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Today is a Thunderbird testday

Thu, 24 May 2012 08:11:43 GMT

Details at https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird:QA_TestDay:2012-05-24

Look ma we got ourselves a twitter account

Wed, 7 Mar 2012 08:09:16 GMT

mozthunderbird Is the official Mozilla Thunderbird twitter account.

The price of spam

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 19:10:44 GMT

As received in a spam email :

Whatever and wherever your needs . . . we have your solution.
Electronic messaging service

Available databases: (We have any database if you need)

USA 89 000 000 address - 700 EUR (1000 $)
CA 18 000 000 address - 350 EUR (500 $)
GR 60 000 000 address - 700 EUR (1000 $)
UK 39 000 000 address - 500 EUR (750 $)
FR 50 000 000 address - 500 EUR (750 $)
EU (can offer any country separately) 430 000 000 address - 1000 EUR (1500 $)
Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) 32 000 000 address - 400 EUR (600 $)
Russia 19 000 000 address - 200 EUR (300 $)

HIGH QUALITY MESSAGING!!! THE LOW PRICE!!!

Want to understand certs ? SSL and friends ?

Mon, 6 Feb 2012 12:42:56 GMT

My friend kaie made a very nice and explanative talk at fosdem on the subject. It's now available for reading in pdf at http://kuix.de/fosdem2012/fosdem-2012-talk-kaie.pdf

Major Update testday this coming Thursday , January 26th 2012

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 10:39:57 GMT

On January 26th 2012 , the Thunderbird team is organizing a Testday. Our objective is to make sure that we aren't breaking anything for people that will update from 3.1.x to 10.

Instructions on how to participate and how to join are available here : https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird:QA_TestDay:2012-01-26

What's the best way to announce a pgp / gpg keysigning party ?

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 11:49:48 GMT

I'm organizing a Key-signing party - I've contacted people on biglumber.com. I'll probably post the event on upcoming.org. I will contact the local LUG. What else should I do to get more people to attend ?

The tram got of the rails this morning in front of my house

Thu, 5 Jan 2012 18:39:20 GMT

So I filmed it. Framing is bad and part of the image is missing because I exported the video in HD. I'll do better next time.

Third call for sessions for the FOSDEM cross-distribution miniconference

Thu, 29 Dec 2011 07:39:47 GMT

FOSDEM is a yearly conference that takes place in the campus Solbosch of
the Université Libre the Bruxelles, in Brussels, Belgium. The upcoming
edition of FOSDEM will happen during the first weekend of February, that
is, the 4th and 5th of February, 2012.

During the past two editions, there has been a distributions
miniconference at FOSDEM, inviting talks from all distribution projects.
Distributions that have cooperated in the past include Debian, Fedora,
CentOS, openSUSE, Mandriva, NixOS, and more.

The distributions miniconference will happen again this year, and we are
still seeking proposals for sessions.

I've sent out two previous calls for sessions for the miniconference
that set the deadline for talk proposals to December 22nd, 2011, which
is tomorrow.

A list of current proposals can be found at
.
There are some interesting proposals there, but unfortunately there
aren't enough; we'll have two rooms for two days, which means we'll have
around 32 hours worth of talk slots.>

A variety of sessions are welcome; round-table talks, BoFs as well as
presentations, on any subject related to distribution development.
Sessions can be about a subject specific to one particular distribution,
or can be targetted to distribution developers in general.

As said, the original deadline was December 22nd, but I am hereby
extending the deadline until January 1st, 2012.

People interested in holding a talk or chairing a BoF or round table are
hereby invited to submit a proposal to the
distributions@lists.fosdem.org mailinglist (moderated for
non-subscribers), containing the following information:

- their name,
- a (short) bio,
- a title for the session,
- an abstract for the session,
- an expected duration for the session, including time for questions by
the audience.

Note that the distributions@lists.fosdem.org mailinglist may also be
used to discuss possible BoFs or round tables before actually formally
proposing a session, or for general discussion relating to the
miniconference.

Lightning and Thunderbird testing week, a post mortem.

Tue, 22 Nov 2011 11:12:02 GMT

Last week we had our last (to date) community testing effort and the focus was Thunderbird 10 and Lightning 1.0. This was a first for me, dealing with two products during the same week and dealing with a product I don't use too much. I was not too confident that the test cases available for Lightning were up to date - but I thought that some testing was better than none. So I did My usual call to testers using the too many ways we have to do that :

Mail to testers

Newsgroup post

blog post

mozillazine post

And I didn't do that on the same day but on the course of two weeks. And I got a bit stressed and worried because the numbers of answers I got was very low. And then Philipp posted on the Calendar blog and my mailbox got filled with people willing to spend some time testing.
The plan was to send instructions when I would get back from mozcamp in Berlin and start the testing effort. Unfortunately I came back sick and was in bed for most of the testing week. I did send instructions and then left my computer unattended for the week as I was sleeping and fighting fever. The instructions I sent did the job for most of the volunteers that had signed up for Thunderbird testing but were confusing to say the least for the many new comers who had signed up for Lightning.

I would like to apologize to the people who wanted to help but got confusing instructions f from me.
I would like to thanks standard8 for getting into #tb-qa and answering people.

And I would like to point out our results :

Thunderbird - 81% coverage and 15 bugs found

Lightning - 38% coverage and 4 bugs found

And I've learned a lot on something I thought I mastered so next time it won't happen the same way for sure.

Mozilla Camp Eu 2011

Mon, 21 Nov 2011 17:05:51 GMT

Last week-end I had the pleasure to attend MozCamp Europe 2011 in Berlin, Germany. As always those events are for me the occasion to meet the people involved in the product I work on.

It was interesting to listen to old face that were ranting. It was nice to see and meet new people or people I wouldn't expect to see in Berlin (nice idea to mix an AMO editors meeting with the event). I arrived a bit late on the first evening, but not as late a some, so I had the pleasure to enjoy a german-like diner and the time to meet most of the french crowd that was around. Giving us a taste of history as our first social act was nice - even If i had seen the video before. Ended up having drinks with a few old timers and that did wrap up the evening.
Like in whistler I shared my room with Tonnes - a contributor from the Netherlands. Tonnes mind you translate most of the knowledge base article from both sumo and sumomo. While we chatted he told me that was roughly around 20 hours of his time devoted to the task on a weekly basis (a good part of it being sucked into following what Mozilla does and where it goes).
The next day started with a bunch of updates on where Mozilla was going and that was quite interesting - even if I skipped the end to go sign up some pgp keys with two Berliners.
The afternoon was pretty packed - with JB presenting's his vision of where Thunderbird will go. Then Protz giving a 101 demo on how to build and make interesting extensions for Thunderbird - Both presentation had full rooms (room name was mosaic) - which was better than what we had achieved at the last mozcamp. I then followed Florian's presentation of Instantbird - and I still owe him a why I prefer Adium email.
We ended the day having diner in a cave - diner was nice but the place was a bit crowded and very noisy for some. I did meet a new mozillian over diner - but I believe that it was more due to luck than anything else (big hello to mcsmurf).
The next day was more based around private conversation and introducing people to each other. Overall a very long week-end but very productive too. Of course I ended up taking pictures and they are available on flickr.