Thunderbird 38 release expectations

[R Kent James]

Thunderbird 38.0 will not ship on the same date as Firefox 38.0 but will
likely be delayed a couple of weeks.

We are approaching the originally scheduled date of the release of
Thunderbird 38, which would be May 12 following the standard Mozilla
release calendar. But there are still a number of regressions that we
are working on, and last week's beta was the first beta that was feature
complete. That means we will not be ready to ship according to the
original schedule. A current estimate of when we will ship Thunderbird
38.0 is approximately May 26.

Until we are ready to ship a finished Thunderbird 38.0, we will continue
to ship betas of Thunderbird 38 to the beta channel.

We'll do a new beta of Thunderbird 38.0 this week. At this point
mozilla-esr38 has diverged from mozilla-release, and it is mozilla-esr38
that is the correct channel for us to follow. So we will do future betas
of Thunderbird 38 from comm-esr38 and mozilla-esr38 (on branch
THUNDERBIRD_38_VERBRANCH) unless there are unforeseen technical issues.

(Thunderbird 38.0 is a major release, that will be the successor to
Thunderbird 31 which is our current release).

Kent James
Chair, Thunderbird Council

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[Mihovil Stanić]

I see you and team are doing great job on releasing next TB.
Thank you for it.

[Tanstaafl]

I for one would like to thank Kent and everyone else who is currently
working on Thunderbird. I admit I was a little worried when Mozilla
announced it was ceasing its active development support for TB, but I
actually feel like it is getting more and better attention now than it
was when it was fully under Mozilla's leadership/control.

Congrats! It looks like TB 38 will be the best release in a long time.

Charles

[Axel Grude]

Let me second that! Kent and the Tb-Planning group have done excellent work on Thunderbird over the last 2 years.

May I take the occasion to remind everybody who understands other languages (than en-US) to download a language pack or two from here:

ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/releases/38.0b4/win32/xpi/

and use quickLocale switcher to test the latest beta to make sure all Strings are complete for the release. As always I am looking at the German locale specifically,

regards,
   Axel
 
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Axel Grude
Software Developer
Thunderbird Add-ons Developer (QuickFolders, quickFilters, QuickPasswords, Zombie Keys, SmartTemplate4)
AMO Editor

Subject: Re: Thunderbird 38 release expectations
To: tb-pl...@mozilla.org
From: Tanstaafl
Sent: Tuesday, 05/05/2015 11:44:07 11:44 GMT ST +0100 [Week 18]

[Eckard Berberich]

Which strings do you mean?
I've installed the en-US.xpi and de.xpi language packs in my French
Thunderbird 38.0b4 version but I have abandoned the "Quick Locale Switcher".
I'm using the "Simple Locale Switcher" instead.

Regards,
Eckard

Le 05/05/2015 13:22, Axel Grude a écrit :

> May I take the occasion to remind everybody who understands other
> languages (than en-US) to download a language pack or two from here:
>
> ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/releases/38.0b4/win32/xpi/
>
> and use quickLocale switcher to test the latest beta to make sure all
> Strings are complete for the release. As always I am looking at the
> German locale specifically,
>
> regards,
> Axel
>