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<p>We’ve just released Thunderbird 22b and lightning a corresponding
version of lightning. Our next major release is due in a few weeks
with version 24. In order to catch anything that might have gone
wrong since the release of version 17.This week we need our users
to spend a few hours testing the <br>
applications, so that anything that might have gone wrong in
improvements and fixes since the last big release of version 17
can be caught. There are two ways to test, a formal way and a less
formal way.</p>
<p>Let me start with the formal way - as it’s the best way for us to
know <br>
the level of quality we’ve achieved with the products. </p>
<ul>
<li>download thunderbird at <a
href="http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/all-beta.html">http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/all-beta.html</a>
and Lightning at <a
href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/lightning/#beta-channel">https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/lightning/#beta-channel</a></li>
<li> go to <a
href="https://moztrap.mozilla.org/runtests/environment/293/">https://moztrap.mozilla.org/runtests/environment/293/</a>
and start following the tests - try to also do test that have
not been done yet</li>
<li> file bugs for anything not working at <a
href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org">https://bugzilla.mozilla.org</a>
, and in the advance field make the bug blocking bug 870347</li>
</ul>
<p>The informal way of testing is just to switch your daily usage of
Thunderbird to the beta version above and make sure that : you
send crash reports and you file bugs in bugzilla as described
above. </p>
<p>During the testing week we will be available for chat on <a
href="http://www.mibbit.com/chat/?server=irc.mozilla.org&channel=%23tb-qa"
title="Thunderbird quality irc channel">#tb-qa</a> (on
irc.mozilla.org) to help you the best we can - please be patient
as we might <br>
be there but not answer so quickly.</p>
<p>Ludovic for the quality team.</p>
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[:Usul] SRE Team at Mozilla
QA Lead fof Thunderbird
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