Thunderbird/Community Members
This page aims to list the community members who are currently contributing any type of work to the Mozilla Thunderbird project on a regular basis.
The form (e.g. list/table) and order or appearance is under consideration and new people/tasks are still added. The page is currently maintained by aceman.
Warning: This document is constantly work in progress.If you add a name to this list, please also link the Mozillans profile. Consider making some fields publicly visible.
Code Developers
Key developers / module owners / module peers
Produce much of the Thunderbird code. See Modules/MailNews_Core, Modules/Thunderbird and Modules/Chat for their respective roles and modules.
Kent James (:rkent) - also addon developer (e.g. ExQuilla for Microsoft Exchange, FiltaQuilla)
Joshua Cranmer (jcranmer)
Jim Porter (squib) [Mozilla staff member]
Neil Rashbrook (NeilAway (Neil))
Jonathan Protzenko (protz) [contractor ???]
Blake Winton (bwinton) - Thunderbird UX lead, [Mozilla staff member]
Magnus Melin (mkmelin)
Aceman (aceman) - Account manager UI, Filters UI, small tweaks anywhere, bug triage (BMO)
Siddharth Agarwal (sid0)
Florian Quèze (florian) [Mozilla staff member]
Patrick Cloke (clokep)
Richard Marti (Paenglab)
Josiah Bruner (JosiahOne])
Karsten Düsterloh (Mnyromyr)
Kai Engert (kaie)
Daniel Scruton (aleth)
Jorg K (jorgk) - mail compose window, language/dictionaries/spelling, M-C core editor issues
Developers
Regularly produce patches.
Ishikawa Chiaki - backend
:alta88 - RSS feeds
Suyash Agarwal (sshagarwal) - both backend and front end fixes
:nomis101 - Mac issues ???
Nihanth Subramanya (nhnt11) - twice Instantbird GSOC student and chat contributor
Upcoming developers
They are new to the community and produce occasional patches.
Atul Jangra (atuljangra) - IMAP and Instantbird fixes
Jens Müller (:tessarakt) - News
David Lechner (dlech) - IMAP
Zeyu (:car) - Filelink
Seamonkey developers
Contributing to Thunderbird via fixes/reviews in common MailNews code or build system. See Modules/SeaMonkey for their roles.
Ian Neal (IanN)
Justin Wood (Callek)
Philip Chee (Ratty)
Add-on developers
Produce add-ons for Thunderbird distributed via https://addons.mozilla.org.
Patrick Brunschwig - Enigmail
Jonathan Protzenko (protz) - Conversations
Axel Grude (realraven) - QuickFolders, quickFilters, QuickPasswords, Zombie Keys, SmartTemplate4, AMO editor
Leni Mayo - Zindus
Sebastian Hengst (Archaeopteryx) - add-on reviews, German TB translation review, add-on translation, German forum, light coding, updating outdated code constructs.
Andreas Wagner (TheOne) - Add-on reviewer and developer
Lightning
Philipp Kewisch (Fallen) - also Add-on reviewer and developer
Matthew Mecca - (mmecca (de77a95da9))
:Decathlon
Stefan Sitter (:ssitter)
MakeMyDay
Merike Sell (merike)
Quality Assurance / Support
GetSatisfaction
Provide user support and help with user problems on GetSatisfaction support site. See https://getsatisfaction.com/mozilla_messaging/people for more details. We list people with about 100 stars or 1000 replies.
Roland Tanglao (rolandtanglao) - Thunderbird Technical Support Lead [Mozilla staff member]
Wayne Mery (wsmwk)
Matt Harris (mattau (9282890794))
Vincent Plainfossé (cameleon (fecc26317d))
Chris Ramsden (Xenos (e79802539c))
Thomas
Stan
Anje Yelf
Steve Howes (sfhowes)
:sans
:JMN
:finitarry
:DavRo
:christ1
:Bernd S
Knowledge Base
Authors of articles in the Knowledge base at http://support.mozillamessaging.com/.
Jennifer Zickerman (jenzed) [Mozilla staff member]
Vincent Plainfossé (cameleon (fecc26317d))
Chris Ramsden (Xenos (e79802539c))
Thomas Düllmann (Thomas D. (ThomasD.bugzilla2007))
Tonnes
abhi0023
Bugzilla
Bug triaging on https://bugzilla.mozilla.org (BMO).
Ludovic Hirlimann (Usul) - QA lead [Mozilla staff member]
Wayne Mery (wsmwk) - also Knowledge base author
WADA
Thomas Düllmann (Thomas D. (ThomasD.bugzilla2007)) - also Getsatisfaction.com contributor
MozillaZine
Contributors to the MozillaZine forums and knowledge base at http://forums.mozillazine.org.
Joe Sabash (:JoeS1) - Thunderbird builds thread, testing nightly builds
Eric Moore (tanstaafl (32f0204256)) - moderator on the MozillaZine forums. Written some of the Thunderbird knowledge base articles there. Also a getsatisfaction poster.
Dean Strickland (:Bozz) - forum poster, also a Nightly tester
Joachim Herb - forum poster, also author of CompactHeader extension
:rsx11m - author of numerous MozillaZine Knowledge base articles. Nightly tester and patch contributor for TB as well as SeaMonkey.
Supporting organizations
Mozilla - Gervase Markham (gerv) [Mozilla staff member]
Ubuntu - Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson) and Micah Gersten
Mozilla-Japan - Hiroyuki Ikezoe
Redhat??? - Jan Horak (jhorak)
Testers
There are more than 25,000 [aurora and beta testers]. We can't list all of them here but their work is still appreciated.
Localizers
Translating Thunderbird into tons of languages.
Current localization teams can be found on the L10n:Teams page.
Marketing
Reaching out to the public and distributing information about Thundebird.
Benjamin Kerensa (bkerensa) - Marketing, Evangelism, Twitter/Google+/Facebook accounts
Other
Also check out https://mozillians.org/group/thunderbird/ for other people that support us.
Emeritus
Produced a good amount of contributions but unfortunately have left the project as far as we know.
- :Timeless
- Philippe Chiasson (:gozer) - build config
- mscott
- Serge Gautherie
- Seth Spitzer
- KaiRo
- ducarroz
- Andrei Hajdukewycz (sancus)
- John Hopkins (jhopkins)
- Ben Bucksch (BenB)
- Hiroyuki Ikezoe (hiro (956d4e5ce9)) - backend [Mozilla-Japan staff member]
- Makoto Kato (mkato (m_kato)) - backend [Mozilla-Japan staff member]
- Mark Banner (Standard8) - Ex-Thunderbird product manager, [Mozilla staff member]
- David Bienvenu (bienvenu (davidbienvenu)) - Ex-Thunderbird product manager
- Mike Conley (mconley) [Mozilla staff member]
- Andrew Sutherland (asuth) - gloda expert
- Irving Reid (irving) [Mozilla staff member] - performance expert
- Andreas Nilsson (andreasn) - UI/UX design
- Michael Pasek - #1 support contributor in 2010