Thunderbird:Bugdays Planning

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Welcome to Thunderbird Bugdays Planning!

This wiki is a key part of our efforts to methodically plan and improve Thunderbird bug days. We invite and encourage you to observe, or better yet participate in our discussion and planning (see below), in our Bug Days and in our wider QA efforts to make Thunderbird an outstanding, robust product.

Current Operations and Planning

• Discussion and planning:
  • mozilla.dev.apps.thunderbird
  • Weekly Status Meetings
  • Here (obviously)

• Announcements and publicity:
  • Several days prior and on bugday in: #qa, #maildev, #seamonkey, #thunderbird, #bugs, #calendar, forums.mozillazine.org (builds, bugs, support), mozilla.dev.apps.thunderbird, mozilla.dev.planning, mozilla.dev.apps.seamonkey, mozilla.dev.apps.calendar, mozilla.support.thunderbird, The Rumbling Edge
  • Permanent information or several weeks notice posted at: #bugday, QMO, Thunderbird:QA_Days

• Results are posted or announced:
  • mozilla.dev.apps.thunderbird
  • in each Bug day page

Improving future Bug Days

Your ideas posted here need not be fully developed. What's important is to get a list of ideas, some of which might be worthy of further discussion, refinement and implementation.

Our present efforts include developing the QA infrastructure (wiki), reaching out to the established QA community and localizers and Thunderbird communities not tied directly to mozilla.org, and fixing session 3's low participation. We are considering future integration with QMO, which intends to be a full function QA support environment for mozilla projects.

• Ideas to improve bug days participation
  • add <your idea> - <rationale for your idea>

• Ideas to improve bug days operation
  • add <your idea> - <rationale for your idea>

• Ideas for focus - i.e. which bugs to tackle
  • Reduction of Duplicates - There are many unconfirmed (or even confirmed bugs) that may have duplicates in the "Core" product under MailNews or elsewhere. For instance, there are 3 address book components, 2 are application specific (SM & TB), one is core, I think there are various bugs in the TB one that are duplicates in core --Standard8 01:19, 7 April 2008 (PDT)
  • Reconfirming old bugs - How confident are we that all the "new" bugs in the database are still valid? Has someone changed the UI since, thus invalidating the bug, or has someone fixed the bug as a result of something else? There are ~2000 bugs classified as "new", are they really all new? --Standard8 01:19, 7 April 2008 (PDT).
  • add <your idea> - <rationale for your idea>

Past Bugdays - History / Changes

• Thunderbird:QA_TestDay:2008-04-10 - Session 3 04-03 had no activity. Session 3 for 04-10 will change to a 3-hour slot (instead of 2 hours) and delay start time +1hr to a) give PTD better later coverage, b) still cover all of Americas, c) give Asia better morning coverage. Session 1 and 2 did well.
• Thunderbird:QA_TestDay:2008-04-03 - Session 1 (Asia) lightly attended, and we lacked an evening session for Americas, so we moved Session 1 by ~16 hours to better cover Americas. Removed regional designations so that potential participants don't get a "message" that any sessions (not of their geography) should be avoided.
• Thunderbird:QA_TestDay:2008-03-27 - Adopted QMO's schedule of three, 2-hour sessions