{"id":735,"date":"2011-12-21T00:00:09","date_gmt":"2011-12-21T04:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/meeting-notes\/archives\/735"},"modified":"2011-12-21T00:00:09","modified_gmt":"2011-12-21T04:00:09","slug":"thunderbird-meeting-minutes-2011-12-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/meeting-notes\/archives\/735","title":{"rendered":"Thunderbird Meeting Minutes: 2011-12-20"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<h1 id=\"page-title\">Thunderbird\/StatusMeetings\/2011-12-20<\/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>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Thunderbird\/StatusMeetings\/2011-12-13\" title=\"Thunderbird\/StatusMeetings\/2011-12-13\">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-MM-DD&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1\" title=\"Thunderbird\/StatusMeetings\/2011-MM-DD (page does not exist)\">next meeting \u00bb<\/a> <\/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=12&amp;day=20&amp;hour=16&amp;min=30&amp;sec=0\" rel=\"nofollow\">Tuesday, December 20, 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>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 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<ul>\n<li> Hashem Masoud for his strong involvement in bugzilla.\n<li> alta88 for his RSS feed handling improvements\n<\/ul>\n<h3> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Thunderbird Development <\/span><\/h3>\n<p>For more details, see also the <a class=\"new\" href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/index.php?title=Thunderbird\/Driver_Meetings\/2011-MM-DD&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1\" title=\"Thunderbird\/Driver Meetings\/2011-MM-DD (page does not exist)\">driver meeting notes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<h4> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Features\/Thunderbird\" title=\"Features\/Thunderbird\">Feature Work<\/a> <\/span><\/h4>\n<h5> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Features\/Thunderbird\/Account_Provisioning\" title=\"Features\/Thunderbird\/Account Provisioning\">Account Provisioner<\/a> <\/span><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li> UI and behaviour polish patch has landed (<a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=700536\" rel=\"nofollow\">bug 700536<\/a>)\n<li> We need to land a tiny patch that takes into account longer strings in buttons that was screwing up our layout somewhat (<a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=711968\" rel=\"nofollow\">bug 711968<\/a>)\n<\/ul>\n<h5> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Features\/Thunderbird\/Opensearch\" title=\"Features\/Thunderbird\/Opensearch\">OpenSearch<\/a> <\/span><\/h5>\n<h5> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Features\/Thunderbird\/Test_Pilot\" title=\"Features\/Thunderbird\/Test Pilot\">Test Pilot<\/a> <\/span><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li> a few fix-ups this week\n<\/ul>\n<h5> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Features\/Thunderbird\/Tabs_On_Top\" title=\"Features\/Thunderbird\/Tabs On Top\">Tabs on Top<\/a> <\/span><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li> On the brink of landing.  I hope.  Sid has noticed some issues with Tabs on Top and TestPilot, so he&#8217;s looking into that.\n<\/ul>\n<h5> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Features\/Thunderbird\/BigFiles\" title=\"Features\/Thunderbird\/BigFiles\">Big Files<\/a> <\/span><\/h5>\n<h5> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Click-to-Web <\/span><\/h5>\n<h4> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Schedule and Progress <\/span><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li> <b>Next merge date: <\/b> Today\n<li> For information about channels, point people here &#8211; <a class=\"external free\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/thunderbird\/channel\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/thunderbird\/channel\/<\/a>\n<\/ul>\n<h5> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Thunderbird 9 <\/span><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li> Releasing today.\n<\/ul>\n<h5> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Thunderbird 10 <\/span><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li> Merges to beta today, will be doing builds later this week.\n<\/ul>\n<h5> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Thunderbird 11 <\/span><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li> Merges to aurora today.\n<\/ul>\n<h5> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Thunderbird 3.1.x <\/span><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li> Releasing 3.1.17 today\n<\/ul>\n<h3> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Extension of the week <\/span><\/h3>\n<h3> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Thunderbird:Testing\" title=\"Thunderbird:Testing\">QA<\/a> Updates <\/span><\/h3>\n<h3> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Marketing Updates <\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li> Thunderbird ADUs reached all time high 7.9MM last week, normalizing this week due to the holidays at around 7.6MM ADUs.\n<li> Tb 9 release work.