Updating the Legal Documents

The following pages are automatically generated and should not be edited by hand:

The Thunderbird Privacy Policy, from mozilla/legal-docs.
The Thunderbird Pro Privacy Policy and Terms of Service, from thunderbird/thunderbird-accounts.

The documents that are downloaded are listed in builder.Legal.DOCUMENTS.

Here is the workflow for updating them.

Pull the latest and create a new branch

git checkout master
git pull
git checkout -b chore/update-legal

Confirm latest version number for Thundermail policies

Go to https://github.com/thunderbird/thunderbird-accounts/tree/main/assets/legal and determine if the latest version in settings.py is still correct.

Download the latest legal documents

Run the following:

python build-site.py  --downloadlegal

This automatically downloads the documents and generates the corresponding HTML files.

Commit and push

You do not have to include the date of the update, but you can find it at the top of each generated file (sites/www.thunderbird.net/includes/privacy/privacy-desktop.html, sites/tb.pro/includes/legal/privacy.html, sites/tb.pro/includes/legal/terms.html).

git commit -am 'updated legal docs to 2024-12-09'
git push -u origin chore/update-legal

Create a Pull Request

Make sure to tag another member of the Services Team for review.