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To participate in this effort, you'll need to run different versions of Thunderbird than the one linked on the mozilla.com website. | To participate in this effort, you'll need to run different versions of Thunderbird than the one linked on the mozilla.com website. | ||
Daily testing is can be divided by [[ | Daily testing is can be divided by [[https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/channel/ |versions of Thunderbird]] that needs testing. Mozilla produces versions of Thunderbird every night, with new fixes and sometimes new bugs. | ||
* We need a number of people on the stable branch - as its name implies, the stable branch only contains fixes and doesn't see any new features. But by using these builds, you'll help make sure that we don't introduce new bugs in the next security and stability release. To use these either: | * We need a number of people on the stable branch - as its name implies, the stable branch only contains fixes and doesn't see any new features. But by using these builds, you'll help make sure that we don't introduce new bugs in the next security and stability release. To use these either: | ||
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*# Or switch your update channel to beta instead of release. | *# Or switch your update channel to beta instead of release. | ||
* We 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. | * We 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). | * 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 [https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/tb-planning Tb-planning] - Some coverage about less critical issues is available on the [http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewforum.php?f=29 Daily build thread at Mozillazine] | *# We also announce major issues when we are aware of them on [https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/tb-planning Tb-planning] - Some coverage about less critical issues is available on the [http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewforum.php?f=29 Daily build thread at Mozillazine] | ||