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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 7/12/12 8:13 AM, Laurent Bauvens
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Le 10/07/2012 21:34, Mark Banner a
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/07/2012 12:52, BAUVENS
Laurent wrote:<br>
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It's clearly not a question of money nor a question of lack of
hired resources</blockquote>
Correct.<br>
<blockquote cite="mid:4FFC5DE2.5060702@cnamts.fr" type="cite">so
perhaps it just could be a political question inside Mozilla
where Thunderbird haters struggle against Thunderbird lovers.
I won't be surprised of that.<br>
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As a Mozilla "insider" I can assure you that it isn't this
either.<br>
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Mitchell has already answered the issue in her blog post -
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<i>continued innovation in Thunderbird is not a priority for
Mozilla’s product efforts</i>. There's then more background
for this reason at the bottom of her post.<br>
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Also, remember that Mozilla does recognise the importance of
Thunderbird to its users and the communities, which is why it is
still providing significant support to maintaining and being
able to release new Thunderbird versions in the future.<br>
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I well understand that Mozilla recognizes Thunderbird as an
important piece of software for its users but in the same time
Mozilla recognizes that Thunderbird is not an important piece of
software in its strategic policy and then doesn't deserve anyway
the resources spent on it. This is a point of view. <br>
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"Stability and community driven innovation" In my opinion, it's a
nice sentence for a tombstone. A software at the top of its form
needs strong ambitions to permit it to evolve. I think strong
ambitions are still possible with email, even with a desktop
client. But strong ambitions need strong engineering to be
transform in disruptive functionalities. All the contrary of
"Stability and community driven innovations".<br>
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That's why I think Mozilla will have to give Thunderbird to
another free organization really motivated to develop email
clients and servers and be involved in rfc evolution process.</blockquote>
Laurent as a good point here. Email will evolve, and we should be
trying to follow and get involved with the various IETF working
groups.<br>
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Ludo<br>
ps laurent the main conversation is on tb-planning , so replying
there.<br>
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