The SeaMonkey project is a community effort to develop the SeaMonkey all-in-one internet application suite. Such a software suite was previously made popular by Netscape and Mozilla, and the SeaMonkey project continues to develop and deliver high-quality updates as well as new features and improvements to this concept. Containing an Internet browser, email & newsgroup client, HTML editor, IRC chat and web development tools, SeaMonkey is sure to appeal to advanced users, web developers and corporate users.
SeaMonkey is built on the open source Mozilla Gecko engine, the same code which underlies the highly successful Thunderbird and is the base for the Firefox browser. SeaMonkey benefits from the cross-fertilization with these other projects, by gaining (and contributing) new features and the ongoing security updates which are a modern necessity. The SeaMonkey Association provides legal backing for the SeaMonkey Project.
The SeaMonkey Council is the project leading team. Its responsibilities include release management (deciding when to cut releases and what code is included in a release; the release engineer of the Council is responsible for actually doing the release) and being the final instance for decisions about features when developers disagree. The SeaMonkey Council also decides on legal issues concerning the SeaMonkey project, in conjunction with the Mozilla Foundation, which provides legal backing for the project.
Members (in alphabetical order by last name):
No longer active in the project, we owe these Council members a great deal for making the current SeaMonkey the only full Internet suite left on earth.
Former Members (in alphabetical order):
Mnenhy
. His key focus is upon SeaMonkey's
MailNews development.The SeaMonkey Project can be divided into several areas, which are listed on our project areas list. Each of those areas should have an owner and possibly several peers (people who know the code well enough to give reviews there), who together care about that area. The sum of those areas build a strong group of developers, who can move the SeaMonkey project forward.
Additionally, there's a vibrant community surrounding those developers, see the
SeaMonkey community page for how to get in touch
with those people.
If you want to take an active role in testing or even developing SeaMonkey,
getting involved with the project is fairly
easy for anybody who can donate their time to our efforts.
For support and help or even development questions, please turn to our community which usually can help you faster and often better than our very small project steering team, the SeaMonkey Council. If you are seeking general support, send your question to the support mailing list and include which version of SeaMonkey your are using and on which platform (Windows/Linux/Mac). In order to receive the replies you also need to subscribe to the list.
If you have questions about legal issues, project management issues or topic
that need to stay undisclosed to the wider public, please mail the SeaMonkey
Council at seamonkey-council@mozilla.org.
Please do not use the Council address for support requests!
If you find an issue with this website, please check whether it has already been reported and file a new bug if necessary.