Thunderbird 2 Alpha Scheduling

Scott MacGregor

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May 30, 2006, 3:43:08 PM5/30/06

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Hey All,

David and I would like to do a Thunderbird 2 Alpha at the end of June. It would probably be followed up with a beta at the end of July and another beta at the end of August.

If you have significant feature work you want to finish for Thunderbird 2, will you be able to be have it done by the end of June? Is this a reasonable date for your work?

The current work David and I have on our list to finish up by the alpha includes:

1) Message Tags
2) Convert the Windows installer over to the new NSIS installer.

Cheers,

-Team Thunderbird

Axel Hecht

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May 30, 2006, 5:52:47 PM5/30/06

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What we're trying to do for Fx is to have the b1 be an l10n alpha, and
the b2 an l10n beta, hopefully getting the RCs in synch. Would that be
reasonable for tb, too? If so, we'll probably want to have a "major
string freeze" of sorts for tb at some point before b1, too. We're
aiming at two weeks prior to code lock-down for b1.

Axel

Torsten Curdt

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May 30, 2006, 8:28:07 PM5/30/06

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> If you have significant feature work you want to finish for Thunderbird 2, will you be able to be have it done by the end of June? Is this a reasonable date for your work?
>
> The current work David and I have on our list to finish up by the alpha includes:
>
> 1) Message Tags
> 2) Convert the Windows installer over to the new NSIS installer.

People are really craving for OSX addressbook support.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=203927
http://vafer.org/blog/tag/thunderbird

In order to get some more marketshare on OSX this is really mandatory.
My perception is that people just refuse to use an email client that
doesn't support it. This is not like on windows or linux - on OSX it's
really essential. IMO it would be really good to have that in 2.0. It
works quite well with the trunk patch.

cheers
--
Torsten

Laurent

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May 31, 2006, 5:05:42 AM5/31/06

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Hello

Scott MacGregor wrote:
> David and I would like to do a Thunderbird 2 Alpha at the end of June

> 2) Convert the Windows installer over to the new NSIS installer.

Where can I found information about the new installer design ?
Where can I download update files and what is the update format ?

Today, I work on tb1.5 installer customization to add dictionnaries,
modify special url like auto-update, themes, plugins and online help. I
have to rip official setup archive and .xpi with 7zip to do that. Could
I do the same things with NSIS installer ? If not, how could I do to
customize tb installation archive ?

Corporate deployment always needs internal certification about the
nature of the software which could be deployed.

Do you plan to create an administration framework to control
configuration and deployment ? Because auto-config file is not enough.

Thanks

Laurent

Solos

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Jul 1, 2006, 1:06:45 PM7/1/06

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Scott MacGregor wrote:
> David and I would like to do a Thunderbird 2 Alpha at the end of June.
> It would probably be followed up with a beta at the end of July and
> another beta at the end of August.

I would like to ask if everything went well and this schedule is kept? I
mean is Thunderbird 2 Alpha ready?

Regards,
Solos

David Bienvenu

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Jul 4, 2006, 12:02:44 PM7/4/06

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Solos wrote:
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> I would like to ask if everything went well and this schedule is kept?
> I mean is Thunderbird 2 Alpha ready?

No, we're planning on shipping Thunderbird 2 Alpha around the same time
FireFox Beta 1 comes out, perhaps a little bit after. I think it'll be
in about 1-2 weeks from now.

- David

Bill Northlich

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Jul 25, 2006, 1:41:04 PM7/25/06

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Are we there yet? Sorry, we are impatient... :-) Thanks
/b

Scott MacGregor

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Jul 25, 2006, 2:55:32 PM7/25/06

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http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=442986&sid=b25aa4e1cf7bb9e66caac3b5dd37a879

-Scott

Axel Hecht

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Jul 25, 2006, 3:52:36 PM7/25/06

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Scott, if you feel like having some locales ready for testing the
localizability of the new features, you may want to poke .l10n?
http://people.mozilla.com/~axel/tmp/ shows that there are some locales
tracking the branch, so it might be interesting to check that.

And ask build how they feel about it.

Axel

Bill Northlich

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Jul 25, 2006, 7:17:00 PM7/25/06

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Where to report bugs on the alpha? Not a Bugzilla wzd, tried main menu,
seemed to be only production bugs... Thnx
Bill