Beta period starts: 14\/15 June\n<li> Final release: 21 June\n<\/ul>\n<\/table>\n<p>\n<b>Thunderbird Meeting Details<\/b>\u00a0:\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.timeanddate.com\/worldclock\/fixedtime.html?year=2011&amp;month=06&amp;day=14&amp;hour=16&amp;min=30&amp;sec=0\" rel=\"nofollow\">Tuesday, June 14, 2011 16:30 UTC<\/a> (9:30am Pacific, 12:30pm Eastern)\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Thunderbird\/StatusMeeting\/DialInInfo\" title=\"Thunderbird\/StatusMeeting\/DialInInfo\">How to dial-in<\/a>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Remember to press *1 to unmute yourself before talking!<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Feel free to ask questions in the meeting either by speaking up or by asking them in #maildev on IRC.<\/p>\n<p>Other ways to get in touch with us can be found on our <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Thunderbird\/CommunicationChannels\" title=\"Thunderbird\/CommunicationChannels\">communications<\/a> page\n<\/p>\n<h2> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Agenda  <\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li> Who&#8217;s taking minutes? &#8211;&gt; <b>jhopkins<\/b>\n<li> <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/calendar\/embed?mode=agenda&amp;src=5m2lftdbbr6c3dr9s3foivs278%40group.calendar.google.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">Minute taking Schedule<\/a>. Talk to Standard8 for schedule changes\/additions.\n<li> Note: this meeting is for interactive discussion. Feel free to ask questions!\n<\/ul>\n<h3> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Action Items  <\/span><\/h3>\n<h3> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Friends of the Tree <\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Thanks to our Friends 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!\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Jim McCullough: author of <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.mozillamessaging.com\/docs\/2011\/05\/11\/community-contributions-ubuntu-and-thunderbird\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Thunderbird \/ Ubuntu guides<\/a>\n<li> Vincent (&#8220;cameleon&#8221;): contributions to the Knowledge Base, localization and support\n<li> Pasquale Dante for all the good work at dumping bugs.\n<\/ul>\n<h3> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Conversion Funnel (Priority 0 side project) <\/span><\/h3>\n<h3> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Thunderbird Development <\/span><\/h3>\n<p>For more details, see also the <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Thunderbird\/Driver_Meetings\/2011-06-21\" title=\"Thunderbird\/Driver Meetings\/2011-06-21\">driver meeting notes<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<h4> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Thunderbird:Feature_Work\" title=\"Thunderbird:Feature Work\">Feature Work<\/a> <\/span><\/h4>\n<h5> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Thunderbird\/Experiments#Account_Provisioner\" title=\"Thunderbird\/Experiments\">Account Provisioner<\/a> <\/span><\/h5>\n<p>No change since last week.\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> contracts w\/3rd party email providers progressing\n<li> security reviews\n<\/ul>\n<h5> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> OpenSearch <\/span><\/h5>\n<p>No change since last week.\n<\/p>\n<h4> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Thunderbird\/Experiments\" title=\"Thunderbird\/Experiments\">Experiments<\/a> <\/span><\/h4>\n<h5> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Thunderbird Conversations <\/span><\/h5>\n<p>Huge row of bug fixes, released and pushed b2 to AMO, waiting on more feedback before doing a last batch of bugfixes and release the final 2.0 version. All the major changes have been pushed to later to allow me to focus on polishing and stabilizing. Help is welcome, as usual\u00a0:-).\n<\/p>\n<h5> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Compose in a tab <\/span><\/h5>\n<p>Cleaned up and submitted a new version to AMO, hopefully approved this time (three rejections in a row). I think I&#8217;ll try to have it public and keep it &#8220;as is&#8221; before we reassess the priorities and how that fits in the larger plan.\n<\/p>\n<h5> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Account Summary <\/span><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li> New version up in <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=489999\" rel=\"nofollow\">bug 489999<\/a>.  Please test it out and provide feedback.\n<\/ul>\n<h5> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Ubuntu Unity Integration <\/span><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li> <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=652855\" rel=\"nofollow\">De-RDFing patch<\/a> is going through the final stages of review &#8211; hope to merge it soon\n<li> EDS contacts integration made some big strides last week in order to hit the &#8220;read-only&#8221; milestone for the end of the month &#8211; EDS contacts now:\n<ul>\n<li> appear in the auto-complete To\/Cc\/Bcc fields\n<li> are searchable\n<li> show photos for contacts\n<li> allow mailing lists\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<h4> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Schedule and Progress <\/span><\/h4>\n<h5> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Thunderbird 5 (Miramar) <\/span><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li> Remaining blockers resolved.\n<li> Releasing final beta today or tomorrow.\n<li> Add-on authors have been contacted about compatibility.\n<li> L10n is working on the web site updates.