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State of the Thunder 13: How the Roadmap Gets Made

State of the Thunder 13: How the Roadmap Gets Made10. Okt. 202553 Min.

Welcome back to another State of the Thunder! In this episode, Managing Director Ryan Sipes is leading us through how the Thunderbird roadmap. Unlike other companies where roadmaps are driven solely by business needs, Thunderbird is working with our community governance and feedback from the wider user community to keep us honest even as we move forward.

Resources:

Mozilla Manifesto: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/manifesto/

Share big ideas: https://connect.mozilla.org

Report desktop bugs: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org

Report Android bugs: https://github.com/thunderbird/thunderbird-android/issues/

Engage with the Thunderbird Council: https://council.thunderbird.net

Desktop roadmap: https://developer.thunderbird.net/planning/roadmap

Mobile roadmap: https://developer.thunderbird.net/planning/roadmap

(00:00) - Intro

(00:19) - How a software roadmap gets made

(02:27) - A brief history of Thunderbird