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State of the Thunder 10: Answering Community Questions!
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Welcome back to State of the Thunder! In this edition, we're taking more community questions on a range of topics. From improving Settings to the role of Add-ons and more, the Thunderbird team is tackling your most urgent inquiries! ★ Support this podcast ★By MZLA Technologies Corporation
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State of the Thunder 9: Answering Your Thunderbird Pro Questions
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In the latest State of the Thunder, we're answering your questions about the upcoming Thunderbird Pro offerings and introducing our new head of Community Programs. Michael Ellis is here to help us better serve our community, and he's placed a call for ideas on Mozilla Connect for ideas to improve the Thunderbird community: https://connect.mozilla.o…
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State of the Thunder 8: Eating Frogs, Roadmap Progress, and Fundraising
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Welcome back to the latest State of the Thunder! In this recording, we're eating frogs (metaphorically) and checking in on our roadmap progress, sharing our tips and tricks for Thunderbird development tools, and talking about the hows and whys of our fundraising campaigns. ★ Support this podcast ★By MZLA Technologies Corporation
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State of the Thunder 7: Extended Support Release 140 (and explaining our four channels)
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In this latest State of the Thunder, we're discussing the upcoming yearly ESR, 140.0, which is due out June 24, 2025. We explain our numbering convention and our different channels, which comes from Firefox, and the difference between ESR, Release, Beta, and Daily. Find out why we're encouraging to use the monthly Release channel, but how this won'…
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State of the Thunder 6: Release on Snap and flatpak, Accessibility, Mozilla, and building Thunderbird
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We're back with another State of the Thunder! In Volume 6, we're discussing the complexities bringing the monthly Release channel to snap and flatpak, increasing accessibility for assistive technologies, our relationship with Mozilla, why building Thunderbird is hard (and how we're trying to make it less so), and more! ★ Support this podcast ★…
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State of the Thunder 5: Setting Roadmap Priorities
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In the fifth volume of State of the Thunder, we're focusing on priorities. How do we begin on a priority roadmap project? How do we decide what to release and when to release it? And how do we adjust priorities for the benefit of our users? Additionally, we have news about Thunderbird Sync (!), what MZLA is doing to improve the open ecosystem, and …
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State of the Thunder 4: 2025 Roadmap Priorities
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Previously on State of the Thunder, we talked about how we created our desktop roadmap for 2025 and 2026. In this installment, we're diving into how we prioritize work on the desktop app and how we're trying to get better at completing our high-priority items. If you've ever wondered, "When is that feature going to land?" this State of the Thunder …
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State of the Thunder 3: Our Mobile Roadmap (Android AND iOS!)
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In the latest State of the Thunder, we're talking all about our mobile apps, currently on Android and coming soon to mobile. Sr. Manager of Mobile Engineering Philipp Kewisch leads the discussion on the the roadmap, responding to frequently requested features, and our predictions for the iOS Alpha. ★ Support this podcast ★…
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State of the Thunder 2: Bugzilla backlog, stability, and collaborating with the Council
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In our second State of the Thunder, we expand on the purpose of these meetings and go back to our roadmap. From there, we talk about bugs and stability, discussing how to tackle the backlogs of bugs in Bugzilla and whether Thunderbird is more or less stable now than in years past.We also chat about how to improve collaboration between MZLA and the …
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State of the Thunder 1: Working in the open on the 2025 roadmap
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In our inaugural State of the Thunder, Alessandro Castellani, Director of Desktop and Mobile apps, leads a discussion on the 2025 desktop roadmap with members of the Thunderbird team and Council. Beyond features, the chat covers our users, our values, and our commitment to working in the open. ★ Support this podcast ★…
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In our inaugural State of the Thunder, Alessandro Castellani, Director of Desktop and Mobile apps, leads a discussion on the 2025 desktop roadmap with members of the Thunderbird team and Council. Beyond features, the chat covers our users, our values, and our commitment to working in the open. Learn how to get involved at https://www.thunderbird.ne…
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The Thunderbird team has resumed our monthly Community Office Hours sessions, and the most recent was an open forum Q&A that focused largely on K-9 Mail and Thunderbird for Android. We also answered some of your questions about Thunderbird for Desktop, including Exchange support (it's coming)! Here's a lightly edited version of that session for you…
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The Thunderbird team is a remote-first, globally distributed group, so it made perfect sense to devote an episode to Remote Work! Join Heather, Chris, and Jason for some useful tips and tricks to make your daily remote work more enjoyable and more productive. We also include tips from ThunderCast listeners Pedro and Mike, who emailed us at podcast@…
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ThunderCast #4: Will The Real moz://a Please Stand Up?
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The Thunderbird team is back from the Mozilla All-Hands event, and we're overwhelmed in the most positive way. In addition to the happy vibes we're all feeling from meeting most of our colleagues in person for the first time, we have a lot of takeaways to share. in this episode Ryan, Jason, and Alex talk about how Mozilla is building AI tools for t…
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ThunderCast #3: Behind The Scenes of Supernova
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Hello Thunderbird family, and welcome back to a long-overdue episode of the ThunderCast! Ryan, Alex, and Jason get together to talk about the new features and improvements in Thunderbird 115 "Supernova." But they also share WHY those features were developed, and what's being worked on right now. Plus, Ryan shares some huge news about the future of …
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ThunderCast #2: Mozilla's Mike Conley & The Retro Internet Retreat
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Welcome back to the ThunderCast, the official podcast of Mozilla Thunderbird! In this episode, we're thrilled to welcome our first special guest: Mike Conley, Principal Software developer at Mozilla. Mike is a software mechanic, musician, livestreamer, and self-described "pre-internet phenomenon" among many other things. Creators & Guests Jason Eva…
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Welcome to the debut episode of the Thunderbird podcast, which we're affectionately calling the ThunderCast! It's an inside look at the making of Thunderbird, alongside community-driven conversations with our friends in the open-source world. We can't wait for you to listen! Here are some of the highlights from Episode 1: What to expect on future e…
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