Fresh off the press: Shredder alpha 1, the first alpha release of the next version of Thunderbird, is available for download! As I mentioned previously, we’re going to be calling the alpha releases of Thunderbird Shredder, to make sure that people don’t get confused and download unstable releases thinking that they’re “the final thing”. That [...]
Archive for May, 2008
Shredder Icon and artwork needed!
If you ever used a Firefox alpha or a nightly build, you know it’s called Minefield. As I’ve explained, we’re going to do the same for Thunderbird, using the name “Shredder”. Now we need some artwork! First order of business when I grew up would be the t-shirt design, but in this day an age [...]
Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 and SSL certificates
Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 was recently released to the world: yet another security release for Thunderbird. Yay, and thanks to all involved! All was well, until news came in through a bug report that one of those included updates is problematic for some users. Specifically, as part of making Firefox 2.0.0.14, we made a change in how [...]
inames: any hope?
So I have this nice short iname that I registered last year when I was poking around OpenID and the like. That registration is about to expire, and I think I have yet to use it except for testing purposes, in part because there’s no way when being asked for an OpenID to know whether [...]
Contagious user interface concepts
Every now and then, a UI concept is so good that it becomes contagious in fascinating and frustrating ways. I’ve run across two recently. The first is the iPhone touch screen. A few months ago, when I first got my iPhone, after playing with it for about 30 minutes, I went back to work on [...]
Vancouver Credit card recommendations?
I’m looking to change my VISA card, as the current one gives us points towards ‘stuff’, most of which I don’t need. I’d be more interested in cards that either served some sort of purpose (e.g. the VanCity cards) or points that are more useful, such as high-leverage travel frequent flyer miles on either flights [...]
Naming alphas
Software production is a lot like sausage factories. The end result is nice, but peeking behind the factory walls isn’t always pretty (cue scene from Tintin in America). It’s been educational to go through the process of picking nominations for the next alpha release, understanding the interactions between Gecko changes and the impact on Thunderbird, [...]
Thunderbird team needs help from Python/Perl build engineer
If you’re a Thunderbird fan but not interested in fixing some of the nasty C++ problems we tackle in the product, you could still be very, very helpful if you can help us with a little Python/Perl build problems. Specifically, Mozilla has a great system called “try servers” where one can submit patches against the [...]
