[Kde-pim] State of Thunderbird

[Mark Gaiser]

On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 9:57 PM, Kevin Krammer <krammer at kde.org> wrote:
> 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

Nice share!

But the video - the entire presentation - actually has a bit of a sad
tone. That guy seems to be very willing to spend more time on
developing Thunderbird but is simply not getting the time from Mozilla
HQ. They really need a future vision for Thunderbird.

I hope Thunderbird itself will still exists in.. 5 years.

Cheers,
Mark
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