Thunderbird/Development

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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

Code Architecture

Current situation

Thunderbird code resides in "mozilla/mail", "mozilla/mailnews", "mozilla/toolkit", and "mozilla/chrome" directories.

• Code layout
• LDAP situation

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

The current module owners and peers of Thunderbird are found here.

Review Rules

TBD - See this page for an example.

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