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-At the moment, this page is merely a scratchpad where I'm putting together ideas for post Tb3 work.  Before any of the things here become real, I'll be iterating on them with feedback from the community.
+Part of the plan for Thunderbird is to move our development process in a more agile direction.  Now that we've just about got Tb3 out the door, here are some process changes I propose to help us get there.  Please post feedback on the wiki Talk page or to dev-apps-thunderbird@lists.mozilla.org.
-Part of the plan for Thunderbird is to move our development process in a more agile direction.  Now that we've just about got Tb3 out the door, there are some process changes I'd like to propose to help us get there.
 == Dev Cycle ==
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 * More frequent releases are likely to add non-trivial QA & RelEng load
-* Sufficiently large features are may sometimes be hard or impossible to segment into 4-6 month chunks
+* Sufficiently large features may sometimes be hard or impossible to segment into 4-6 month chunks
 * We'll likely end up having to backport some patches to more than one branch, as Firefox and Gecko developers are doing today.
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 == Thunderbird 3.1 ==
-Ideally, 3.next should be a short-cycle release (~4 months) based on (very likely) 1.9.2.  The intent of this release would be primarily twofold:
+As the first concrete-step towards agility, I propose that 3.next should be a short-cycle release (~4 months) based on (very likely) 1.9.2.  The intent of this release would be primarily:
 * Update to a version of Gecko further from end-of-life than 1.9.1
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 Note that the above specifically excludes taking large, disruptive changes during the 3.1 cycle.
+More planning for 3.1 will be forthcoming in the next few days.
 == Post-3.1 ==
-At the same time as we're working on 3.1, we should also be working on mapping out our post-3.1 changes.  We've got a couple of thoughts on approaches to mapping out both feature and technology changes that I describe briefly on the [[User:Dmose/Tb Post-3.1 Scratchpad|Tb Post-3.1 Scratchpad]].  After we get the stuff on this page nailed down and rolling, we can dig into that in more detail.
+At the same time as we're working on 3.1, we should also be working on mapping out our post-3.1 changes.  We've got a couple of thoughts on approaches to mapping out both feature and technology changes that I describe briefly on the [[User:Dmose/Tb Post-3.1 Scratchpad|Tb Post-3.1 Scratchpad]].  After we get the stuff on this page somewhat solidified and rolling, we can dig into that in more detail.