Thunderbird/StatusMeetings/2009-09-08

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Thunderbird Meeting Details :

• Tuesday, September 8th, 16:30 UTC (9:30am Pacific, 12:30pm Eastern)
• How to dial-in

Agenda

• Who's taking minutes? --> Standard8
• Minute taking Schedule. Talk to davida for schedule changes/additions.

Action Items

Open

• Autoconfig process
  • Webapp currently being tested to fix some initial problems, will open up for broader testing soon
  • davida will be working with gozer on moving the webapp into a preview release
  • hopefully getting some review time from a django person
  • bwinton has been coordinating with Greg and students at U Toronto
    • 5 students across Canada
  • Join the ISPDB Google Group to participate in the discussion

Thunderbird 3 Beta 4

• Freeze Dates:
  • Slushy Code Freeze: Monday 7th Sept 23:59 PDT (yesterday).
  • Full String Freeze: Wed 9th Sept 23:59 PDT (tomorrow).
  • Code Freeze: Friday 11th Sept 23:59 PDT.
  • l10n Complete: Monday 14th Sept 23:59 PDT.
  • Release builds start: Tues 15th Sept.

• Blockers/Wanted
  • TB 3.0b4 - blocking 29 (-18)
• Proposed Blocking (all milestones)
  • Proposed Blockers (all): 17 (+2)
• Fixed:
  • TB 3.0b4 - blocking 81 (+19)

• Release Driver: Standard8
• Build Engineer: gozer
• Release Tracking Page: Releases/Thunderbird_3.0b4

Thunderbird 3

• Schedule (proposed, may change nearer b4):
  • Final l10n String Freeze: Tuesday 29th Sept 23:59 PST
  • Approvals/Blockers only: from Tuesday 6th October 23:59 PST
  • Aiming to start RC1 builds on: 3rd Nov.
  • Subsequent RCs as necessary.

• Blockers
  • blocking-thunderbird3+ 59 (-17)
  • Chart
  • TB 3 Needs: 3 (-1)
• Proposed Blocking
  • Proposed Blockers (all): 17 (+2)
• Wanted
  • Wanted Thunderbird 3 262

• Please set bugs to assigned status (as well as owner to you) if you want to do them.
• If you have other bugs assigned to you that you don't want to do, please reassign or discuss with drivers.

QA Updates

• Test day for thunderbird 3.0b4 coming up this week see Thunderbird:QA_TestDay:2009-09-10 for areas we will focus on.
• Regression testing before release starting next Wednesday.QA is looking for some volunteer work over that week to achieve a complete coverage of the Basic Functional Tests (see point2 in QA Activities related to the release of Thunderbird 3.0b4).
  • At the moment not a single windows user as signed up.
  • I'll relay this on a few more channel over the week.
  • I'll email a few testers from previous sessions.

• Last week was a slowish week
• first build of faceted search - was very interesting to look at.

Marketing Updates

• PR Update: Gmail outage put IMAP and desktop clients/Thunderbird in the news. Six Reasons Desktop Email Still Rules, Firefox, Thunderbird tweaks and add ons worth looking at
• 94% of Thunderbird 2 users are now on Thunderbird 2.0.0.23.

IT update

• New, faster Win2k3 builders (try, staging, production)
  • Mothballed the Amazon EC2 Windows build slave (too slow)

Roundtable

Status Updates

davida

last week:

• driving
• blockers
• faceting UI

this week:

• quick trip to MV
• driving
• blockers

Standard8

• Reviews & Driving
• Reworked the Release check list page to make it clearer and easier to use.
• bug 510378 Landed parts so that satchel is enabled on trunk (waiting approval for trunk)
• bug 511242 We now include nsBrowserStatusFilter in the build on trunk. This will pave the way for content tabs to have busy indications (and possibly favicons) in bug 511240
• bug 499306 Backend for retention-policy UI not initialized, tangled with XUL code
• bug 508381 Multiple failed login attempts when IMAP password is changed, even after clear of saved password.
• bug 463155 Add video/audio controls to message context menu, since the regular controls depend on JavaScript.

Tsk

• Last week:
  • Faceting testing and feedback
  • feedback to mozilla-qa about litmus 2

• upcoming week
  • Test day
  • Release testing.