Thunderbird/StatusMeetings/2011-07-26

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(current release schedules returning soon)

Thunderbird Meeting Details :

• Tuesday, July 26, 2011 16:30 UTC (9:30am Pacific, 12:30pm Eastern)
• How to dial-in

Remember to press *1 to unmute yourself before talking!

Feel free to ask questions in the meeting either by speaking up or by asking them in #maildev on IRC.

Other ways to get in touch with us can be found on our communications page

Agenda

• Who's taking minutes? --> Bienvenu
• Minute taking Schedule. Talk to Standard8 for schedule changes/additions.
• Note: this meeting is for interactive discussion. Feel free to ask questions!

Friends of the Tree

• No nominations this week.

Thanks to our Friend of the Tree. When adding someone to this section, please get their T-Shirt size and send it to rebron@mozilla.com so that he can send them a shirt!

Thunderbird Development

For more details, see also the driver meeting notes.

Feature Work

Account Provisioner

• The Privacy Review is scheduled. Next step: turn the add-on code into a patch to core.

• The Draft Schedule is being updated.

OpenSearch

• Blake submitted an update to the addon with a new UI.
• Blake is writing the Privacy Review Documentation.
• The Draft Schedule is being updated.

Experiments

Thunderbird Conversations

Nice progression of the userbase, went from ~2000 users on the 2.0 series to ~32000 (nice!). Lots of press coverage (lifehacker, lifehacker japan) which certainly helped.

Main issues:

• https://github.com/protz/GMail-Conversation-View/issues/333
• reply button near the top of the message (http://getsatisfaction.com/mozilla_messaging/topics/improvements_for_thunderbird_conversations)
• https://github.com/protz/GMail-Conversation-View/issues/309 (help welcome for that one)

Redirected the feedback to getsatisfaction (see http://getsatisfaction.com/mozilla_messaging/tags/conversations); any help is welcome. About to issue 2.0.7 to change the "would you like to leave some feedback" link to point to getsatisfaction.

Account Summary

• About ready to release version 1.1; just waiting to get some additional testing before uploading to AMO (probably on Friday). See bug 489999 for the XPI.

Ubuntu Unity Integration

• EDS Contacts Integration
  • Create, update and delete now appears to work for contacts and mailing lists. Woo!
  • Found a regression introduced by my de-RDF'ing patch that prevents users from deleting their mailing lists - patch up for review at bug 673480
  • Have begun testing and fine-tuning for August 4th demonstration. Screencast forthcoming.

Schedule and Progress

Thunderbird 5 (Miramar)

• Currently doing throttled major updates as we keep an eye out for any stability issues. Should be opening it up later this week.
• Miramar nightlies have been stopped, redirecting users to early bird - It's a a two stage process you'll need to update twice to get there.

Thunderbird 6

• Thunderbird 6.0b1 is being build and tested - should be released by the end of the week, but we're aiming for Wednesday morning.

Thunderbird 3.1.x

• Firefox have scheduled the next 1.9.2 release for August 16th.
• Bug Lists: 3.1

Extension of the week

• none this week

QA Updates

• Ludo away, tb6 beta1 and earlybird tb7 continues

Marketing Updates

• PR Update: several articles 1,2 on Mozilla Enterprise Working Group, 6.0b1 news 1, 2.
• 6.0b1 launched last week. Next: additional betas and Thunderbird final release.
• Continuing work on Test Pilot studies.
• blog.mozilla.com/thunderbird coming soon
• Revisiting alpha/earlybird naming. "Mozilla Thunderbird Earlybird" not working well in several cases.

Infrastructure Update

• faster Windows build improvements, feedback requested
• new Minis in new data center

Build / Release Update

• Thunderbird 6.0b1 pushed to beta
• Build infrastructure improvements, mainly win32
• Testing patches for bug 656736 - Upgrade to latest MozMill for Thunderbird's tests
• Unthrottling Thunderbird 5 major updates

Web Update

• Upgrading SuMoMo to Kitsune latest version (July 19, 2011)

Support

(If you support Thunderbird or write or translate documentation to help support Thunderbird, please subscribe to the tb-support-crew mailing list and briefly introduce yourself to the list)

1. 1938 new support topics (2013 1 week ago) - Media:18-24July2011-Community_stats_for_Mozilla_Messaging.png
2. Thunderbird 5 Support Issues
3. See this week's Support Appendix for full Get Satisfaction metrics and other support details
4. DRAFT Thunderbird 6 User Features Page for TB 6 docs, draft page for TB 7, draft page for TB8
5. Alternatives for moving support.mozillamessaging.com to mozilla.org - Doesn't really matter to end users where the Thunderbird Support website is we just want to minimize current and future technical "yak shaving".
6. Roland is tired of missing Windows subtleties :-) and is therefore moving to using Windows 7 for day to day work after TB6 ships

Lightning Updates

• major kudos to Philipp for rapidly getting EDS provider "work in progress" out: currently smartify, read and delete events work
• Some urgent bugs showed up post 1.0b4 (Don't you love that "beep" ? ;-)
• They all have fixes now, spinning 1.0b5
• Update: Bugs fixed in this release are here
• Builds temporarily available at:

• Mac unified: http://mozilla.kewis.ch/1.0b5rc1/lightning-all-mac.xpi
• Linux unified: http://mozilla.kewis.ch/1.0b5rc1/lightning-all-linux.xpi
• Windows is still building

All builds will of course move to ftp.mozilla.org when done.

Please take a moment to test these builds!

• We want to get 1.0 out as fast as possible. Blocking list triaged down to 30 or so bugs to facilitate 1.0 release
• Blocking 1.0 list here
• Lets talk about how reasonable my decisions are when I have the list

Status Updates

See the Mozilla Status Board for status updates specific to developers.

Attendees

bienvenu bwinton jb roland mconley fallen gozer jhopkins rebron sancus