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<div class="" id="magicdomid4"><span class="b"></span><span class="">At
the recent all-hands we had various discussions of what to
include in Thunderbird 3.3. This is the list of significant
things that we're going to be concentrating on.</span></div>
<div class="" id="magicdomid5"><br>
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<div class="" id="magicdomid6"><span class="">With regards to
schedule, this is currently mainly dependent on Account
Provisioning and Search Integration. I hope to be moving from
alpha to beta sometime in the next month or so once we get some
more UX affecting changes landed. For the actual release, we're
probably looking at sometime during Q2.</span></div>
<div class="" id="magicdomid7"><br>
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<div class="" id="magicdomid8"><span class="b"><b>Features</b></span></div>
<div class="" id="magicdomid9"><span class="i"><i>These features
will most likely block a 3.3 release. This list does not
include features or changes already landed (e.g. upgrade to
gecko 2.0, etc.).</i></span><span class=""><br>
</span>
<ul>
<li><span class="">Account Provisioning</span></li>
<ul>
<li><span class="">This is probably most at risk of missing
3.3 as it currently depends on resolving legal and
technical issues, some of which are out of our control.</span></li>
</ul>
<li><span class="">Search Integration</span></li>
<ul>
<li><span class="">This is integrating search engines into
Thunderbird, allowing searches from Thunderbird's UI.
Experimental add-on coming soon.<br>
</span></li>
</ul>
<li><span class="">Instrumentation</span></li>
<ul>
<li><span class="">We are investigating adding more hooks and
information feedback so that via an opt-in process we can
gather more data about users who download Thunderbird and
if they install successfully or not.</span></li>
</ul>
<li><span class="">Add-on manager</span></li>
<ul>
<li><span class="">This is already on trunk, but we need to
complete being able to see collections on AMO (bug 600367)
as that's the biggest bit missing from the Get Add-ons
pane.</span></li>
</ul>
</ul>
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<div class="" id="magicdomid20"><span class="b"><b>Significant Bugs</b></span><span
class=""><br>
</span>
<ul>
<li><span class="">"A" shortcut improvements (bug 511741 and
others) - major support annoyance so +1 Roland</span></li>
<li><span class="">Reducing the initial load on IMAP servers
when connecting Thunderbird (details still being worked out)</span></li>
<li><span class="s"><s>LDAP hang on shutdown</s></span><span
class=""> (already fixed by bug 544939/bug 343332)</span></li>
</ul>
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<div class="" id="magicdomid26"><span class="b"><b>Features and
other improvements we'd like to include if there's time</b></span><span
class=""><br>
</span>
<ul>
<li><span class="">Improved Personas integration</span></li>
<li><span class="">Feedback in a test-pilot / input.mozilla.com
style</span></li>
<li><span class="">Address Book improvements - see separate
thread</span></li>
<li><span class="">Account Wizard improvments (bug 549045)</span></li>
<li><span class="">Tab reordering (bug 468808)</span></li>
<li><span class="">Complete the Account Central rework (bug
489999)</span></li>
<li><span class="">Complete send in background (bug 511079)</span></li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="" id="magicdomid36"><span class="b"><b>Post Thunderbird
3.3<br>
<br>
</b></span></div>
<div class="" id="magicdomid37"><span class="">We've only done a
little thinking post 3.3 at the moment. At the moment, these are
the main bullet points:</span><span class=""><br>
</span>
<ul>
<li><span class="">Pluggable message store and enabling of
maildir.</span></li>
<ul>
<li><span class="">This is the move to the new storage
mechanism that David has been working on. It is intended
to land soon after 3.3 is branched so that it can get
plenty of testing before the next releases.</span></li>
</ul>
<li><span class="">Possible Gecko release changes</span></li>
<ul>
<li><span class="">Firefox are discussing releasing more
frequently. There are no firm details yet, but we expect
this will impact our releases on Thunderbird and we'll
need to consider that.</span></li>
</ul>
<li><span class="">Sync</span></li>
<ul>
<li><span class="">We've been thinking about incorporating
sync (aka Firefox Sync) into Thunderbird. We'll be looking
at this via an add-on first, so it may not get
incorporated straight away.</span></li>
</ul>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="" id="magicdomid45">Mark.<br>
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