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And another!
Blake Winton describes another feature we want feedback from, especially from people concerned about upgrading from Thunderbird 2 to Thunderbird 3. Try the add-on and let us know what you think!
Feedback needed on a cool future thunderbird feature
Hey, thunderbird users — go check out this post by bryan clark on a cool new feature we’re working on. We need your feedback!
Upcoming trips
As usual, I’m happy to coordinate and meet with people, whether for meals, drinks, or regular meetings. I’ll be: In San Francisco and Mountain view next week, from Tuesday night till Friday evening. In Quebec, Oct 9 & 10, for CLLAP, where I’ll give my first talk in French. Brr. In Barcelona, Oct 25 & [...]
OSCON
OSCON is the conference that I seem to attend the most regularly. In particular, the hallway conversations are great. Not being a Perl guy, I never went to the Perl Conference, but I was involved in organizing the first Python track at the first OSCON IIRC, and I think I’ve been every year since. This [...]
Linux smoketesters needed
UPDATED: see the end As part of a release (say, for the sake of illustration, the next alpha of Thunderbird), we try to run the software through a set of tests. The more widespread the release, the more tests. Nightlies don’t go through any non-automated tests. The final release will go through a lot. For [...]
Notes from Germany
I spent much of last week traveling to Germany — Berlin and Hamburg. Time for an update. I started off with a day-trip to Berlin, which could have been exciting given my complete lack of German, but I spent it instead with Axel Hecht, localization coordinator for Mozilla, which meant that the chances of my [...]
Vancouver 1, Toronto 0
I’ll take our view over theirs any day, but especially today.
Back
Back from almost 10 days without access to the net, email, etc., and after some exploration of the Yucatán peninsula in Mexico. Swam in warm caribbean waters yesterday morning, and stared at a snowstorm this morning. I can’t remember the last time I was so disconnected from the net. Recommendations: * Cochinita pibil from a [...]
