{"id":633,"date":"2011-08-23T23:00:06","date_gmt":"2011-08-24T03:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/meeting-notes\/archives\/633"},"modified":"2011-08-23T23:00:06","modified_gmt":"2011-08-24T03:00:06","slug":"thunderbird-meeting-minutes-2011-08-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/meeting-notes\/archives\/633","title":{"rendered":"Thunderbird Meeting Minutes: 2011-08-23"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<h1 id=\"page-title\">Thunderbird\/StatusMeetings\/2011-08-23<\/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\/2011-08-16\" title=\"Thunderbird\/StatusMeetings\/2011-08-16\">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\/2011-08-30&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1\" title=\"Thunderbird\/StatusMeetings\/2011-08-30 (page does not exist)\">next meeting \u00bb<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>(current release schedules returning soon)<\/p>\n<p><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=08&amp;day=23&amp;hour=16&amp;min=30&amp;sec=0\" rel=\"nofollow\">Tuesday, August 23, 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 <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mibbit.com\/chat\/?server=irc.mozilla.org&amp;channel=%23maildev\" rel=\"nofollow\">#maildev<\/a> 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>sancus<\/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<ul>\n<li> Lanoxx, a contributor from Germany, did a significant update and expansion to the <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/developer.mozilla.org\/en\/Building_a_Thunderbird_extension\" rel=\"nofollow\">Thunderbird extension tutorial<\/a>\n<\/ul>\n<p>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!\n<\/p>\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\/2011-08-23\" title=\"Thunderbird\/Driver Meetings\/2011-08-23\">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<ul>\n<li> bwinton sent mockups of the final flow to various third parties.\n<li> bwinton doesn&#8217;t have enough time to actually get the patch written on schedule, and so has asked Protz for help driving it home.\n<\/ul>\n<h5> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> OpenSearch <\/span><\/h5>\n<h5> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Test Pilot <\/span><\/h5>\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>Andrew back from vacations, need to update my gloda patches. Lot of telemetry work happening:<br \/>\n&#8211; I patched the about:telemetry extension to make it work with Thunderbird,<br \/>\n&#8211; sent an email to the metrics team, they confirmed we would be able to aggregate the data by date,<br \/>\n&#8211; I plan on pushing a patch to toolkit so that we have our own gloda sections in the telemetry reports,<br \/>\n&#8211; I have an email ready to go asking our testing community to enable telemetry reporting (as soon as about:telemetry is approved).<br \/>\nOnce all of that is done, I plan on letting the stats accumulate for a couple weeks, then land the gloda patches, and compare the results.<\/p>\n<p>Auto-resizing iframe review pending, probably won&#8217;t get r+ until a few cycles.<\/p>\n<p>Started writing mozmill tests for Thunderbird Conversations.\n<\/p>\n<h5> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Compose in a tab <\/span><\/h5>\n<h5> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Account Summary <\/span><\/h5>\n<h5> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Ubuntu Unity Integration <\/span><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li> Keeping an eye out for show-stoppers, major problems &#8211; but so far, so good.\n<\/ul>\n<h4> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Schedule and Progress <\/span><\/h4>\n<h5> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Thunderbird 6 <\/span><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li> released!\n<\/ul>\n<h5> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Thunderbird 7 <\/span><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li> beta builds done and on FTP except for 4 locales, waiting on Standard8\n<\/ul>\n<h5> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Thunderbird 8 <\/span><\/h5>\n<h5> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Thunderbird 9 <\/span><\/h5>\n<h5> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Thunderbird 3.1.x <\/span><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li> The 3.1 series is going to keep going while we discuss how to work with enterprise users.  Once there&#8217;s a way forward there, we&#8217;ll close down the 3.1 branch.\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\/auto-address-cleaner\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Auto Address cleaner<\/a> Let&#8217;s you send emails without sending the comments stored in your address book. Very useful if you have a lot of address entries with comments.\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> Release work\n<li> Bugzilla maintenance\n<li> We need more people running on the <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/ftp.mozilla.org\/pub\/mozilla.org\/thunderbird\/nightly\/latest-comm-aurora\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Aurora<\/a> channel\n<li> <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/mail.mozilla.org\/pipermail\/thunderbird-testers\/2011-August\/000059.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">How we plan on changing testing with the train release model<\/a>\n<\/ul>\n<h3> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Marketing Updates <\/span><\/h3>\n<h3> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Infrastructure Update  <\/span><\/h3>\n<h3> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Build \/ Release Update <\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li> <b>jhopkins back from vacation<\/b>\n<li> Thunderbird 6.0\n<ul>\n<li> Major updates in <i>*test<\/i> channels\n<\/ul>\n<li> Thunderbird 7.0b1\n<li> Mozmill now in-tree\n<\/ul>\n<h3> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Web Update <\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li> channel page done and here: <a class=\"external free\" href=\"http:\/\/www-stage.mozilla.org\/en-US\/thunderbird\/channel\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www-stage.mozilla.org\/en-US\/thunderbird\/channel<\/a> &#8212; localization bugs will be filed today\n<li> working on Kitsune update and a bunch of small website bugs\n<\/ul>\n<h3> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Documentation <\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li> Knowledge Base community contributions:\n<ul>\n<li> <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/support.mozillamessaging.com\/en-US\/kb\/blocking-sender\" rel=\"nofollow\">Blocking a Sender<\/a>\n<li> <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/support.mozillamessaging.com\/en-US\/kb\/configuring-email-aliases\" rel=\"nofollow\">Configuring Email Aliases<\/a>\n<li> three KB article expansions from contributors\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li> New MDN contributor: update and expand <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/developer.mozilla.org\/en\/Building_a_Thunderbird_extension\" rel=\"nofollow\">Thunderbird extension tutorial<\/a>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li> investigate enabling <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/input.mozilla.com\/en-US\/feedback\" rel=\"nofollow\">feedback site<\/a> for Thunderbird\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li> 17 responses to (from us to them) to contributor inquiry form\n<\/ul>\n<h3> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Thunderbird\/Support\" title=\"Thunderbird\/Support\">Support<\/a> <\/span><\/h3>\n<h3> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Lightning Updates <\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Philipp has been very busy with exams, therefore work has slowed a bit, but:\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Summer of Code is now over, I&#8217;d say it has been a success for calendar!\n<li> Tree situation has yet to be solved, I&#8217;m on it.\n<li> Working on providing a build for Tb7.0b1\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<div class=\"printfooter\">\nRetrieved from &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Thunderbird\/StatusMeetings\/2011-08-23\">https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Thunderbird\/StatusMeetings\/2011-08-23<\/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\/2011-08-23 &lt; Thunderbird | StatusMeetings last meeting | index | next meeting \u00bb (current release schedules returning soon) Thunderbird Meeting Details\u00a0: Tuesday, August 23, 2011 16:30 UTC (9:30am Pacific, 12:30pm Eastern) How to dial-in Remember to press *1 to unmute yourself before talking! 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