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Thunderbird Core Team

The Thunderbird Core Team are people who are typically actively involved with Thunderbird on a weekly basis, and are close enough to the project to have a major influence on direction. The Thunderbird Council reviews this list and decides membership, and will review this list on a regular basis (most recent update in March 2019).

Core Contributors (in alphabetical order by first name or nick name)

1. Aceman (aceman) <acelists@atlas.sk>: Reviewer in mail/ and mailnews/, keeps us up-to-date with core changes, general fixer of problems.
2. Alessandro Castellani (Alecaddd) <alessandro@thunderbird.net>: Thunderbird UX lead, website designer, heavily involved in Thunderbird front-end work.
3. Alta88 <alta88@fixall.com>: Primary maintainer and peer of RSS Feeds, active in other areas including views.
4. Andrei Hajdukewycz (sancus) <sancus@thunderbird.net>: Thunderbird infrastrucure engieers, runs Thunderbird websites including addons.thunderbird.net.
5. Ben Campbell <benc@thunderbird.net>: Backend developer (the C++ stuff), maildir, LDAP, Telemetry, backend refactoring.
6. Christopher Leidigh <cleidigh@gmail.com>: Thunderbird add-ons coordinator.
7. Geoff Lankow (darktrojan) <geoff@thunderbird.net>: Jack of all trades, master of most including Calendar, add-ons support, WebExtention APIs.
8. Florian Quèze (florian) <florian@queze.net>: Module owner for chat.
9. Joe Sabash (:JoeS1) <jsabash@bellatlantic.net>: Thunderbird builds thread, testing nightly builds, release testing.
10. Kai Engert (kaie) <kaie@thunderbird.net>: Security, Privacy, S/MIME, NSS.
11. Khushil Mistry <khushil@thunderbird.net>: Front-end team, composition, editor, refactoring.
12. Magnus Melin (mkmelin) <mkmelin+mozilla@iki.fi>: Module Owner for mail/.
13. MakeMyDay <makemyday@gmx-topmail.de>: Key contributor and reviewer of the Lightning calendar addon.
14. Matt Harris (mattau (9282890794)): Active leader in Thunderbird support (SUMO).
15. Patrick Cloke (clokep) <clokep@patrick.cloke.us>: Manager of mercurial code transitions, key chat contributor and reviewer.
16. Paul Morris <paul@thunderbird.net>: Calendar and front-end work.
17. Philipp Kewisch (Fallen) <mozilla@kewis.ch>: Module owner for Lighting calendar addon.
18. Richard Marti (Paenglab) <richard.marti@gmail.com>: Primary maintainer of Thunderbird themes, also provides code patches to keep Thunderbird current.
19. Rob Lemley <rob@thunderbird.net>: Thunderbird release engineer
20. Ryan Sipes (ryanleesipes) <ryan@thunderbird.net>: Community Manager for Thunderbird.
21. Wayne Mery (wsmwk) <vseerror@fastmail.com>: Release manager for Thunderbird releases, key bug triager, Community Manager.

Regular contributors (in alphabetical order by first name)

1. Alfred Peters: Contributes to MIME, news, and triaging bugs.
2. Alice White: Master regression finder.
3. Gene Smith: Contributes to IMAP, knows all the different vendors inside-out.
4. Joshua Cranmer: Mailnews Module Owner, reviewer.
5. Markus Adrario (:taraman): Contributor to Calendar, reviewer.
6. Martin Giger (:freaktechnik): Contributor to Chat, reviewer.
7. Sebastian Hengst (Aryx): Contributes widely throughout Mozilla.
8. Stefan Sitter <ssitter@gmail.com>: Bug triager for the Lighting calendar add-on.
9. Thomas Düllmann: UX Contributor
10. Tooru Fujisawa (arai) <arai_a@mac.com>: Helps keeping Thunderbird's JavaScript code up-to-date with core changes.