Thunderbird/StatusMeetings/2008-12-09

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Thunderbird Meeting Details

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

Agenda

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

Calls For Help

• davida would appreciate assistance on the autoconfiguration branch. (The awesome create-a-new-account screen where you just enter your e-mail address and it figures out most/all of the details for you.)
  • Cert dialog improvements post b1 would be useful.
• bienvenu: Go download and try out release candidate builds
• wsmwk: When trying the candidate builds, checkout the address book and message reader pane

Action Items

Open

• davida: needs to identify the major work items for thunderbird 3 and break them down by the beta/release they will be in.
• Release Thunderbird 3 Beta 1
• Drivers to review blocker nomination list for beta 1
• Thunderbird 3 Beta 2 planning and scheduling
• Add simon and gozer to drivers list

Thunderbird 3 Beta 1

• bienvenu is release driver
• gozer is build engineer
• String freeze from: 2008-11-13
• Code Freeze date: 2008-11-25
• RC 2 builds available here, in 30+ locales : http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/nightly/3.0b1-candidates/build2/

• Blockers/Wanted
  • TB 3.0b1 - blocking: 5
  • TB 3.0b1 - wanted: ?
• Proposed Blocking
  • Proposed Blockers (b1): ?
  • Proposed Blockers (b? + milestone): ?
• Fixed:
  • TB 3.0b1 - blocking: ?
  • TB 3.0b1 - wanted: ?

Thunderbird 3 Beta 2

• ???? is release driver
• gozer is build engineer
• (Slushy?) String freeze from: TBD
• (Slushy?) Code freeze from: TBD

• Blockers/Wanted
  • TB 3.0b2 - blocking: ?
  • TB 3.0b2 - wanted: ?
• Proposed Blocking
  • Proposed Blockers (b2): ?
  • Proposed Blockers (b? + milestone): ?
• Fixed:
  • TB 3.0b1 - blocking: ?
  • TB 3.0b1 - wanted: ?

Thunderbird 3

• Draft Thunderbird:Thunderbird3:DevRoadmap identifies major work items on the plate for Tb3 -- much of it needs scheduling, owning, breakdown.
  • DevRoadmap is updated. What left to do on Calendar is not clear.
  • Overall progress is very good.
  • folks interested in helping with front-end stuff, some simple, should ask in #maildev

Roundtable

Status Updates

jcranmer

• Finals week... probably won't be at call, should be on call next week, though.
• Revamped ab_rewrite public repo (see [1])
• Starting implementation for bug 444093 !
• Starting bug 118665 !
• Proposal for synchronization framework

Standard8

Two week goals (week 2):

• Move to toolkit password manager.
• Move Leak and Bloat tests to be controlled by MozMill.
• Write down extended roadmap overview for the address book (based on discussion during MoMo work week).

Build

• Thunderbird 3 Beta 1 Build 2
  • complete MARs need redoing bug 468488, bug 468468
• Buildbot
  • Upgrading to buildbot 0.9.7 still waiting
  • doubling capacity for mozilla-central vs. mozilla-1.9.1

Web

• SpreadThunderbird staging server is back
• Analytics ??
• Sumo ??

Infrastructure

• Phone server is good, quality is down
  • Needs more work

clarkbw

• Two Week Goals (week 2):
  • Push new iteration of Conversation List into exptoolbar
  • Review Conversation Reader and continue to iterate on