\n<li> Expecting to release next Tuesday, 28th.\n<li> Congratulations to Firefox 5 which was released today!\n<\/ul>\n<h5> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Thunderbird 6 <\/span><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li> Earlybird is the name for the Thunderbird builds on the Aurora channel\n<li> Earlybird builds have now been started and are <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/ftp.mozilla.org\/pub\/mozilla.org\/thunderbird\/nightly\/latest-comm-aurora\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">available here<\/a> (<a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/ftp.mozilla.org\/pub\/mozilla.org\/thunderbird\/nightly\/latest-comm-aurora-l10n\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">l10n<\/a>).\n<\/ul>\n<h5> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Thunderbird 7 <\/span><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li> Currently on comm-central.\n<li> Merge date &#8211; feature &amp; string freeze &#8211; 5th July.\n<\/ul>\n<h5> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Thunderbird 3.1.x <\/span><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li> Releasing 3.1.11 today.\n<li> Bug Lists: <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/hg.mozilla.org\/users\/bugzilla_standard8.plus.com\/drivertools\/raw-file\/default\/bugtracking\/index.html?branch=3.1\" rel=\"nofollow\">3.1<\/a>\n<\/ul>\n<h3> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Extension of the week <\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-us\/thunderbird\/addon\/quick-folder-move\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Quick Folder move<\/a> Extend the move context menu and let&#8217;s you type in the folder name. Very handy extension if\u00a0:\n<ul>\n<li> You move emails manually a lot.\n<li> You have a lot of folder in your accounts.\n<li> Shift-M opens the move-to menu even without the context menu\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<h3> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Thunderbird:Testing\" title=\"Thunderbird:Testing\">QA<\/a> Updates <\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li> Just did testing for 3.1.11 and follow up on 5.0\n<\/ul>\n<h3> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Marketing Updates <\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li> PR Update: <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.techradar.com\/news\/internet\/how-to-back-up-gmail-965855\" rel=\"nofollow\">How to Back up Gmail<\/a>, <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/229298\/cloud_services_vs_desktop_apps_what_fits_your_needs.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">PC World mention re: cloud vs. desktop apps<\/a>, <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/lifehacker.com\/5811787\/the-best-email-client-for-windows\" rel=\"nofollow\">Best Email Client for Windows<\/a>, several mentions on beta and rapid release\n<li> Thunderbird ADUs: in the 6.8MM to 7MM, may see a drop due to Summer activities however may offset with increase awareness through Firefox mentions.\n<li> Firefox released today, go check it out and join the festivities.\n<li> Website work, some final tune-ups with design.\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li> watching what the Firefox guys are doing today\n<\/ul>\n<h3> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Infrastructure Update  <\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li> <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=656049\" rel=\"nofollow\">bug 656049<\/a> <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/hg.mozilla.org\/comm-central\/rev\/0f79491664e9\" rel=\"nofollow\">c-c:0f79491664e9<\/a> client.mk can now invoke client.py for comm-central builds via <i>.mozconfig<\/i>\n<\/ul>\n<pre> mk_add_options CLIENT_PY_ARGS=\"--verbose --skip-venkman\"\n mk_add_options ALWAYS_RUN_CLIENT_PY=1\n<\/pre>\n<p>This can be directly invoked as <i>make checkout<\/i>, or implicitely whenever using make <i>some-target<\/i> when ALWAYS_RUN_CLIENT_PY is set.<\/p>\n<p>Coming to Try Server soon&#8230;\n<\/p>\n<h3> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Build \/ Release Update <\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li> Thunderbird 5.0b2 build 1 today\n<li> Thunderbird 3.1.11 release today\n<\/ul>\n<h3> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Web Update <\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li> webpage is moved and functioning on mozilla.org stage. The homepage and in-product pages are done, other parts that don&#8217;t need l10n will be done by the end of this week.\n<\/ul>\n<pre>* <a class=\"external free\" href=\"http:\/\/www-stage.mozilla.org\/en-US\/thunderbird\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www-stage.mozilla.org\/en-US\/thunderbird\/<\/a>\n* <a class=\"external free\" href=\"http:\/\/www-stage.mozilla.org\/en-US\/thunderbird\/5.0\/start\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www-stage.mozilla.org\/en-US\/thunderbird\/5.0\/start<\/a>\n* <a class=\"external free\" href=\"http:\/\/www-stage.mozilla.org\/en-US\/thunderbird\/5.0\/whatsnew\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www-stage.mozilla.org\/en-US\/thunderbird\/5.0\/whatsnew<\/a>\n<\/pre>\n<ul>\n<li> localization is in progress\n<li> met with moco webdev\/engagement to discuss bedrock, the Django rewrite of mozilla.com\/org\n<li> Fixed AMO bug to add Thunderbird collection for the discovery pane\n<\/ul>\n<h3> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Documentation <\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li> new KB article: <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/support.mozillamessaging.com\/en-US\/kb\/how-use-virtual-card-vcard\" rel=\"nofollow\">How