Thunderbird/StatusMeetings/2011-02-22

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Current Release Schedules

Thunderbird 3.3 Alpha 3	Thunderbird 3.1.8
TBD	Code freeze: 18 Jan 23:59 L10n freeze: 18 Jan 23:59 Builds start: 19/20 Jan QA with builds start: 21 Jan Beta period starts: Week of 24 Jan Build 2 starts: 7th Feb Build 2 Beta period starts: 8th/9th Feb Final release: 1st March

Thunderbird Meeting Details :

• Tuesday, February 22, 2011 17:30 UTC (9:30am Pacific, 12:30pm Eastern)
• How to dial-in

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Agenda

• Who's taking minutes? --> Usul/Ludo
• Minute taking Schedule. Talk to davida or dmose for schedule changes/additions.
• Note: this meeting is for interactive discussion. Feel free to ask questions!

Friends of the Tree

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Thunderbird Development

For more details, see also the driver meeting notes.

Feature Work

Account Provisioner:

• Contracts continue to be worked on.
• Standard8 is working on making a version that's bundled with TB for wider testing.
• Bryan and I are implementing a new UI with both free and paid account options.
• We will likely ship 3.3 with only limited integration with free accounts.

Search Integration:

• First version released! Woo!
• Working on alternate UI for second version.

Experiments

Thunderbird Conversations

• Bug fixes, mostly.
• Launched l10n work on Babelzilla.
• Considering releasing an alpha3, maybe when Thunderbird 3.3 is out...

Compose in a tab

• Now working properly, and using the backend send functions from thunderbird-stdlib.
• Attachments support.
• Many more fixes, does not depend on Contacts anymore for the autocomplete.
• Huge cleanup of the code.
• Still need to implement saving/edit drafts + autosave, and then will release a new version.
• Goal is to try to get some people interested in the project so that they can contribute and improve the thing.
• Lots of issues, will blog about this.

Trunk (Miramar) Development

• Planned 3.3 Feature discussion on tb-planning
• New blocking policy drafted
• Currently working out next alpha/beta schedules.
• Help on fixing blockers would be very useful and appreciated, see this list of higher priority bugs.

Thunderbird Stability & Security Releases

• Thunderbird 3.1.8 and Firefox 3.6.14 both have investigations to issues ongoing, awaiting more info today for next action.
• Drafted updates to page about blocking policies and flags for stability and security releases.
• Bug Lists: 3.1

QA Updates

• Maintaining Bugzilla
• tester's mailing list is low traffic you should subscribe to be warned when testing is going on.

Build / Release Update

• Canary system (bug 631597) now collecting and publishing known-good revision history. See http://build.mozillamessaging.com/buildbot/production/known-good-revisions/

Support

(If you support Thunderbird or write documentation to help support Thunderbird, please subscribe to the tb-support-crew mailing list and briefly introduce yourself to the list)

1. 610 new support topics (again don't know why it's up,normal is 400-500, last week 655)
2. 3.1 Support Issues
3. See this week's Support Appendix for full Get Satisfaction metrics and other support details

Status Updates

See the Mozilla Status Board for status updates specific to developers.