ThunderCast

ThunderCast, the official Thunderbird podcast is back for another season! In this episode we focus on the upcoming ESR 153 release, codename Meadow. Roadmaps: https://roadmaps.thunderbird.net/ Developer guides: https://developer.thunderbird.net/ Ideas for Thunderbird desktop and mobile: https://connect.mozilla.org/ User support for Thunderbird desktop and mobile: https://support.mozilla.org/ Submi...

ThunderCast, the official Thunderbird podcast is back for another season! In this episode we focus on the contributor journey, analyzing what we currently have and what are our plans to improve jumping into the Thunderbird community. Roadmaps: https://roadmaps.thunderbird.net/ Developer guides: https://developer.thunderbird.net/ Ideas for Thunderbird desktop and mobile: https://connect.mozilla.org...

ThunderCast, the official Thunderbird podcast is back for another season! Let's kick things off with some insights on our roadmaps and what's ahead for our desktop and email clients. User testing discussions: https://thunderbird.topicbox.com/ Roadmaps: https://roadmaps.thunderbird.net/ Developer guides: https://developer.thunderbird.net/ Ideas for Thunderbird desktop and mobile: https://connect.mo...

As 2025 winds down, its time to start thinking of what we want to achieve for our Android AND iOS apps next year. Alessandro walks us through the 2026 mobile roadmap, covering our urgent priorities, feature wish list, and a glimpse at our upcoming design plans for the entire Thunderbird project. Resources:  Current Android Roadmap: https://github.com/orgs/thunderbird/projects/19 TB Pro Announcemen...

If you can believe it, Thunderbird for Android has been out for just over a year! In this episode of our Community Office Hours, Heather and Monica check back in with the mobile team after our chat with them back in January. Sr. Software Engineer Wolf Montwé and our new Manager of Mobile Apps, Jon Bott look back at what the growing mobile team has been able to accomplish this last year, what we’re...

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.m...

We're back with our twelfth episode of the State of the Thunder! In this episode, we're talking about community initiatives, filling you in on Android development, and finishing our updates on popular Mozilla Connect requests, including true Conversation View! (00:00) - Intro (01:21) - Austin RiverHacks (05:40) - Ask-a-Fox (15:13) - More Mozilla Connect Updates (16:03) - Native system notification...

State of the Thunder is back after a short hiatus for a new season of answering questions and providing our community with updates on all our products, from mobile and desktop clients to the upcoming Thunderbird Pro! In our first episode of the new season, Alessandro and new cohost Michael Ellis tackle a new batch of your questions with help from members of the Thunderbird team and community. Then...

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! (00:00) - Intro (01:56) - Supporting and Sustaining FOSS Projects We Use (05:49) - Future UI Settings Plans (14:05) - Account Setup and Manual Configuration (21:34) -...

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.org/t5/discussions/have-ideas-to-improve-the-thunde...

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 ★

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't take anything away from ESR. Learn more about wh...

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 ★

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 updates on Thunderbird Pro and the mobile apps. ★...

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 is worth listening to! ★ Support this podcast ★

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 ★

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 Thunderbird Council, and finish with technical di...

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 ★

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 to listen to. If you have questions for us to...

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@thunderbird.net. (You can do the same if something...

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 the good of humanity, and how our perception of AI...

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 the Thunderbird Project! It's a casual, unscripted...

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 Evangelho - Host Ryan Lee Sipes - Host Mike Conle...

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 episodes of ThunderCast We're hiring ! Is Thunder...