Back in October things were looking very gloomy for Thunderbird. It was a bit of a double-whammy when Scott McGregor, Thunderbird lead engineer and David Bienvenu, developer announced they were leaving Mozilla. These announcements came about a month after, then CEO Mitchel Baker announced the split-off to Thunderbird Mail Corporation (MailCo, now known as Mozilla Messaging). Finally, some good news to report about Thunderbird. In his blog entry, Progress Update, David Ascher has announced Mark Banner (Standard8 on IRC) has signed on as a full-time on Thunderbird (effective next month). One of the projects that Mark will finally have time…
March 2008
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I stumbled upon a link to the In-progress Releases page on the MozillaWiki via David Ascher. Over the next 30 days expect to see new releases for Fx 2, Fx 3 and Thunderbird 2: Firefox 2.0.0.13 is scheduled for release on or around March 25th. This has already been confirmed in the last Weekly Update meeting on March 10th. I also noticed this past Friday my Fx 2 nightly builds had been bumped up to Fx 2.0.0.14pre. Fx 2.0.0.13 should be released to the Beta Channel later this week. Firefox 3.0b5 is scheduled for release on or around March 27th….
I don’t recall off hand where in the Betas I had made the switch to Firefox 2 as my default browser. Since I been hearing how good (and for the most part stable) Firefox 3.0 Betas are now, I am going to make the switch over very soon.
Here’s an overview of this week’s Update Meeting: Fx 2.0.0.13 Updated Release Schedule: Code freeze (semi-slushy): March 7 Builds start: March 10 QA starts: March 11 Release to beta channel: March 18 Final Release: March 25 or March 26 Firefox 3 Beta 4 Tested B4 RC1 until bug 421528 was discovered Tested respin to B4 R2 over the weekend Hosted the Firefox 3 Beta 4 Testday 375 Tests run by the Community. 12 active testers from the community participated. MrWhsprs wins the award for the most tests executed with 101 tests. No critical bugs found! Exactly 100 blockers (13 P1,…
CyberNet News announced earlier Mozilla has released Beta 4 of Firefox 3. I am not all the certain if this is the final version of Beta 4. Normally, Mozilla does not do version releases first thing on Mondays, the release notes still say Release Candidate plus there was a re-spin or two on the Windows builds just on this past Friday. Also on Friday was the Community Test Day where they did use the release candidate for testing. Further Mozilla has a ‘releases’ section designated for ‘Betas’ (http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-beta.html) and Beta 4 is not listed there. The Weekly Update Meeting is…
…what is planned and what should be included I am looking over the freshly updated Thunderbird 3 Status Meeting notes from Tuesday’s (March 4th) meeting this evening. Direct calendar integration, instead of the external Sunbird Application or Lighting Extensions seems the big ‘must-have’ feature for TBird 3. Honestly, this is not on the top of my list of features. I have and continue to us Yahoo’s Calendar (FYI the Guru is not a big fan of Google). It is simple and is part of my Yahoo! Start Page. But also because I just use TBird just to manage my e-mail….
…what is planned and what should be included I am looking over the freshly updated Thunderbird 3 Status Meeting notes from Tuesday’s (March 4th) meeting this evening. Direct calendar integration, instead of the external Sunbird Application or Lighting Extensions seems the big ‘must-have’ feature for TBird 3. Honestly, this is not on the top of my list of features. I have and continue to us Yahoo’s Calendar (FYI the Guru is not a big fan of Google). It is simple and is part of my Yahoo! Start Page. But also because I just use TBird just to manage my e-mail….
The Firefox 3/Gecko 1.9 development team has decided there needs to be a Beta 5 release of Firefox 3. …based on the number of blockers remaining. This additional beta will ensure that changes which may affect website compatibility and changes which affect the user experience will get exposure to a wider audience for feedback and regression testing. The string freeze is expect this Friday, March 7th with a code freeze on March 18th. They say Beta 5 will be the last milestone for string changes. No word as of yet on a release date for Beta 5, especially given Beta…
Starting today, there will be a Thunderbird Status Meeting every Tuesday at 9:30 AM Pacific (12:30 PM Eastern). This week’s meeting is going to cover getting ready to go to Alpha 1 on Thunderbird 3 as well as calendar integration and which extensions should be come standard features. The complete (or at this time incomplete) notes of today’s meeting can be found here. Source: David Ascher
Starting today, there will be a Thunderbird Status Meeting every Tuesday at 9:30 AM Pacific (12:30 PM Eastern). This week’s meeting is going to cover getting ready to go to Alpha 1 on Thunderbird 3 as well as calendar integration and which extensions should be come standard features. The complete (or at this time incomplete) notes of today’s meeting can be found here. Source: David Ascher