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Revision as of 18:23, 27 October 2011
Getting Involved
You can contribute to Thunderbird by:
- Spreading Thunderbird
- QA Testing - Test Thunderbird code.
- Extension development
- Writing a patch for Thunderbird.
Code Architecture
Current situation
Thunderbird code resides in "mozilla/mail", "mozilla/mailnews", "mozilla/toolkit", and "mozilla/chrome" directories.
Future
- Possible address book improvements
- Menu ideas
- Removal of RDF
- Removal of Mork - See bug 11050 and bug 382876.
- Shutdown service
- Supported authentication methods
- UI reduction
Module Owners And Review Rules
https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Mailnews_and_Mail_code_review_requirements.
Build
To get started, see the Simple Thunderbird build page on MDN. The Thunderbird:Build page has some additional hints.
Also, see Thunderbird/Infrastructure for information on builders, tinderboxes, try servers, etc.
Debugging
Community
If you need assistance in developing Thunderbird, feel free to head to the following IRC channels in irc.mozilla.org for discussion, or post in the Thunderbird development newsgroup.
- #developers, #maildev - Thunderbird developers usually hang out on both channels.
- Newsgroup - mozilla.dev.apps.thunderbird
Miscellaneous
- Code Name Planning for upcoming development versions