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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