We have received considerable feedback asking for UX/UI improvements and, as teased above, we will work on this in 2019. A More Beautiful (and Useable) Thunderbird Beyond that, we will be looking into leveraging new, faster technologies in rewriting parts of Thunderbird as well as working toward a multi-process Thunderbird. This is an area where I think we will see some of the best improvements in Thunderbird for 2019, as we look into methods for testing and measuring slowness – and then put our engineers on architecting solutions to these pain points. Our new hires will also be addressing UI-slowness and general performance issues across the application. Our hires are already addressing technical debt and doing a fair bit of plumbing when it comes to Thunderbird’s codebase. This opens up a world of possibilities for what we are able to accomplish, some of those goals I will detail now. Which will put us at as many as 14 full-time members on our staff.
As I pointed out earlier in this post, we start the new year with the hiring of some new staff to the Thunderbird team. Looking into the future, this year looks bright for the Thunderbird project. So, as we closed out the year I opened a bug where we can detail what documentation needs to be created or updated for new members of the community – to ensure they can dive into the project. Thunderbird is a big, complex project that isn’t easy to jump into. We still have some areas to improve on this year, with one of them being onboarding core contributors.
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Some even said they’d like to get involved, so we made a page with information on how to do that. I received many Emails detailing what our userbase loved about Thunderbird 60 and what they’d like to see in future releases. We heard from many users who were excited at the new energy that’s been injected into Thunderbird. If you are interested in contributing or following along, you can join the UX team mailing list here. They’ve also joined us in working on a new UX team, which we very much expect to grow with a dedicated UX designer/developer on staff in the new year. The folks at Ura Design worked on us on a few initiatives, including a style guide and user testing. That work was rewarded when folks came to help us out. A Growing CommunityĮarly in the year, a couple of members of the Thunderbird team visited FOSDEM – from then on we worked hard to ensure our users and contributors that Thunderbird was spreading its wings and flying high again. Hiring more staff (as mentioned above) will go a long way to having the manpower needed to build even better releases going forward. We’re going to build upon what made Thunderbird 60 a success, and work to address the concerns of those users who experienced issues with the update. We listened, and will continue to listen. We heard from users who upgraded and loved the improvements, and we heard from users who encountered issues with legacy add-ons or other changes that they hurt their workflow. Beyond big upgrades to core Thunderbird, Thunderbird’s calendar saw many improvements as well.įor the team this was also a big learning opportunity. We released the latest ESR, Thunderbird 60 – which saw many improvements in security, stability, and the app’s interface. Donations from individual contributors are our primary source of funding, and we greatly appreciate all our supporters who made this year so successful! Thunderbird 60 We hope that anyone reading this will consider giving to Thunderbird as well. The primary reason we’ve been able to do this is an increase in donors to the project. Most of these people with the exception of this author (Ryan Sipes, Community Manager) are engineers who will be focused on making Thunderbird more stable, faster, and easier to use (more on this below). At the beginning of this year we are going to be adding as many as six new members to our team. Our team grew considerably in 2018, to eight staff working full-time on Thunderbird. Looking Back on 2018 More Eggs in the Nest From the Thunderbird team we wish you a Happy New Year! Welcome to 2019, and in this blog post we’ll look at what we got accomplished in 2018 and look forward to what we’re going to be working on this year.
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