Thunderbird/Development

Getting Involved

You can contribute to Thunderbird by:

• Spreading Thunderbird
• QA Testing - Test Thunderbird code.
• Extension development
• Writing a patch for Thunderbird.

Introduction to Thunderbird code

Module Owners

The current module owners of Thunderbird are ...

TBD

Review Rules

TBD

Code Architecture

Current situation

Most of Thunderbird's code lies in ...(talk about mail, mailnews dirs, etc.?)

TBD

Future

• Removal of
  • RDF
  • Mork
• ShutdownServiceDocs
• ...

Miscellaneous

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