Features/Thunderbird 3

= Thunderbird 3 =

Summary
Upgrade Thunderbird to the latest release in the Mozilla 1.9.1 series. This equates to Thunderbird 3.

Owner

 * Name: JanHorak, ChristopherAillon
 * Email: jhorak at redhat dot com, caillon at redhat dot com

Current status

 * Targeted release:  Fedora 11
 * Last updated: 03-MAR-2009
 * Percentage of completion: 100%. Package built successfully into Rawhide.  http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=92162

Detailed Description
Rebase Thunderbird to the latest 3.0 release.

Benefit to Fedora
There are many improvements to the code in the Mozilla 1.9.1/TB3 branch including some nice performance wins. It will also give Fedora the latest release in the new line of code and prevent us from having a stale release which could potentially be EOL'd by upstream during F11's lifetime.

Scope
Rebuild Thunderbird.

Test Plan

 * 1) Same as the Firefox 3.1 plan, but run against Thunderbird.  The two have very similar codepaths since they are based on the same gecko.

User Experience

 * 1) Mail should be somewhat faster due to various improvements
 * 2) Better IMAP support
 * 3) New Add-ons manager (a la FF 3.x)

Dependencies
N/A

Contingency Plan
There is no turning back.

Documentation

 * http://www.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/thunderbird/3.0b2/

Release Notes

 * http://www.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/thunderbird/3.0b2/releasenotes/