[Kde-pim] State of Thunderbird

[Kevin Krammer]

Hi folks,

just finished watching the FOSDEM video[1] of the "State of Thunderbird" talk.
Short with an extended Q&A section.

Some interesting points:

- they have a similar problem we have, i.e. only very few people run beta 
versions (IIRC the speaker cited 0.5% vs 5% for Firefox)

- they have a hard time within Mozilla because most users are in Europe and 
the managment is in the USA

- the next versions are mostly about internal changes
 * they are rewriting their MIME parser in JavaScript
 * they are rewriting their addressbook, ultimately wanting plugin capability
    for different data sources

- they seem to struggle with quite a pile of old code (hence the rewriting)

Cheers,
Kevin

[1] http://video.fosdem.org/2014/UD2218A/Saturday/State_of_Thunderbird.webm
-- 
Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring
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