Thunderbird:Testing/Testing: Difference between revisions

To participate in this effort, you'll need to run different versions of Thunderbird than the one linked on the mozillamessaging website.

Daily testing is can be divided by [[Thunderbird/Active_Branches |versions of Thunderbird]] that needs testing. Mozilla produces versions of Thunderbird every night , with new fixes and sometimes new bugs.

* We need a number of people on the stable branch - as it's name implies the stable branch only see fixes and doesn't see any new features. But by using these builds, you'll help make sure that we don't introduce new bugs in the next security and stability release. To use these either

* We need people to use Alphas and betas of the next major release. To run these just download one when they are announced and just keep using them.

* And finally need also people to run trunk builds. These build will contain all the new features of the next major release of Thunderbird and you don't need to wait the next beta to see them. These builds are less stable than the others and get broken once in a while (I would say maybe Once or twice per calendar year).

*# We also announce major issue when we are aware of them on [https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/tb-planning Tb-planning] - Some coverage about less critical issue is available on the [http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewforum.php?f=29 Daily build thread at Mozillazine]

When doing daily testing it's a good idea to have an account on  [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org Bugzilla] to log the issues you find (and please make sure to search bugzilla before filling new defects)