Calendar:Status Meetings:2008-01-09

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Meeting Details

• Wednesday, January 9th, 17:00 UTC
• Phone meeting

Telephone Info

• Toll free numbers
  • US/Canada: 866-692-3163
  • Netherlands: 0800-020-1392
  • Germany: 0800-000-3441
• Participant Passcode
  • 3182189
• Conference controls
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  • Press *6 mute or un-mute individual line
• Each time you say something, please say your name first so people know who's speaking

Agenda Items

• Tracking 0.8
  • Seems we need more time until string freeze. Proposal: shift another week.
• Discussion of next face-to-face meeting
• Update on current download numbers

Meeting Log

• attendees: gary, mschroeder, christian, philipp, berend, mickey, simon, daniel, clint
• went thru the list of blocking bugs 0.8 by assignee:
  • clint: has worked on timezone registry
  • clint: will have a look at itip/imip bugs
  • daniel: proceeds with philipp on offline stuff
  • daniel: storage provider foreign timezone stuff has a pending review from mvl
  • daniel: other bugs fit into time range, except bug 402539 which is high effort and risky
  • mickey: focusses on l10n bugs first
  • mickey: will have a look at conversion bugs, pick those
  • mickey/christian: has written some more task-mode blockers
  • mschroeder: waits for l10n checkin; daniel will ping ause to do that
  • someone needs to catch mvl on IRC about the universal mac build; tinderboxen are not switched yet. what's missing?
  • daniel will ping ause on bug 400540
  • philipp: we should drop the default category colors bugs → done.
  • berend: works on task menu
  • berend needs some more days until string freeze
  • sebo's bugs have pending review from mickey
• We slip string freeze for another week, so the new date will be january 21st.
• philipp: pointed out some cool and interesting tinderbox upload stuff
• bug 410666: we decided to put our energy in releasing 0.8 soon, so we likely release before thunderbird 2.0.0.12 comes out.
• daniel will be attending CalConnect beginning of february.
• next face-2-face: philipp will post a proposal for may/june on the mailing list
• download numbers:
  • sunbird:
    • overall roughly 2 millions
    • 0.7 runs pretty good at about 330k
    • over 170k updates 0.5 → 0.7
    • sums up about half a million people are on 0.7
  • lightning:
    • 1 million on AMO
    • 300k on 0.7
    • same growth rate in terms of downloads as sunbird
  • we're gaining attraction: more downloads in the same period of time compared to 0.5
• gary: asked about what information developers prefer for crashes; mentioned bug 410998