Thunderbird/StatusMeetings/2011-08-09

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Thunderbird Meeting Details :

• Tuesday, August 9, 2011 16:30 UTC (9:30am Pacific, 12:30pm Eastern)
• How to dial-in

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Agenda

• Who's taking minutes? --> rebron
• Minute taking Schedule. Talk to Standard8 for schedule changes/additions.
• Note: this meeting is for interactive discussion. Feel free to ask questions!

Friends of the Tree

• No nominations this week.

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Thunderbird Development

For more details, see also the driver meeting notes.

Experiments

Ubuntu Unity Integration

• Unofficially, mission accomplished!
• Canonical will bundle my EDS Contacts Integration add-on with Thunderbird after the next beta is released
• I've started poking at the EDS provider for Lightning - might try to flex some muscle on that

Schedule and Progress

Thunderbird 6

• Releasing final beta today or tomorrow.
  • 48 locales in this release.
• Final builds should start on Wednesday or Thursday.
• Add-on compatibility bump happening on Thursday or Friday
  • We're aware this is late, will be able to improve and do this earlier from now on.
• Releasing on the 16th August assuming no issues found.

Thunderbird 7

• Merge to beta on 16th August - next week, we'll start beta builds soon after.

Thunderbird 8

• Merges to Earlybird on 16th August.

Thunderbird 3.1.x

• 3.1.12 released on the beta channel.
• Bug Lists: 3.1

Extension of the week

bugmail A nice extension that adds value if you receive plenty of bugspam. Say you have a Thread of emails and start reading it, with that extension you'll know the status of the bug at the beginning of the thread. Combined with the magic r keyboard shortcut you can be way more efficient at reading your daily bugmail. Bugzilla, Trac, Flyspray and Launchpad are the currently supported bug systems.

QA Updates

Working on releases mostly.

Support

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

1. 1993 new support topics (1938 2 weeks ago) - Media:1-7August2011-Community_stats_for_Mozilla_Messaging.png
2. Thunderbird 5 Support Issues
3. Started Thunderbird 6 Support Issues in preparation for TB6 release. Please edit the page and add any issues found in TB6 Beta 1, 2, 3 and release
4. See this week's Support Appendix for full Get Satisfaction metrics and other support details

Lightning Updates

Unfortunately I can't make it to the meeting today. As discussed with the Thunderbird Drivers, Lightning needs to return to non-beta version numbers as fast as possible. I will be attempting to release Lightning 1.0 together with Thunderbird 7, so on September 27th.

To achieve this goal, I have further condensed the buglist to a very small number. Despite exams I'm going to try to fix these bugs in the next weeks, so we can broaden testing to make 1.0 as good as possible. Please take a look at Calendar_Talk:1.0_Product_Planning#Version_2:_Together_with_TB7 and let me know if there are any more urgent issues that you think need to be taken care of in 1.0.

Status Updates

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