Firefox Summit 2008 - Thunderbird session proposals

[Mark Banner]

For those that have been invited/are coming to the Firefox Summit 2008
we have the opportunity to put forward some ideas for proposals for
sessions (http://wiki.mozilla.org/Summit2008/Sessions/Proposals).

There are already some good ideas down under the
Messaging/MailNews/Thunderbird Related section.

At the moment there is one session called "MailNews Refactoring" this
sounds like a very big topic and I wonder if it is better to split it
down into smaller sessions? It'd be useful if someone could tell me what
the original intention of this session was.

There are several thoughts that I have had relating to discussions that
I know have been around and I consider are ongoing:

a) Account Types and Address Book Types, how should we register, manage
and create them?
b) Address Book Interface reorganisation, will the proposed
infrastructure meet our needs?
c) Address Book, the future, how will continue? Will it be a wrapper
around other address books? How do we extend other address books with
our functionality.
d) Autoconfiguration of accounts - How should this be managed? What do
we currently have available?

I'm not sure a and b are large enough for a session on their own. Maybe
they could combine if folks think they would be useful.

There's also some other topics I've come up with:

1) Automated Performance Measures for MailNews - What should we measure,
how should we measure/analyse it?
2) Writing and debugging automated tests within MailNews - What are the
issues particular to mailnews? This may be a better session if I've had
time to come up with how to do chrome-level tests within
MailNews/Thunderbird.

Maybe others can come up with some more thoughts for both these lists
and any other ideas?

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