Thunderbird/Driver Meetings/2010-09-21

Notetaker

dmose

Agenda & Notes

• Account Provisioning
  • privacy policy stuff to sort out; dmose owes
  • blake met with a potential partner

• 2.0 EOL
  • Update text on downloads page?
    • rebron to work with Standard8 to update wording, add EOL date of 2.0.0.24

• 3.0 EOL
  • Filed bug 598021 to investigate prompting 3.0.4 users with a major update.
  • Standard8 to drive experimenting with revising start pages to inform users about old/unsupported versions to provoke more updates
  • Standard8 to draft announcement and pass round drivers then tb-planning.

• 3.2
  • Standard8 needs to document flags
  • Otherwise still waiting for branching decision based on account provisioning.

• Trunk
  • Standard8 to bump trunk to 3.3a1 to match Bugzilla versioning
  • Tracemonkey builder
    • Standard8 still to discuss further with sayrer
  • libxul up for review.
  • Standard8 working on add-on manager in a tab
  • Electrolysis dependency on Places and better Firefox configuration similarity may induce us to enable Places & IPC as well

• 3.1.x and 3.0.x
  • 3.1.4 and 3.0.8 released.
  • Started landing some things for 3.1.5, including a lot of [tb31needs] fixes. Hopefully no separate mozilla-1.9.2 relbranch next time.
  • 3.1.5 and 3.0.9 schedules up.

• Anti-Virus Vendors
  • McAfee say that they have resolved the issue and are releasing an updated version in December 2010.
  • Standard8 planning to set up mailing list to inform partners, who have sounded receptive in initial discussions.

• Advertised major updates
  • 3.0 -> 3.1.x:
    • 11th Aug @ 10%, 13th Aug @ 25%, 25th Aug completely unthrottled.
    • 7th September: Major updates removed due to 3.0.7 release.
    • 3.0.8 -> 3.1.4 available manually from 17th Aug
  • Suggest unthrottling 3.0.8 -> 3.1.4 on Tuesday 28th as then that will mean they will have had a 1.5 weeks to upgrade
    • Standard8/rebron to write/publish 3.0 EOL announcement
  • 2.0 -> 3.1.x:
    • 18th Aug @ 10%, 31st Aug @ 20%
    • 2.0.0.24 -> 3.1.4 available from 17th Aug
  •  % ADUs across each build:

Date	2.0	3.0	3.1
11 Aug	47.7	33.2	19
30 Aug	40.5	15.7	43.8
7 Sept	34.1	13.1	52.2
13 Sept	30.7	12.7	56.6
20 Sept	28	12.7	59.3

• Conversion funnel
  • rebron to get more info from bcutler about funnelcake
  • next step: prep for funnelcake 3 (probably as part of 3.1.5)

Attendees

Standard8, roland, rebron, ludo, bienvenu, gozer, dmose