And when I awoke, I was alone;
this bird had flown.
this bird had flown.
Spread SeaMonkey!
This is a portal for information concerning the new SeaMonkey development efforts. The official site for the new development effort is maintained on the Mozilla wiki.
What you can do to help!
- Identify and work on bugs that can be fixed to move the roadmap forward. Once we move furthur along the roadmap, we can explore a lot of the neat and crazy ideas people have for the Suite. If you don't have a BugZilla account, make one now!
- Learn about the technologies going into the new development effort:
- The XPFE and the "New Toolkit" that will replace it.
- XULrunner
- Look at, use, and/or contribute to the collection of SeaMonkey marketing materials.
- Remain optimistic. You're not the only one who loves the suite, a lot of people do. Negative comments, sad emoticons, and what have you bring everyone else down and hamper community enthusiasm and effort.
- Familiarize yourself with other peoples' ideas for the future of SeaMonkey, and let their ideas influence yours. We need to keep an open mind for the fate of a project plagued with uncertainty. Do not try to enforce your ideas into discussions and development efforts until you have considered the ideas of others. Look at what's floating out there:
- Join the IRC channel and contribute to the discussions when you have something productive or positive to add to the effort.
- If you're an extensions developer, make sure that all of your extensions are SeaMonkey-compatable.
- Contribute documentation where necessary. This can include documentation for new developers, ammendments to the SeaMonkey help dialog, and plugin deployment documentation.
Preliminary Roadmap Draft (based on a draft hosted by doron)
- Mozilla Suite 1.8
- solve branding issues [bug]
- version?
- name?
- X Suite 1.9
- Toolkit [bug]
- Reorganize directory structure? suite/browser, suite/mail/, etc?
- Use thunderbird for mail? Thunderbird is mix of xpfe/toolkit and will pose a problem.
- Change UI for toolkit features (customizable toolbars, Extension Manager[bug]).
- Theme? Move to firefox/tbird theme?
- XULRunner
- X Suite 2.0
- ?