State of the Thunder 9: Answering Your Thunderbird Pro Questions

About this episode

The episode discusses the upcoming Thunderbird Pro offerings and answers community questions.

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-thunderbird-community/m-p/100264#M38972 Question 1: With these new services, will there be less effort spent on desktop and mobile? Answer: No! Lately we've added several new developers to our desktop and mobile teams. TB Pro is a collecting of projects (not products) that mean to coexist besides our core products and fill in missing pieces for users. Question 2: Why is Appointment being developed as a stand-alone? Answer: As a stand-alone, users can adapt it for their individual use, and core users don't have to use it if they don't want to. Also, this gives us time to help the underlying protocols add support for what Appointment needs to run natively. Question 3: Can you deploy Appointment on your own infrastructure? Answer: Yes! We know many of our users like to self-host and so we wanted…

People in this episode

Guest: Michael Ellis

Topics covered

• Thunderbird Pro
• community programs
• self-hosting
• desktop and mobile development
• user feedback

Keywords

• Thunderbird Pro
• Michael Ellis
• community programs
• self-hosting
• Appointment
• desktop development
• mobile development

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Mozilla

Products: Thunderbird Pro, Appointment

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