<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Apr 30, 2016 at 4:32 PM, Jim <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:squibblyflabbetydoo@gmail.com" target="_blank">squibblyflabbetydoo@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div></div><span class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">
<p>- You're deterring potential contributors, because in addition to
the technical burden of making things opt-out, now contributors
will have to manage politics and make sure they don't end up
starting a flame war because they changed some people's habits.<br></p></div></blockquote></span><div>I don't agree. There are a great many things that contributors can work on that aren't particularly controversial, and even in cases where a change might be controversial, it's the job of the core Thunderbird team (submodule owners, UX peers, etc) to manage the politics and make (hopefully!) intelligent decisions about how to change Thunderbird. A new contributor should feel that the core<br></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div> </div></div>Whoops, the end got cut off here. The last sentence should read: "A new contributor should feel that the core team is there to help guide them in making positive changes to Thunderbird."<br></div></div>