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You can help, even if you have no prior experience helping. You help another userother users, or help make Thunderbird better and enjoy the satisfaction that you have contributed to improving Thunderbird- no prior experience is necessary.
Below are just a few ways you can contribute to the Quality of Thunderbird. Each item has a specific page with more details.
* We also need people to use Alphas and Betas of the next major release. To run these just download one when they are announced and just keep using them.
* And finally we also need people to run trunk builds. These builds will contain all the new features of the next major release of Thunderbird and you don't need to wait for the next beta to see them. These builds are less stable than the others and get broken once in a while (I would say maybe once or twice per calendar year).
*# We also announce major issues when we are aware of them on planning list at [https://mailthunderbird.mozillatopicbox.org/listinfocom/tb-planning Tb-planningThunderbird discussion] - Some coverage about less critical issues is available on the [http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewforum.php?f=29 Daily build thread at Mozillazine]
When doing daily testing, it's a good idea you will want to have an account on [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org Bugzilla] to log , so you can report the issues you find (and please make sure to search bugzilla before filling new defects).
=== Maintaining the Test cases ===
== '''Moderate:''' Maintaining the bug database ==
The bug database aka [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org bugzilla/ Bugzilla] is the tool used track defects. The bug database is open to anyone who wants to help developers know about issues with Thunderbird.
Work in this area requires some experience just using Thunderbird (just a few months), and the ability to determine what the user reporting a problem might be seeing. You don't need great technical skill. It just takes a little time.
