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
(06:24) - Writing next year's roadmap
(12:16) - Community contributions in the roadmap
(24:43) - Engage with the project
(27:56) - How we incorporate feedback
(29:24) - Why telemetry is important
(33:12) - How people can see our roadmaps

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