Releases/Thunderbird 3.0a3
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Tracking document for the release of Thunderbird 3.0a3. See also:
- Remaining Blockers plus:
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bug 457886 Cannot send ISO-2022-JP email on Tb trunk(included) -
bug 314160 Typing focus lost when using any Midas buttons/selects except text color/hightlight color(shipping without)
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- Build Activities
- Website Activities
- QA Activities
- Post Mortem Notes
Who
- Overall lead: standard8
- Development / Web pages / Release notes lead:
- Build lead: gozer
- QA lead: wsmwk
- l10n lead: sipaq
What
- Thunderbird 3.0 Alpha 3
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Use Official Branding.use unofficial branding (no extra arguments required). - May want to be update from alpha 3 to beta 1 (beta channel).
- L10n builds:
- See mail/locales/shipped-locales
- Notes, 'be', 'fy-NL' were late-entries
- en-GB has two missing strings, these need to be checked again before releasing for Alpha 3.
Late l10n tracker
- bug 455801 (message header pane - one string change)
- Green at time of checkin: de, fr, es-ES, lt, ru, sk, sv-SE
- bug 455812 (nsAutoSyncManager should expose a scriptable XPCOM interface to allow monitor background download operations - one string change)
- Green at time of checkin: de, en-GB, fr, es-ES, it, lt, ga-IE, hu, nb-NO, nl, pt-BR, ru, zh-TW
- One away: sk, sv-SE, ja
Release Tracking & Schedule
| step | start date | est. duration | end date | status |
| planning meeting | 2008-09-16 | 1h | 2008-09-16 | complete |
| develop release notes | 2008-09-26 | concurrent through posting date | 2008-10-14 | complete |
| string freeze
tinderbox updated & blogged.
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2008-09-16 23:59 PDT | 2h | 2008-09-16 23:59 PDT | complete |
| testday for new features | 2008-09-18 | - | 2008-09-18 | complete |
| code freeze / tree closed for baking | 2008-09-23 23:59 PDT | 10 days | 2008-10-03 | complete |
| update shipped-locales with locales to include in the build bug 458002 | 2008-10-01 | - | 2008-10-01 | complete |
| code hand-off to build and en-US pull date/rev
date: 2008-10-03
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2008-10-03 | 4h | 2008-10-03 | complete |
| locales pull date/rev
Gozer tagged these on 2008-10-02 at latest version (see also PM notes) |
2008-09-28 23:59 PDT | - | 2008-10-02 | complete |
| heads up to QA testers | - | 2008-10-02 09:03 PDT | complete | |
| Get addons.mozilla.org updated with 3.0a3 bug 457930 | 2008-09-30 | - | 2008-10-01 | complete |
| Get crash-stats.m.c updated with 3.0a3 bug 457925 (note in future this may become a Webtools/Socorro bug). | 2008-09-30 | - | 2008-10-02 | complete |
| RCs built (all en-US builds/items) ftp server | 2008-10-06 | 2 days? | 2008-10-06 12:53:34 PDT | complete |
| RCs built (all non en-US builds/items) ftp server | 2008-10-06 | 1 day? | 2008-10-06 14:41:19 PDT | complete |
| Check builds for symbols (crashme!) | ||||
| website changes on trunk | - | 2008-10-14 | complete | |
| Announce RC builds ready for testing (newsgroups etc) | - | 2008-10-04 (2008-10-06 repost for build3+l10n) | complete | |
| QA tests RC builds | 2008-10-04 | 4 days? | 2008-10-09 09:25:00 PDT | complete |
| heads up to MoCo IT for push requirement (push of files to stage/mirrors/bouncer) - gozer sent email | 2008-10-09 | - | 2008-10-09 | complete |
| QA & release driver approve release to mirrors | 2008-10-13 | - | 2008-10-13 | complete |
| Build pushes download files to mirrors | 2008-10-13 | - | 2008-10-13 | complete |
| download page ready on staging site | 2008-09-26 | - | 2008-10-13 | complete |
| QA tests staged website changes (text, links etc) | - | 2008-10-14 | complete | |
| releasenotes, firstrun pages, early_releases, beta pages live on mozillamessaging.com | - | 2008-10-14 | complete | |
| QA download links | - | 2008-10-14 | complete | |
| release announced, and check the results
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2008-10-14 | - | 2008-10-19 | complete |
| Disable blocking-thunderbird3.0b1 flags (just using blocking-thunderbird3 flags after this release). | - | N/A Decided to leave this as it is for now. | ||
| (?) post-release testday for new features | - | N/A | ||
| post-mortem meeting | 2008-10-16 | - | 2008-10-19 | complete |
- Mozilla-central rev:
- plus
- bug 457886 attachment 341280 Checkin comment: "Bug 457886 Cannot send ISO-2022-JP email on Tb trunk. r,moa=smontagu,sr=bienvenu. a=Standard8,dmose for temporarily landing for Shredder Alpha 3"
