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Howdy all,<br>
<br>
I'd like to share with you what some of the quality plans are for
the next release of Thunderbird aka, Thunderbird 31.<br>
<br>
For 30 we are going to get two betas[0] one is currently being built
- and as soon as it's released I will ask people thru a blog post to
install it and use it until 31 comes out - because it will get
updates and will get you updated with everything. I'm very
interested in having windows users use it with theyr favorite
commercial extensions and repporting to those vendors (AV, fishing,
calendaring etc ...) issues they encounter.<br>
<br>
For the first beta I want people to use it and file bugs[3] (again
the bog post will contain a meta bug to link to , and if that last
sentence doesn't make sense let me know I'll explain with
screenshots ....).<br>
<br>
We'll have a second beta - for which I'd like to get way more formal
testing done using mozilla's moztrap[1] tool. There's a set of tests
written there that covers most of the funtionnality for Thunderbird
(it doesnt cover chat so if some of you want to add chat test let me
know and I'll give you the powers to add new test in to our pools of
tests). To make this work I've always asked people in the past to
sign up to participate - and then I would split the work and send
emails reminders manually to all the testers. I don't have the time
to do that this time - so I'm proposing to host a virtual event
using evenbrite[2] (I've used it in the past and got quite
sucesffull with it) - so I can moe easily communicate with your guys
(what do you think about that ?).<br>
<br>
For 31 we will also have 2 betas at least depending on what needs
fixing.<br>
<br>
How can you help ? <br>
<ul>
<li>Participate in testing is easy - just requires time and
reading some english</li>
<li>Translate this and post it to your local mozilla-community</li>
<li>Make the beta available on your favorite linux distribution</li>
<li>if you are an addon authors now is the time to test and fix
your addon.</li>
<li>Spread the word</li>
</ul>
Ludo<br>
ps if you want to help *now* please run the beta today.<br>
[0] <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/all-beta.html">http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/all-beta.html</a><br>
[1] <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://moztrap.mozilla.org">https://moztrap.mozilla.org</a><br>
[2] <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.eventbrite.com/">http://www.eventbrite.com/</a><br>
[3] <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Thunderbird">https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Thunderbird</a><br>
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[:Usul] MOC Team at Mozilla
QA Lead fof Thunderbird
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