[Bug 86423] Ability To Reply To HTML Email With Same HTML Format As It Was Received

[Tin Blaskovic]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=86423





--- Comment #169 from Tin Blaskovic <tin blaskovic gmail com>  2010-08-31 08:12:39 ---
Being just a silent voter until now, I would like to just make this one comment
because I feel it is important but overlooked. Having sw development experience
myself, there is one aspect that shouldn't be forgotten, and that is the
quality of the proposed solution. Care needs to be taken for this work to be
made maintainable, extensible and portable. Unfortunately, one prevailing theme
I noticed from all the development-oriented comments is that this feature is
very hard to add due to KMail 1.x architecture. I'm afraid that if this work
ends up providing HTML quote/compose support to KMail 1.x, it will not be
easily applicable to 2.x. I suggest that an additional requirement be made to
the bounty, something in the lines of: "The implemented feature should be based
on an externally maintained editor component, and provide documented interfaces
for inclusion into other software. The documentation should also include a
context diagram illustrating outside interfaces and internal class/component
relations. Finally, at least one example (a simple step-by-step guide without
actual implementation) on how to add new capabilities to the solution should be
included".
I feel this will guarantee that the work done now will be usable for years to
come and easily extensible, while I'm also aware that it might considerably
raise the valuation and give more headaches to Tim, or whomever else that
decides to take up the bounty. Even if this final valuation ends up being twice
or 3x the amount of the initial one, believe me it would not be unrealistic and
would be worth it. That said, if you add the requirement to the bounty along
the lines I suggested above, I'm willing to support this effort with US$50
initially, and another US$50 if the bounty pot ends up being short of the
requested amount, and I'm willing to reserve the initial amount upfront through
chipin (via PayPal).

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