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Welcome to Thunderforce, an open-source 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: Experiments

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 and elsewhere. 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 Use cases 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 Mailing Lists Communicate with the Thunderforce users and developers through the following mailing lists: Thunderforce announcements (approximately two status emails per week) Thunderforce users Thunderforce developers Surveys Results of Requirements Survey Survey administration (email me for access) 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.

Artifacts Feature list Context diagram Subversion repository Shared documents Releases (coming later) Useful Development Links Documentation Apex API 9.0 (entity-relationship diagrams (ERDs)) Mozilla platform documentation SQLite documentation Implement XPCOM in JavaScript XULPlanet.com Component object Tools Eclispe Mozilla testing Eclipse Plug-Ins Subclipse UMLet UML editor Oribe XML JSEclipse Thunderbird Extensions DOM Inspector Venkman about:about Extension Developer Extension Salesforce.com AJAX Debug Shell 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