# State of the Thunder 13: How the Roadmap Gets Made

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Published: 2025-10-10T18:33:19+00:00
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## Resource

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.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: https://developer.thunderbird.net/planning/roadmap Mobile roadmap: https://developer.thunderbird.net/planning/roadmap (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 ★ Support this podcast ★

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