Thunderbird/StatusMeetings/2010-02-02

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Current Release Schedules

Lanikai 3.1 Alpha 1	Thunderbird 3.0.2
String/code freeze date: 2010-01-12 (Tuesday) Branch Gecko, cut hackbranch, land async changes: 2010-01-13 (Wednesday) l10n-mozilla-1.9.2 freeze date: 2010-01-18 (Monday) Build/relbranch date: 2010-01-19 (Tuesday) Ship date: 2010-02-03 (Wednesday)	Relbranch opens: January 21 Code freeze: February 12 23:59 PST L10n freeze: February 15 23:59 PST Builds start: February 16 QA with builds start: February 16 Beta period starts: February 18 Final release: February 25

Thunderbird Meeting Details :

• Tuesday, February 2nd, 17:30 UTC (9:30am Pacific, 12:30pm Eastern)
• How to dial-in

Agenda

• Who's taking minutes? --> gozer
• Minute taking Schedule. Talk to davida for schedule changes/additions.

Action Items

• Open: Planning for a dry-run security firedrill build
  • Checklist: draft checklist for firedrill actions
  • gozer and Standard8 to 'schedule' run through

Friends of the Tree

Thanks to our Friends of the Tree

Thunderbird 3.1 (Lanikai)

• Branch Tinderboxen are currently following 3.1a1 relbranch; for the moment, the trunk Tinderboxen are the ones to watch.
• Further Lanikai planning imminent, but waiting until 3.1a1 ships
• Discussion about specifics of cutting the 1.9.2 version of comm-central in progress; details soon
• Bug lists: Thunderbird:Thunderbird3.1:Status_Tracking

Lanikai Alpha 1

Schedule

• Unless we discover critical bugs; shipping is imminent (next very small number of days).

Thunderbird 3.0.x Developer Update

See Tinderbox for how to get your patches into 3.0.x

Thunderbird 3.0.2

• See Schedule above.
• Generally smaller amount of fixes than 3.0.1, but still improving user experience for upgrades and stability.

• Blockers (needed and .2): 29 (-1)
  • Of which blocking 3.0.2: 7 (+5)
• Blocking Nominations: 9 (+3)
• Fixed 3.0.2: 22

QA Updates

• 3.1a1 Build1 testing is done - Thanks to the participants.
  • Results in bug form
  • Results in coverage form
• No weekly event last week - they'll resume this week
• Good discussions on how to improve the QA process - needs some formalization and publishing.

since last bug table 3.0.1 has been released so comparison is possible:

status	bug	summary	# crash /week
No signature bug			827
Assigned - no progress	bug 536960	sqlite3DbMallocRaw	812
Unassigned - no progress	bug 536308	arena_dalloc | free | sqlite3_free | pcache1TruncateUnsafe	804
Unassigned - no progress	bug 505016	_purecall | nsXPCWrappedJS::QueryInterface(nsID const&, void**)	773
Needs landing on Branch	bug 533035	JS_dtobasestr	639

Marketing Updates

• PR Updates: Easier but not easy enough, WSJ Mossberg article, "The new Thunderbird also has a very cool filtered search system."; Mail Tweak Extension for Thunderbird
• Starting outreach for press dinner
• ADU Numbers from Metrics Nightly Report: Feb 1 - Total 5.8MM users; 1.2MM on TB3

IT update

• MoMo On-Site
• SuMoMo Launched

Support

1. SuMoMo launched January 26, 2010. Thanks to Gozer and Jen for their help.
   1. Bugs - comments allowed on home page, folks are using comments for support, will fix this week
   2. Fun Analytics after a week - 75K visits, USA #1, Germany #2, Japan #3 - Browser stats: Firefox (Thunderbird Help Page counts as firefox) 62%, 4% Chrome, only 1600 visits from IE6
   3. Looking for Contributors to write articles in English (and German!) and any other languages
   4. At All Hands productive meetings with SuMo on sphinx search and their plans to make the forums and tagging much better
2. Get Satisfaction Accelerator to make flagging duplicates and asking for more information and splitting subtopics faster - Spec, Very Prelim Flag Duplicate JetPack code from Bryan - Looking for a Jetpack developer to develop this further with Roland acting as tester and spec writer email me roland AT mozillamessaging.com if interested in collaborating. Feedback on spec also welcome! Please edit the spec wiki page!
3. The GS topics that were triaged at the February 1, 2010 meeting
4. Issues to be reviewed at the next GS Triage meeting scheduled for February 8, 2010 - Please tag topics "review" if you think they need to be reviewed because they cause customer pain
5. Key Support stats from the following graphic:
   1. approximately 78/ day (552/7 slightly higher than 2 weeks ago), # of visitors 20,000 on graph seems to be right but numerical stats are wrong)
   2. total new topics:552 (down from last week) total replies:1385 from employees and champions: 186 back to normal! (NonMoMo:193 FROM Michael Pasek (thanks!), 77 from Chris Ramsden aka Xenos (thanks!),59 from Wayne Mery (thanks!), 49 from DavRo (thanks!), 13 from Mark Solly (thanks!), 8 from from Kent (Thanks!), MoMo: 17 by Bienvenu (thanks), 38 from Roland, 12 from Bryan Clark (thanks!), 3 from Blake (thanks!), 24 from Ludo (thanks),14 from Mark Banner (thanks) (Ruby Code)
      1. date:20100126 #new support topics:80 resolved:12
      2. date:20100127 #new support topics:68 resolved:17
      3. date:20100128 #new support topics:88 resolved:16
      4. date:20100129 #new support topics:83 resolved:20
      5. date:20100130 #new support topics:55 resolved:16
      6. date:20100131 #new support topics:44 resolved:15
      7. date:20100201 #new support topics:57 resolved:16

Roundtable

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