<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">On Oct 26, 2013, at 7:14 , Tanstaafl <<a href="mailto:tanstaafl@libertytrek.org">tanstaafl@libertytrek.org</a>> wrote:<div><blockquote type="cite">On 2013-10-25 5:03 PM, Andrew Sutherland <<a href="mailto:asutherland@asutherland.org">asutherland@asutherland.org</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">I work on the Gaia e-mail client for Firefox OS and I am<br>personally extremely interested in using the same code-base to create a<br>desktop e-mail client. I hope to get some type of initial alpha out<br>before the new year.</blockquote>I think one of Thunderbirds weakest points is the legacy codebase that just contains too much baggage. It seems like every one of the most significant bugs or feature-lack is due to this baggage (just too much work to fix properly for the resources that are available).<br><br>I'm curious if you have written anything up on what you are planning? UI mockups, or even just musings or ramblings would be perfectly fine.<br><br>In fact, I'd like to see some kind of forum space where details can be discussed (planned features, etc)…<br></blockquote><div><br></div>I, for one, would love to see this discussion happen here… Perhaps we can also add some of Mike Conley’s Ensemble work, too…<br><br><blockquote type="cite">Anyway, I'm really excited to see what you come up with. Leveraging the Gaia codebase as much as possible - since apparently it will be well supported by Mozilla in the foreseeable future - would be a really good thing.<br><br>Thanks Andrew!<br></blockquote></div><div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Indeed, thanks Andrew, for both this initiative, and the sweet hat that I’m currently wearing! :)</div><div><br></div><div>Later,</div><div>Blake.</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px;"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; widows: 2; border-spacing: 0px;"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; text-align: -webkit-auto; border-spacing: 0px;"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div>-- </div><div>Blake Winton UX Engineer</div><div><a href="mailto:bwinton@mozilla.com">bwinton@mozilla.com</a></div></div></span></div></span></div></span></div><br><div></div></div></body></html>