Thunderbird/StatusMeetings/2010-05-04

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Current Release Schedules

Lanikai 3.1 Beta 2	Thunderbird 3.0.5
String/code freeze date: Tuesday 20th April <-- 3.1 string/feature freeze! l10n-mozilla-1.9.2 freeze date: Thursday 29th April Switch to comm-1.9.2 branch: Friday 29th April Build/relbranch date: Friday 29th April Ship date: Wednesday 5th May. (may slip if we can't get compact headers and folder pane counts updated to work with 3.1 b2 in time)	Relbranch opens: March 30 Code freeze: May 10 L10n freeze: May 10 Builds start: May 10 QA with builds start: May 11 Beta period starts: May 13 Final release: June 17

Thunderbird Meeting Details :

• Tuesday, May 4th, 16:30 UTC (9:30am Pacific, 12:30pm Eastern)
• How to dial-in

Remember to press *1 to unmute yourself before talking!

Agenda

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

Friends of the Tree

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

• Joachim Herb <herb@leo.org> for his "Customize Message Header Toolbar" feature patch, as well as his patience and diligence in making changes to get it landed for 3.1. Thanks, Joachim!

Thunderbird 3.1 (Lanikai)

• Bug Lists

Lanikai Beta 2

• String/code freeze date: Tuesday 20th April <-- 3.1 string/feature freeze!
• l10n-mozilla-1.9.2 freeze date: Thursday 29th April
• Switch to comm-1.9.2 branch: Friday 29th April
• Build/relbranch date: Friday 29th April
• Ship date: Wednesday 5th May. (may slip if we can't get compact headers and folder pane counts updated to work with 3.1 b2 in time)

Lanikai RC1

Schedule proposed, assuming 3.1b2 release of 5th May and feeling on blockers

Thunderbird 3.0.x Developer Update

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

Security And Stability releases - where to help

• Bug Lists
• Blocking Bugs: 3.0.5 needed
• Wanted Bugs
• Testing and verification of the fixed bugs

QA Updates

Done :

• Testing for 3.1b2 covered 91% of the test. Thanks to all the community members who participated - it wouldn't have been possible in so little time without you gNeandr, Alan Lord, Glen O'Riley, Pedro Gracia Rodriguez,Robert Kinhead, James J Catchpole, R&B Penner,Kevin Quiggle, and Onno Ekker

To do :

• Organize a bugday/testday around search
• Test 3.0.5

IT update

• Thunderbird 3.1b2
• Linux 64-bit builders
  • In Staging
  • Mozmill

Support

1. Support Community Reboot - 2 min. intro video script posted, hopefully DavidA can find time to film with Rainer next time he's in MV; after 1:1 with DavidA thinking about revamping entire "new to the community" user support experience
2. SuMoMo - next: get SuMoMo localization dashboard, bug 549407 working; bug 556481 incorporate SuMoMo Search & links in mozillamessaging.com/support - 125K visits +5%, US +12.8%, DE -4%, JP +5%, UK, FR, CA, AU, IT, NL, etc.
3. Get Satisfaction (see graphic in Support Appendix - slightly higher than normal week - 413 new topics (410), Sadness up: 69% (68%) - GS contributors please check out our new boilerplate response page as well as GS JetPack Helper 0.3 needs hackers and contributors to use it for frequent support replies, email roland!
   • 13,http://getsatisfaction.com/mozilla_messaging/topics/your_mozillas_thunderbird_product_destroys_important_emails ; 10,http://getsatisfaction.com/mozilla_messaging/topics/connection_to_server_pop_gmail_com_timed_out ; 8,http://getsatisfaction.com/mozilla_messaging/topics/opening_a_messages_does_not_automatically_change_it_to_read ; 8,http://getsatisfaction.com/mozilla_messaging/topics/bad_font_sizes_for_composing_email_urgently_needs_fixing ; 8,http://getsatisfaction.com/mozilla_messaging/topics/feedback_on_the_new_migration_assistant_for_people_upgrading_from_2_x_to_3_1 (getactive.rb)
   • contributors - 79 matt_678579 of Australia (v); 4 elcameleon1 ; 9, standard8 ; 12 david_bienvenu, 12, kent_james (v);13, Wayne Mery (v);10, rkent (v) ; 12, Roland Tanglao;8, wsmwk (v);6, Xenos aka chrisramsden (v); 6, tanstaafel (v); 4 lhirlimann (gethappykludged.rb)
   • new contributors: none this week - always looking for new contributors, roland AT mozillamessaging.com OR #gsfn irc.mozilla.org nick:rolandtanglao - in particular looking for moderators who can look at others' replies and close topics & "support metadata fixers" who can fix tags and titles to make them accurate and searchable
   • new / closed topics Monday-Sunday: Mon 60/8, Tue 65/8, Wed 58/8, Thu 63/12, Fri 53/5, Sat 32/4, Sun 37/5 (getNumCreatedNumResolved.rb)
   • Biweekly GS Triage Meeting - next Meeting Monday May 10, 2010 10a.m. Pacific x4401 - please tag GS topics 'review' for high user pain topics, will also be reviewing 3.1beta 2 fixes and problems
   • After 1:1 with DavidA, Roland to move new topic wizard and related work from the backburner to the front burner
   • Roland to set up pseudo-user pointing to email address so that GS community support folks can ask each other for advice

Lightning Updates

String Freeze:	Soon (tm) - Depends on some bugs, see below
Hard Code Freeze:	May 25th
Release 1.0b2rc1:	June 1st

• Mock release went fairly well, a few issues with buildbot's expected paths.
• Bugs with l10n impact for 1.0b2:
  • bug 463392 - [needs review]
  • bug 536209 - May be dropped
  • bug 391673 - [needs ui-review]
• Other bugs for 1.0b2:
  • bug 479867 - FIXED, regression in bug 561735
  • bug 508320 - [needs review]
  • bug 547654 - FIXED
  • bug 556018 - [has patch][needs feedback]
  • bug 527254 - Work in progress (75%)
  • bug 346278 - Work in progress (40%)

• We've moved to comm-1.9.2 and are now cross-committing patches

Status updates

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