Thunderbird/StatusMeetings/2011-03-08

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Current Release Schedules

Thunderbird 3.3 Alpha 3	Thunderbird 3.1.10
Code Freeze and build start: 14 Mar 23:59 Release: 15 or 16 Mar	Code freeze: 12 Apr L10n freeze: 12 Apr Builds start: 13/14 Apr QA with builds start: 13/14 Apr Beta period starts: Week of 15 Apr Final release: 28 Apr

Thunderbird Meeting Details :

• Tuesday, March 8, 2011 17:30 UTC (9:30am Pacific, 12:30pm Eastern)
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Agenda

• Who's taking minutes? --> rebron
• Minute taking Schedule. Talk to davida or dmose for schedule changes/additions.
• Note: this meeting is for interactive discussion. Feel free to ask questions!

Friends of the Tree

Thanks to our Friends of the Tree When adding someone to this section, please get their T-Shirt size and send it to [email protected] so that he can send them a shirt!

• Thomas Schmid for his great work on tab re-ordering and undo tabs on bug 468808.
• Archaeopteryx or helping out with testing for the quick release of 3.1.9 and thorough and speedy reviews, leading to more secure code for the GetAnAccount addon

Thunderbird Development

For more details, see also the driver meeting notes.

Feature Work

Account Provisioner:

• [Version 1.0.4] released, with some security fixes.
• It still needs some UI work to put free account sign-up in-frame.
• It also still needs some tests.

Search Integration:

• There's been no progress on this, since I was concentrating on other stuff.

Experiments

Thunderbird Conversations

Little progress, worked on core patches to enable spellchecking in the Thunderbird Conversations quick reply instead.

Compose in a tab

No progress this week. Works fine, the only feature left before releasing is draft autosave.

Ubuntu Unity Integration

The Messaging Menu is out on Labs and AMO. I've read some positive feedback to the project scattered around on Twitter and Planet Ubuntu. No direct feedback on the mailing list yet.

The Unity Launcher extension is underway. Screencast soon.

Trunk (Miramar) Development

• Alpha 3
• Branching
  • Starting to think about effects of mozilla-2.0 branch. Details coming soon.
• Help on fixing blockers would be very useful and appreciated, see this list of higher priority bugs.

Thunderbird Stability & Security Releases

• Thunderbird 3.1.8 and 3.1.9 released last week.
• Crashes have shown up some issues with the updater which are currently being looked at for the next release.
• Bug Lists: 3.1

QA Updates

• Maintaining Bugzilla
• tester's mailing list is low traffic you should subscribe to be warned when testing is going on.
• The QA page is going under a lot of maintenance old content is available here

Support

(If you support Thunderbird or write documentation to help support Thunderbird, please subscribe to the tb-support-crew mailing list and briefly introduce yourself to the list)

1. 763 new support topics (not sure why traffic is so high, last week 500) - Media:28Feb-6Mar2011-Community_stats_for_Mozilla_Messaging-1.png
2. Kitsune KB migration: [Project Plan], English Language KB Article Sprint this Tuesday and Wednesday,plan is to get localizers to start localizing on Friday
3. 3.1 Support Issues
4. See this week's Support Appendix for full Get Satisfaction metrics and other support details

Status Updates

See the Mozilla Status Board for status updates specific to developers.