Mozilla QA Community:ThunderBird 1.5 RC2 Community Test Day
Welcome to the Thunderbird 1.5RC2 Community Test Day!
NOTE: This page is being edited during the course of the day today (Monday), so please check back later when I have all the information added. Thanks for your patience.
The test day will be held on December 13th, 2005. It will run from 6am PST/9am EST until 5pm PST/8pm EST
Welcome to the Firefox 1.5 RC3 Community Test Day!!
Thank you for participating in this test day. The success of Firefox is heavily dependent on community members like you. We appreciate your support!!
When you are done, please send feedback to [1]. We are very interested to hear about how the test day went, any overall thoughts about Firefox 1.5 RC3, and roll up of issues found and bugs filed.
FAQ
Where do I start?
- Go to your favorite IRC client
- Connect to irc.mozilla.org
- join the #testday channel
Ok, I am in the channel, now what?
- Let the moderators know if you have any questions or encounter any problems. If you are not familiar with our bugzilla bug tracking system, feel free to report your problems to a moderator and they can log any bugs for you.
What build should I test?
We will be testing the Thunderbird RC2 build. Here are links to the various platforms:
If you are using an earlier build (RC1), feel free to test out our great software update feature to bring yourself up to RC2.
How do I use Litmus to test?
- Go to http://litmus.mozilla.org/
- Click on run tests. Please make sure to enter your email address in the last field.
- Select product "Thunderbird" and your platform and OS
- Select trunk
- Enter 2005120115 as the build ID
- Enter your email address
In the next section, select the following:
- Select the radio button that says BFTs
- Select the radio button for the section you want to test
Who will be moderating the #testday channel?
Moderators are designated by a solid green dot in the IRC client and will be at the top of the channel.
The moderator's nicks are:
- tracy
- coop
- bc
- timr
- marcia
- jay
- davel
How do I file bugs?
First of all, let one of the moderators know so they can check if it is already a known problem. Then they can guide you to either provide more details, update an existing bug or file a new bug. If filing a new bug, please do a quick check to see if the bug already exists. This can easily be done by searching for the error message, window name, or some over identifing feature of the bug.
How do I send feedback?
Please use the [2] to send feedback about how the testday went, any overall thoughts about Thunderbird 1.5 RC2, and roll up of issues found and bugs filed. We really appreciate your help today and your feedback is very valuable.