# SeaMonkey Community

Development of the SeaMonkey Internet Application suite software wouldn't be possible without the vibrant community of developers and users that form the SeaMonkey Project.
This page gives you some pointers of how to get in contact or be a part of our community.

The main channels of community activity within the SeaMonkey project are the newsgroup alt.comp.software.seamonkey, the SeaMonkey forums at mozillaZine and our irc channel on freenode.
This page also lists other sites covering technical and other topics related to SeaMonkey.

## Newsgroups / Mailing Lists

Please read the Netiquette Guidelines for posting rules and conventions.

Newsgroup: alt.comp.software.seamonkey

  The group is used for end-user and developer support. Ask any question about SeaMonkey, code, management, the project or development here.

  The newsgroup is already carried by many servers right now. If your provider does not carry it you can subscribe for free via aioe.org by clicking on the following link:
  subscribe to alt.comp.software.seamonkey

Mailing List: support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org

  The previous mozilla.support.seamonkey newsgroup has been replaced with this mailing list for end-user support. You can ask user questions about SeaMonkey here.

  You can subscribe by sending an email to support-seamonkey+subscribe@lists.mozilla.org .
  The list is hosted on Google groups and you can access it via Google groups support-seamonkey
  You can find an archive of the old Google group here: mozilla.support.seamonkey archive

Mailing List: dev-apps-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org

  The previous mozilla.dev.apps.seamonkey newsgroup has been replaced with this mailing list for more technical discussions. You can ask questions about code, project management and development here.

  You can subscribe by sending an email to dev-apps-seamonkey+subscribe@lists.mozilla.org .
  The list is hosted on Google groups and you can access it via Google groups dev-apps-seamonkey
  You can find an archive of the old Google group here: mozilla.dev.apps.seamonkey archive

## IRC - Internet Relay Chat

Lots of SeaMonkey developers and users also gather on IRC in the #seamonkey channel on freenode.net (This link should directly take you into the channel when you're using SeaMonkey with the ChatZilla IRC Client installed, which you should have with a full installation.)

There is also the SeaMonkey room on Matrix which bridges through to the #seamonkey channel on freenode.net. For more information on Matrix and other rooms on it, look on the Mozilla Wiki.

## Weblogs

News from different parts of the SeaMonkey project and Mozilla projects are also published on developers' and projects' weblogs ("blogs"). Those provide current information about development and releases as well as interesting insights of what's happening in the community and can usually also be read conveniently with the built-in SeaMonkey feed reader.

SeaMonkey Project Blog

  The official SeaMonkey weblog reports about final and for-testing releases, development news and other topics related to the SeaMonkey project.

Rainers SeaMonkey unofficial news page

  Rainer is doing a great blog and always has the latest news from the SeaMonkey world for you. A corresponding blog in German is available here.

## User Support and Discussion

A community product like SeaMonkey heavily relies on users building a support and discussion network to help each other with questions and problems regarding the use of the software. This is happening through the above mentioned communication channels, and in several other places, the most important of which are listed in this section.

MozillaZine Forums

  The web forums of the oldest Mozilla online magazine, covering thousands of SeaMonkey-related topics.

Knowledge Base

  Also hosted at MozillaZine, the knowledge base offers lots of help for users of our software.

## Add-Ons for SeaMonkey

As SeaMonkey can be extended with numerous add-ons, there's also a vivid community of people who provide such extensions and themes. There are several websites that provide lists and install possibilities for those add-ons.

Add-Ons for SeaMonkey

  The official SeaMonkey Add-Ons website is hosted by the Thunderbird project, please use this as your primary source for add-ons.

## Other Web Resources

Bill Gianopoulos home page hosting unofficial builds

  If you want to test a new build this page provides some bleeding edge releases with fixes still in review or not fully done. As with all unofficial releases be careful and have a full backup of your profile ready. Downgrading to prior versions was never and will not be supported.

## Reporting a Bug

Any change that is made to SeaMonkey requires a so-called "bug" to be filed in Mozilla's bug tracking system Bugzilla. A "bug" is basically a change request and uniquely identified by a numerical ID. A bug can be about a defect in the software, a feature request or an idea of how to improve existing functionality.

Anyone can file a bug. All you need is a Bugzilla account, which is free. But since the goal is to get bugs fixed, it is vital that bug reports are as precise as possible. Please read the Bug Writing Guidelines before you file your first bug.