Thunderbird/StatusMeetings/2010-04-27

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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, April 27th, 16:30 UTC (9:30am Pacific, 12:30pm Eastern)
• How to dial-in

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Agenda

• Who's taking minutes? --> dmose
• 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!

Thunderbird 3.1 (Lanikai)

• flag nomination restriction proposal status has been implemented; _Tsk_ to send last email tomorrow
• Bug Lists
• Posted 2.0.0.x sunset plan
• Posted post-3.1 development plan
• More plans to be posted today

Conversion Funnel (Priority 0 side project)

• Funnelcake build launched 4/22. Crunching numbers this week. Next step is to prep for 3.0.5 version.
• Hit a 43.3% single-day success rate high with the ISPDB. Still in the mid-30% average for success rate.

Lanikai Beta 2

• Branch created. Trunk still closed due to needing to wait until builds start before moving localisers across.
• All patches landed on branch ready for b2.

• 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

• Code freeze date: Tuesday, May 18th 23:59 PDT
• l10n-mozilla-1.9.2 freeze date: Tuesday, May 18th 23:59 PDT
• Build/relbranch date: Wednesday, May 19th
• QA start date: Thursday, May 20th
• Ship date: Thursday, May 27th

Thunderbird 3.0.x Developer Update

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

Thunderbird 3.0.5

• Gecko date set for May 13
• Currently trying to figure out dates for 3.0.5.

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

• Readying the volunteers for testing 3.1b2
• Usual work on bugzilla

Marketing Updates

• Tbird Press watch: a few mentions 1,2, 3
• Thunderbird snippet on Firefox Start page is live. About 30% - 40% increase in downloads.
• 6.2MM ADUs. 36.7% of our users on Thunderbird 3.
• Next: getting ready for 3.1 beta 2

IT update

• Branched comm-1.9.2
  • Builders moved over
  • tinderboxpushlog updated
• DNS MX webservice for Thunderbird autoconfig
  • https://live.mozillamessaging.com/dns/mx/example.com
• SuMoMo upgrade to 5.1.2 complete
• Funnelcake

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
2. SuMoMo - production on SUMO 1.5.2 [tracker bug 552708], 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 - 410 new topics (382), Sadness up: 68% (67%) - 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!
   • 18,http://getsatisfaction.com/mozilla_messaging/topics/why_cant_i_change_the_font_size_on_msgs ; 16,http://getsatisfaction.com/mozilla_messaging/topics/a_label_system_like_gmail_with_improve_features ; 16,http://getsatisfaction.com/mozilla_messaging/topics/secure_encrypted_and_authenticated_ports ; 14,http://getsatisfaction.com/mozilla_messaging/topics/how_do_i_get_gmail_to_work_with_tb_3_0 ; 13,http://getsatisfaction.com/mozilla_messaging/topics/restore_msf_files_in_thunderbird (getactive.rb)
   • contributors - 91 matt_678579 of Australia (v); 26 elcameleon1 ; 4, standard8 ; 4, sipaq (v);25, Archaeopteryx (v);10, rkent (v) ; 22, Roland Tanglao;8, wsmwk (v);40, Xenos aka chrisramsden (v); 7, tanstaafel (v); 6 jen zickerman (gethappykludged.rb)
   • new contributors: elcameleon1 (belated welcome) - 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 46/9, Tue 49/11, Wed 63/5, Thu 59/11, Fri 39/5, Sat 47/2, Sun 34/2 (getNumCreatedNumResolved.rb)
   • Biweekly GS Triage Meeting - next Meeting Monday May 3, 2010 10a.m. Pacific x4401 - please tag GS topics 'review' for high user pain topics
   • Roland to set up pseudo-user pointing to email address so that GS community support folks can ask each other for advice

Status updates

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

Roundtable Highlights

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• Mozilla Developers' Network update (PDF slides); see also wiki page