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<div id="smartTemplate4-template">Dear Kent,
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as an addon author I would love if they would be a little more
proactive in answering emails from us. I had major 2 updates for
my Addons smartTemplate4 and quickFilters some weeks ago and I
know they need a manual intervention to update their push
mechanism (I am also planning an update for QuickFolders soon). I
usually try to notify them at <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:addons@postbox-inc.com">"addons@postbox-inc.com"</a> and copy
Seth Spitzer from development (not even sure if he still work in
development?).<br>
<br>
Also some user statistics would be very nice. <br>
<br>
It is a considerable effort to keep the codebase in sync between
Tb, SeaMonkey and Postbox and I would love to know whether it is
worth the effort. As it stands I have no idea what percentage of
my users have Postbox.<br>
<br>
Secondly I would like to know whether they intend to move forward
to EcmaScript 6 / or intend to switch to a higher Gecko platform
(AFAIK they are still stuck at 9.0). Just to know would be good -
in the meantime I am writing some Shim code to avoid too many
warnings from the more modern Thunderbird JS. It would just be
nice to know.<br>
<br>
Thirdly I would be interested in implementing a search into their
filter dialog (like we did in Thunderbird), but it is a little
much for one man alone especially seeing that they have a
different tree implementation. Are they planning to get closer to
the c-c codebase or are they just going to leave it as is?<br>
<br>
thanks,<br>
Axel<br>
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Software Developer
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Thunderbird Add-ons Developer
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background-color:rgba(220,220,240,0.4); border-radius:3px;"> <b>Subject:</b>
My upcoming meeting with Postbox<br>
<b>To:</b> Tb-planning <br>
<b>From: </b>R Kent James<br>
<b>Sent: </b>Tuesday, 15/09/2015 22:50:06 22:50 GMT ST +0100
[Week 37]<br>
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<blockquote class=" cite" id="mid_55F8928E_80800_caspia_com"
cite="mid:55F8928E.80800@caspia.com" type="cite">On Monday of next
week, I'm going to be having a meeting with Sherman Dickson of
Postbox to see if there is any way that we could work better
together. There is no set agenda or underlying plan here, it's
just that it is always a pity when there is a fork, and duplicated
effort. We should at least talk.
<br>
<br>
Two years ago I thought Postbox was dead, but they came out with a
new version recently, hiring a small army of contractors to make
it happen. So they seem to be a viable, parallel effort. If we
could figure out ways to work together, making our code base more
similar so that we could share more, we could both win.
<br>
<br>
Any words of wisdom for issues worth discussing with Postbox would
be appreciated, sent either publicly or privately.
<br>
<br>
(From Thursday of this week through Sunday I will be mostly
offline, with occasional checkins from an internet cafe, so don't
expect robust responses from me).
<br>
<br>
:rkent
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