to use virtual card (vCard)<\/a>\n<li> more work on <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/support.mozillamessaging.com\/en-US\/kb\/new-thunderbird-5\" rel=\"nofollow\">New in Thunderbird 5<\/a> KB article\n<li> ongoing integration of Thunderbird into Mozilla sites (<a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/12DQMcE3ZBsiCYGe8IR4aAKu8rwgCt8YS1_s7vfPVE2I\/edit?hl=en_US&amp;authkey=CNaBh-oC\" rel=\"nofollow\">tracking document<\/a>)\n<li> contributor engagement (boilerplate text for resolved GS issues, rework HOWTO pages on kitsune)\n<\/ul>\n<h3> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Thunderbird\/Support\" title=\"Thunderbird\/Support\">Support<\/a> <\/span><\/h3>\n<p>(If you support Thunderbird or write or translate documentation to help support Thunderbird, please <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/mail.mozilla.org\/listinfo\/tb-support-crew\" rel=\"nofollow\">subscribe to the tb-support-crew mailing list<\/a> and briefly introduce yourself to the list)\n<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li> 1312 new support topics (1332 last week) &#8211; <a class=\"internal\" href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/images\/1\/13\/13-19June2011-Community_stats_for_Mozilla_Messaging.png\" title=\"13-19June2011-Community stats for Mozilla Messaging.png\">Media:13-19June2011-Community_stats_for_Mozilla_Messaging.png<\/a>\n<li> <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/developer.mozilla.org\/devnews\/index.php\/2011\/06\/02\/thunderbird-beta-now-available\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Thunderbird 5 Beta 1 is out<\/a>! <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/support.mozillamessaging.com\/en-US\/forums\/knowledge-base-articles\" rel=\"nofollow\">Would love some help with contributors to write some knowledge base articles<\/a>. No experience required, just a copy of Thunderbird and the ability to write in English or translate. We&#8217;ll polish up your writing and make it sing!\n<li> <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Thunderbird\/Thunderbird5.0SupportIssues\" title=\"Thunderbird\/Thunderbird5.0SupportIssues\">Thunderbird 5 Support Issues<\/a> &#8211; not yet up to date, but nothing major at first glance (<a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/gist.github.com\/1036654\" rel=\"nofollow\">Will analyze the approximately 22 Thunderbird 5 related support topics on Get Satisfaction by  end of the day<\/a>)\n<li> See <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Thunderbird\/StatusMeetings\/2011-06-21\/SupportAppendix\" title=\"Thunderbird\/StatusMeetings\/2011-06-21\/SupportAppendix\">this week&#8217;s Support Appendix<\/a> for full Get Satisfaction metrics and other support details\n<li> We will be moving support.mozillamessaging.com soon (no date yet, tracker bug and more info after Thunderbird 5 is released).\n<\/ol>\n<h3> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Lightning Updates <\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li> All blockers solved, aside from low risk theme changes\n<li> Release work in progress, rc1 is tagged and building\n<li> Had a few issues with the l10n dashboard not giving me the right revisions, this had to be fixed manually\n<li> Preparation for Ubuntu integration talks in progress\n<li> Lightning 1.0b4rc1 will be released today. I will allow until the 27th for testing and then upload the final to AMO. If something major shows up, we will do a chemspill release to fix things.\n<\/ul>\n<h3> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Status Updates <\/span><\/h3>\n<p>See the <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/weekly-updates.fcgi\/project\/thunderbird\" rel=\"nofollow\">Mozilla Status Board<\/a> for status updates specific to developers.\n<\/p>\n<h3> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Roundtable Highlights <\/span><\/h3>\n<h3> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Attendees  <\/span><\/h3>\n<p>jhopkins, jb, jenzed, ludo, rolandtanglao, standard8 aka Mark Banner, gozer, rebron, bienvenu, mconley, bwinton, sancus, andreasn, fallen aka Philipp Kewisch<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"printfooter\">\nRetrieved from &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Thunderbird\/StatusMeetings\/2011-06-21\">https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Thunderbird\/StatusMeetings\/2011-06-21<\/a>&#8220;<\/div>\n<div class=\"catlinks catlinks-allhidden\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"visualClear\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thunderbird\/StatusMeetings\/2011-06-21 &lt; Thunderbird | StatusMeetings last meeting | index | next meeting \u00bb Current Release Schedules Thunderbird 5.0 Final Beta Thunderbird 3.1.11 ETA: this week Builds start: 13 June QA with builds start: 14 June Beta period starts: 14\/15 June Final release: 21 June Thunderbird Meeting Details\u00a0: Tuesday, June 14, 2011 16:30 UTC (9:30am Pacific, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[209],"tags":[40],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/meeting-notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/meeting-notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/meeting-notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/meeting-notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/meeting-notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/meeting-notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/meeting-notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/meeting-notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/meeting-notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}