State of the Thunder 13: How the roadmap gets made

Welcome back to another State of the Thunder! In this episode, 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. Chapters 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 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