Thunderbird/StatusMeetings/2010-08-10

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Thunderbird Meeting Details :

• Tuesday, August 3rd, 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? --> _gozer_
• 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!

Conversion Funnel (Priority 0 side project)

• 31-40% success rate w/ ISPDB. No changes to top 10 missing domains: secureserver.net psmtp.com, ocn.ad.jp, rr.com, cox.net go2.pl ovh.net netease.com, att.net netsolmail.net, adding next 20 will improve success rate by 4%.

Thunderbird Development

Feature Work

3.2

• Flags for tracking purposes will be set up soon, with a wiki page explaining roughly what will be able to land etc.
• Waiting on account provisioning progression before setting up a relbranch.

Thunderbird Stability & Security Releases

• Bug Lists: 3.1, 3.0
• 3.1.2 released.

Major updates to 3.1

• Prompted major updates to TB 3.1.2.
  • Initial 3.0.6 -> 3.1.2 push: Wednesday, 11th August (delayed by one day due to AMO downtime).
  • Initial 2.0.0.24 -> 3.1.2 push planned for 17th/18th August.

Experiments

• Thunderbird Contacts add-on released
  • Lots of good press and comments
  • Update release planned for end of week
• Mailing List Manager update planned soon

QA Updates

• Worked on 2.0.0.24 -> 3.1.2
• Worked on 3.0.6 -> 3.1.2
• crash/ADU, current week

Marketing Updates

• ADUs: 5.2MM ADUs, 2.8MM on Tb 3.x, downloads steady between 90k - 100k on weekdays
• Press update:
  • Thunderbird Contacts -- Thunderbird gets web-savvy with Contacts few more articles: 1, 2, 3, 4
  • Tb 3.1.2 ~30 articles -- German article, 2 Japanese article, Polish article
• Evaluating PR firms, getting some good ideas.

Next:

• major updates, 2.x-3.x
• mtg w/ metrics team & speeding up web site 1, 2

IT update

• Major updates for 2.x and 3.0.x
• Releases (lower bus factor !)
  • Updates
  • Signing

• New TryServer is ready
  • With MozMill!
  • Switchover Thursday, 12th

Documentation

• away last week

Support

1. 3.1 Support Issues - nothing really major so far, seems to be better than 3.0.x - please add your support issues to the Discussion page of this wiki page; about:support being ported by sid0 (thanks!), firefox only rough port done, need to add Thunderbird smtp/imap/pop & then consider where to go next - features suggested by eric moore, features suggested by others? to be discussed on tb-planning
2. SuMoMo - localization console blocked - awaiting metrics team userid for web trends
3. gmail {smtp,pop,imap}.googlemail.com unexplained google server outage last Friday for 8-12 hours - awaiting google explanation (server glitch? dns outage?) - GS, Google support forum post where Google say they fixed the "culprit"
4. See this week's Support Appendix for full Get Satisfaction metrics and other support details -

Lightning Updates

• Bustage from xpcom reg changes finally fixed bug 576746
• Addon API patch also reviewed and fixed bug 563170
• Core xpcom bug needed for calendar is now fixed bug 579178
• jsval changes fixed bug 585717

Afterwards we should finally have green trunk builds again! Windows is green, Linux probably has a temporary red, mac is on its way.

Bug planning for 1.0b3 has started, a list of 26 bugs is proposed. See newsgroup thread

When we are done with this list, we can either release 1.0b3 or nominate a new set of bugs.

Status updates

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

Roundtable Highlights

Attendees