Releases/Thunderbird 3.0a3:WebsiteNotes

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Process

Release notes tracking: bug 457186

1. en-US/thunderbird/early_releases/index.php
   • Add new Thunderbird Beta 1 section.
2. en-US/thunderbird/3.0b1/index.php
   • New page for this release, highlighting the new features and providing the appropriate download links.
   • Formulate main list of features from:
     • TB 3.0b1 - Blocking Fixed
     • TB 3.0b1 - Wanted Fixed
   • Download Links
     • Took a bit of time to see how Firefox does it [1]
     • Copied various files across from Firefox
     • Generation table for links isn't perfect (could it be auto-generated from build output?), but is better than hand-generating the table.
   • en-US/thunderbird/3.0b1/releasenotes/index.php
     • Search and replace old version with new version, be careful with the   version.

At this stage had a discussion with Gozer re including items from mozilla.com's repository. The includes/product-details/ is shared into mozilla.com's repository and is now shared into mozillamessaging.com's repository. This means we can pick up locale code to locale name conversion and other utility functions with minimal effort and not have to manually keep in sync.

Next steps:

• Created en-US/thunderbird/early-releases/downloads.php
  • This is a new page intended that we can just update the source data for each beta release.
  • Hence not worry about maintaining links for older releases - we'll just redirect the release notes to the http://ftp.mozilla.org/ site?
• en-US/thunderbird/early_releases/index.php
  • This may turn into the release announcement, see what people think (did more updates on it anyway).
• en-US/thunderbird/3.0b1/releasenotes/index.php
  • Updated the release notes with the text from en-US/thunderbird/3.0b1/index.php to fill in what's new.
  • Search all open bugs in Thunderbird and MailNews core for relnote.
  • Worked out the main relevant bugs to include.
• Tidied up code
• Created new includes/thunderbirdBetaDetails.class.php to replace includes/product-details/thunderbirdDetails.class.php as I don't currently know about changing the product-details repository.

Posted trunk revision ids 18691, 18762 to stage as revision id 18763.

Still to do:

• Get feedback on pages
• Release Dates
• Release Announcement (or just use the 3.0b1 index page?)
• Update file sizes of builds for l10n, and final list of builds.
• Installation directory check
• Tidy up old Shredder links.

Got some new images for download links, posted in revision id 18770 for trunk and 18771 for staging.

Tux/Linux image fixed in 18777 on trunk, and 18778 on stage.

Received start page initial version from Rafael, for bug 430762, trunk revision 18775, stage revision 18776