L10n:TB 1.5 Testing Day

This is a place holder for an-depth info on the l10n thunderbird 1.5 testing day. For more information on what to do, this will to some extent mimic what QA did at Mozilla_QA_Community:ThunderBird_1.5_RC2_Community_Test_Day.

Feedback will be gathered on the Discussion page to this one.

Important!

Backup your existing Thunderbird profile before testing!

Here is some information about backing up your profiles:

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Thunderbird_:_FAQs_:_Backing_Up_and_Restoring
http://mozbackup.jasnapaka.com/ - Backup utility for Firefox and Thunderbird

FAQ

Where do I start?

Go to your favorite IRC client
Connect to irc.mozilla.org
join the #testday channel

Ok, I am in the channel, now what?

Let the moderators know if you have any questions or encounter any problems. If you are not familiar with our bugzilla bug tracking system, feel free to report your problems to a moderator and they can log any bugs for you.

What build should I test?

We will be testing the Thunderbird RC2 build. Here are links to the various platforms:

http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/nightly/latest-mozilla1.8-1.5rc2-l10n/

How do I use Litmus to test?

Go to http://litmus.mozilla.org/
Click on run tests. Please make sure to enter your email address in the last field.
Select product "Thunderbird" and your platform and OS
Select 1.5
Enter 2005120115 as the build ID
Enter your email address

In the next section, select the following:

Select the radio button that says BFTs
Select the radio button for the section you want to test

We are leaving it open as far as what you want to test, but we encourage you to explore areas in Thunderbird that you might not normally use. For example, try creating some saved searches and work offline for a while just to make sure those areas are functioning correctly.

Who will be moderating the #testday channel?

Moderators are designated by a solid green dot in the IRC client and will be at the top of the channel.

The moderator's nicks are:

Pike
mscott