Re: Thunderbird Test week

On 5/26/2013 9:10 PM, Ludovic Hirlimann wrote:
> 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
> 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.
>
> Let me start with the formal way - as it’s the best way for us to know
> the level of quality we’ve achieved with the products.
>
>      download thunderbird at
> http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/all-beta.html and Lightning at
> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/lightning/#beta-channel
>       go to https://moztrap.mozilla.org/runtests/environment/293/ and
> start following the tests - try to also do test that have not been done yet
>       file bugs for anything not working at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org
> , and in the advance field make the bug blocking bug 870347
>
> 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.
>
> During the testing week we will be available for chat on #tb-qa (on
> irc.mozilla.org) to help you the best we can - please be patient as we
> might
> be there but not answer so quickly.
>
> Ludovic for the quality team.

See the thread "An add-on to count Thunderbird folders?" for a problem
I've already identified in 22b.