Thunderbird/StatusMeetings/2010-08-31

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Thunderbird Meeting Details :

• Tuesday, August 31st, 16:30 UTC (9:30am Pacific, 12:30pm Eastern)
• How to dial-in

Remember to press *1 to unmute yourself before talking!

Agenda

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

Action Items

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 rebron@mozillamessaging.com so that he can send them a shirt!

• Ben Bucksch for his work in automatic account configuration.

Conversion Funnel (Priority 0 side project)

Thunderbird Development

Feature Work

• Account Provisioning.
• Pluggable Mailstore.
  • About 50% done, and basically usable.
  • Got move/copy working with pluggable stores.
  • Worked on getting more unit tests to pass with pluggable stores. First 30 or 40 tests pass; fixed bugs that caused several tests to fail.

Experiments

• Looking for more feedback on Mailing List Manager
  • File: issue tracker
  • Give: user feedback
  • Gathering final feedback for coming updated release
• Updating MuteThread for wider release of some sort, hopefully this week. [1]

3.2

• Flags now set up
• 3.2 Branch on hold until account provisioning schedule is clearer.
  • Will bump trunk to 3.3a1pre in the meantime to reflect bugzilla flags.

Trunk Development

• Some libxul work started, bug 585947 is the tracker.
• Help on fixing up trunk welcome, see this list of higher priority bugs.

Thunderbird Stability & Security Releases

• Bug Lists: 3.1, 3.0
• 3.0.7 and 3.1.3 now out on beta channels.

Major updates to 3.1

• Now have more users on Thunderbird 3.1 than any other major versions.
• Thunderbird 3.0 updates being offered for all update requests.
• Increased rate of offers for 2.0.0.x users.

QA Updates

• Working on next releases.
• Weekly event started this week
• Our testers mailing list is quiet because we aren't working on the Next major release yet.
• Happy birthday Rafael!

Marketing Updates

IT update

• TryServer up-to-date (lots of new features)
• SpreadThunderbird significant backend upgrades

• Bugzilla Dashboard rocks!
  • My Dashboard

Documentation

Support

1. # of support issues on GS is up 20% from last week, starting to see a major update spike
2. 3.1 Support Issues - top major upgrade issues: auto-config manual override, inbox or mailboxes missing usually due to anti-virus or ":" in name or name having the string"Inbox", cannot send or receive email usually due to anti-virus, cannot connect; only real new issue seems to be isSmartFolder exception which causes messages not to appear - isSmartFolder exception GS - fix is in 3.1.3
3. great progress made in MoMo Support Dashboard side project, code by protz based on my non working :-) code (thanks!) active5.html work in progress, will add auto-refresh every 20 minutes and add following to the dashboard:last 5 created, last 5 updated, top 5 email providers, top 5 contributors; dashboard coding help wanted, email roland AT mozillamessaging.com
4. See this week's Support Appendix for full Get Satisfaction metrics and other support details -

Lightning Updates

Nothing much new this week

• Fixed a few bugs
• Symbols are working
• Tryserver Calendar works with a patch, will blog about it soon.

Status updates

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

Roundtable Highlights

Attendees

bienvenu standard8 roland ludovic gozer wsmwk