Thunderbird/StatusMeetings/2011-11-01

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Thunderbird Meeting Details :

Tuesday, November 1, 2011 16:30 UTC (9:30am Pacific, 12:30pm Eastern)
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Agenda

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

Action Items

Friends of the Tree

Thanks to our Friend of the Tree. When adding someone to this section, please get their T-Shirt size, phone number (needed for shipping!) and send it to rebron@mozilla.com so that he can send them a shirt!

Thunderbird Development

For more details, see also the driver meeting notes.

hoping to land both Account Provisioner and Open Search for Thunderbird 10 next Tuesday November 7th

Feature Work

Account Provisioner

OpenSearch

Test Pilot

Experiments

Thunderbird Conversations

Compose in a tab

Account Summary

Ubuntu Unity Integration

Schedule and Progress

Next merge date: 8th November
For information about channels, point people here - http://www.mozilla.org/thunderbird/channel/

Thunderbird 8

Final beta for 8.0 currently being generated.

Thunderbird 9

Add-on Compatibility update performed yesterday
- Caught up on these now, and add-on authors therefore have a much longer notification period.
- 325 checked, 309 bumped, 16 notified about possible issues (includes binary add-ons, but other issues as well).

Thunderbird 3.1.x

3.1.16 builds to beta channel tomorrow.

Extension of the week

Gantt View an extension for lightning - very handy for project managers as it let's you see related task and makes it easier for you to manage projects that are divided in multiple task. see https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Gantt_chart

QA Updates

Bugzilla work
Preparing a community based event for both Thunderbird and Lightning, see https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/thunderbird-testers/2011-October/000077.html, for the third week of November

Marketing Updates

Getting ready for Thunderbird 8 and Lightning 1.0
UDS this week.
Prepping for MozCamps, presentations.
Japanese survey in progress

Infrastructure Update

Build / Release Update

Thunderbird 8 beta 4 build 2
Need to take on bug 682805 - Generate snippets using new attributes
Slow Windows builds
Configuring Thunderbird builds on Firefox build infrastructure

Web Update

TB 8.0 product pages on staging, filing l10n bugs after meeting.
TB 8 -> 9 compatibility bump was completed last week
finishing kitsune l10n script today
AOL support in account provisioner next

Documentation

two new tech writing students doing a practicum with Thunderbird
update: AMO info about monetizing add-ons and updating AMO to include TB in agreements and docs (AMO folks are figuring out their end)
work with MDN folks to improve Thunderbird visibility on MDN
new article by contributor: Why has my "Send" button been replaced with "Send Later"
one major article edit by contributor; three major article edits by internal folks
15 responses to contribution inquiries
reminder: doc sprint for updating the FLOSS Thunderbird manual on November 9 (project wiki)

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)

1165 new support topics (1146 week ago) - Media:17-23October2011-Community_stats_for_Mozilla_Messaging.png
Thunderbird 7 Support Issues
Thunderbird 8 Support Issues - Please edit and add any issues found in TB8 starting with TB8 Beta 1
See this week's Support Appendix for full Get Satisfaction metrics and other support details

Lightning Updates

final release candidate for Lightning 1.0 thursday or friday with online support please test!
Talk at Berlin MozCamp about Lightning future
Lightning test event 3rd week of November in conjunction with Thunderbird test event: https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/thunderbird-testers/2011-October/000077.html