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Welcome to Thunderforce, a Mozilla Thunderbird extension for Salesforce.com

Please feel free to look at and comment on the feature list. This extension has not been written yet, so if you contribute now, you can help steer the direction of Thunderforce. Partial functionality is presently planned for a pre-alpha version in mid-August.

Current stage: Notional architecture

Surveys Requirements survey 1 Which Thunderbird versions should Thunderforce support? (note that requiring 2.0 or later is almost a foregone conclusion with the current feature set) Which operating systems do you run Thunderbird on? So far, Linux and Windows are both tied with the highest number of votes. Fortunately, promoting the portability quality attribute will lead to compatibility for all platforms that Thunderbird runs on, assuming technical feasibility What should the license be? Which features are most popular? (note that the feature list has expanded somewhat since the survey was created) Take the survey to quickly and anonymously let us know! Feature Survey 1 coming soon! Survey administration (email me for access) Process This process is loosely based on Anthony Lattanze's Architecture-Centric Development Methodology (ACDM), which is popular process framework in the Master of Software Engineering (MSE) program at Carnegie Mellon University. For the development phase, a design-oriented process that refines the architectural modules into detailed design and then code will be used. Requirements elicitation Quality attributes Requirements prioritization and project scope High-level project planning Notional architecture Experiments Architectural review and refinement Module identification and assignment Integration test creation Detailed module designs Module unit tests Module code Integration tests passing Releases Tips Get emailed when pages of interest change: After creating a Thunderforce account, enter your email address and check "e-mail me when a page I'm watching is changed" into your preferences and click save, click on the email confirmation link in the message that the system sent to your inbox, and click on the "watch" tab on any page that you want to receive notifications from when the content changes. Disambiguation Thunderforce is not to be confused with the following: Thunder Force video game ThunderForce heavy metal band (requires JavaScript)

Artifacts Feature list Subversion repository Shared documents Releases (coming later) Useful Development Links Salesforce.com API 9.0 (entity-relationship diagrams (ERDs)) Mozilla platform documentation SQLite documentation People Project Lead: Steven Lawrance Architects Steven Lawrance Developers Steven Lawrance Quality Assurance Steven Lawrance Development Support Steven Lawrance Graphics Language Translators End-User Documentation End-User Testing Please let me know which role(s) you want to help out with