Releases/Thunderbird 2.0.0.12/Post-Mortem

This page is for notes from the Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 post-mortem meeting held on Friday, February 29, 2008 at 10am PST.

Agenda

General questions to think about:

• What did we do right? What worked?
• What did we do wrong? What didn't work?

Specific questions:

1. Why, in general, are Thunderbird security releases trailing Firefox security releases (leaving millions of Thunderbird users at risk) by increasingly larger intervals and is anything being done to address that? The problem seems to be getting worse, not better.

   Some data (yanked from the release notes pages for maintenance releases):

   2.0.0.12: Fx released 7 Feb., Tb release 26 Feb. (19 days)
   

   2.0.0.9: Fx released 1 Nov., Tb released 14 Nov. (14 days)
   

   2.0.0.6: Fx released 30 July, Tb released 1 Aug. (2 days)
   

   2.0.0.5: Fx released 17 July, Tb released 19 July (2 days)
   

   2.0.0.4: Fx released 30 May, Tb released 14 June (15 days)
   

2. Item 2 (change me!)