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Suiterunner

This Mozilla Wiki section covers documents about the SeaMonkey Project, which develops an "all-in-one internet application suite", based on code of the previous Mozilla Application Suite.

For quick answers to common questions, please explore the SeaMonkey FAQ!

Status

The SeaMonkey project released SeaMonkey 1.0 in January 2006 and SeaMonkey 1.1 in January 2007. Security and stability updates are currently continuing for 1.1 only.

The next release will be a major update to SeaMonkey 1.1. Currently this is codenamed suiterunner. See the Development section for more information. Currently no expected release date has been set for this as there is still a lot of work to do.

History

In 2005, the Mozilla Foundation released a "transition plan" for the Mozilla Application Suite, in which they announced that there won't be any more official releases of the Mozilla Application Suite. At the same time they promised to still provide the newly created, mozilla.org-hosted, SeaMonkey project with needed infrastructure to do further development on the suite code and release it under the project's new name.

See also Release History

The team

A group of very active SeaMonkey developers make up the SeaMonkey Council, which is responsible for project and release management.

That doesn't mean we don't need an even bigger group of developers working on the product or taking responsibilities of certain areas in the project. We also need people doing QA and regular testing on our product. The development community of SeaMonkey is structured into project areas which cover different parts of the SeaMonkey project. Many of those still need help from more developers; if you want to lend us a hand there, please contact seamonkey-council@mozilla.org.

Here is a page with a list of the currently known supporters.

How to help

Our Project Goals document describes where the project is basically headed.

You can help by working on SeaMonkey QA as you use SeaMonkey. We need help testing changes for SeaMonkey 1.0.x, SeaMonkey 1.1.x, and SeaMonkey 2.0.

To get started with the project, join in the developer discussions in or mozilla.dev.apps.seamonkey or #seamonkey.

If want to contribute to SeaMonkey localization, please look into our Localization Teams list.

Development

In preparation for "SeaMonkey 2.0", the first step is that we have to get SeaMonkey to use the infrastructure of the new products - see the suiterunner page for more information.

The SeaMonkey:New for 2.0 document details the new features we should be picking up for 2.0, these are mainly as a result of the toolkit transition.

We also have a Suite Directory Layout document that describes how the new mozilla/suite/ directory in the CVS repository should be structured.