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 Currently Active Drivers
 * David Ascher (dascher)
+* David Bienvenu (bienvenu)
+* Bryan Clark (clarkbw)
 * Magnus Melin (mkmelin)
 * Dan Mosedale (dmose)
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 The main tool of thunderbird-drivers is a rough prioritization of bugs done with a couple of flags:
-; Blocking: bugs that we think we would actually hold a release for, rather than ship without.  Note that as new information appears and time passes, the bugs that are considered blocking+ are likely to change.  If you think a specific bug is likely to be important enough that we shouldn't ship without it, please nominate it to block the appropriate release.  Do keep in mind, however, that there are many more desirable bugs features than can possibly be shipped in any given release.
+; Blocking: a bug that, if it were the last unfixed bug, we would hold a release for, rather than ship without.  Note that this implies that fixing the bug is worth the time-value of not having the rest of the release in hands of end-users for that much longer.
-; Wanted: a restricted set of things that thunderbird-drivers think would be nice to have, but that we would be willing to ship without.  Because we'd like driving to be a low-touch process, we'd generally discourage people from requesting wanted flags directly, though it currently is allowed.
+; Wanted: a restricted set of things that thunderbird-drivers think would be nice to have, but that we would be willing to ship without.  Note that wanted- doesn't mean that we wouldn't accept a patch; it means that we're not actively devoting any energy in trying to get this into Thunderbird 3.
+Note that as new information appears and time passes, the bugs that are considered blocking+ and wanted+ are likely to change somewhat.
+Do keep in mind, also, that there are many more desirable bugs & features than can possibly be shipped in any given release.  A particular bug not making the cut for this next release doesn't necessarily mean it's not important, but it _does_ mean that thunderbird-drivers feels that there other are bugs that are even more important to devote some of our limited resources to.
 === How to use flags ===