\n<\/ul>\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> Thunderbird 9.0 beta 5\n<li> Thunderbird 9.0 final builds\n<li> Bug 710350 &#8211; Don&#8217;t hard-code &#8216;firefox&#8217; and &#8216;fennec&#8217; in misc.py\n<li> Bug 698843 &#8211; Build Thunderbird on Firefox infrastructure (should be getting some help from armenzg in the new year)\n<\/ul>\n<h3> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Web Update <\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li> TB9-&gt;10 compatiblity bump done, should go live on thursday\n<li> Over 50% of locales are done l10n for TB9 content updates, including all major ones\n<li> fought with webtrends a bunch last week for kitsune analysis, not done yet but today hopefully!\n<\/ul>\n<h3> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Documentation <\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li> <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/support.mozillamessaging.com\/en-US\/kb\/new-thunderbird-9\" rel=\"nofollow\">New in Thunderbird 9<\/a>\n<li> <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Stewards\/Thunderbird\" rel=\"nofollow\">Thunderbird Stewards goals<\/a>\n<li> New contributor article: <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/support.mozillamessaging.com\/en-US\/kb\/how-move-mail-new-computer\/history\" rel=\"nofollow\">Using Gmail to move mail to a new computer<\/a> (needs edits before going live)\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> 1147 new support topics (1176 one week ago) &#8211; <a class=\"internal\" href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/images\/2\/25\/Thunderbird-GetSatisfaction-stats-12-18Dec2011-2011-12-19_1453.png\" title=\"Thunderbird-GetSatisfaction-stats-12-18Dec2011-2011-12-19 1453.png\">Media:Thunderbird-GetSatisfaction-stats-12-18Dec2011-2011-12-19_1453.png<\/a>\n<li> <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Thunderbird\/Thunderbird9.0SupportIssues\" title=\"Thunderbird\/Thunderbird9.0SupportIssues\">Thunderbird 9 Support Issues<\/a> &#8211; Please edit and add any issues or bugs found in TB9 and tag them <b>tb9<\/b>\n<li> <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/roland\/2011\/12\/19\/support-contributors-please-add-yorself-to-the-mozillians-directory\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Support Contributors, please add yourself to the Mozillians directory<\/a>\n<li> <b>Experimental<\/b> twice a day Thunderbird support report showing trending topics, ISPs, mail providers, tags, anti-virus and active contributors at <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/thunderbirdrobot.posterous.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">thunderbirdrobot.posterous.com<\/a>. Unfortunately due to <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/developers.posterous.com\/html-limits-on-posts-via-email-or-the-api\" rel=\"nofollow\">what seems like a bug in the posterous API it&#8217;s truncated<\/a> (<a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/developers.posterous.com\/new-api-stripping-out-code-content\" rel=\"nofollow\">same report from another developer<\/a>). Luckily I have an email backup which I can use to fix it. <b>Help wanted with the code<\/b>: i) <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/rtanglao\/momogs\/blob\/master\/emailReport2.rb\" rel=\"nofollow\">email to Posterous script<\/a>, ii) <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/rtanglao\/momogs\/blob\/master\/postlyReport.rb\" rel=\"nofollow\">post to API Posterous script<\/a>; contact rtanglao AT mozilla.com or send me a github pull request\n<li> See <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Thunderbird\/StatusMeetings\/2011-12-20\/SupportAppendix\" title=\"Thunderbird\/StatusMeetings\/2011-12-20\/SupportAppendix\">this week&#8217;s Support Appendix<\/a> for full Get Satisfaction metrics and other support details\n<li> Happy Holidays and thanks to all who contributed to support in 2011! Thunderbird Get Satisfaction year in numbers work in progress: over 4000 topics solved by contributors and employees;  over 25000 replies by contributors and employees\n<\/ol>\n<h3> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Lightning Updates <\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li> lightning 1.1 released to AMO yesterday\n<li> hope to have Thunderbird 10 and Lightning beta out for Christmas\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<ul>\n<li> no meeting next week\n<li> looking at how to move ispdb updates faster\n<\/ul>\n<h3> <span class=\"mw-headline\"> Attendees <\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li> sancus, jenzed, standard8, rolandtanglao, rebron, gozer, jhopkins\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"printfooter\">\nRetrieved from &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Thunderbird\/StatusMeetings\/2011-12-20\">https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Thunderbird\/StatusMeetings\/2011-12-20<\/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\/2011-12-20 &lt; Thunderbird | StatusMeetings last meeting | index | next meeting \u00bb Thunderbird Meeting Details\u00a0: Tuesday, December 20, 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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