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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!

Action Items

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

squib is taking over the coding of Open Search, thanks!
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.

Compose in a tab

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 7

Thunderbird 8

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)

Documentation

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)

1938 new support topics (2013 1 week ago) - Media:18-24July2011-Community_stats_for_Mozilla_Messaging.png
Thunderbird 5 Support Issues
See this week's Support Appendix for full Get Satisfaction metrics and other support details
DRAFT Thunderbird 6 User Features Page for TB 6 docs, draft page for TB 7, draft page for TB8
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".
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

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 ===== OpenSearch =====
+* squib is taking over the coding of Open Search, thanks!
 * Blake submitted an update to the addon with a new UI.
 * Blake is writing the Privacy Review Documentation.