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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 5/9/16 2:12 AM, Hammy Havoc wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hey all,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Long-term Thunderbird user checking in,
I’ve also recently come back to using Firefox. Absolutely love
both applications, the integration of extensions on Android is
also ingenious. What’s not to love between desktop and mobile?<o:p></o:p></p>
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I'm not sure what this integration is. As far as I know, there's no
integration between Thunderbird and Android.<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p><o:p></o:p>Managing Thunderbird
via a mailing list is really quite dated in this day and age
too, it’s not the best way to manage a project of this scale,
and it’s also not public. I’ve <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://twitter.com/mozthunderbird/status/729542410376634370">been
advised by @mozthunderbird on Twitter</a> to raise this with
the mailing list.</p>
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I'm not really sure what you're referring to here. The Thunderbird
community has a variety of ways to communicate: a mailing list, bug
tracker and IRC. This is pretty standard in the open-source world.
The planning of Thunderbird is completely open and public, so I
think there's some misunderstanding here.<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p>I propose that Thunderbird
should be open-sourced to accelerate development, and that it
should be on GitHub, as it’s very much the de-facto standard
for these projects. Large corporations such as Microsoft and
Facebook open-source software on there, and it’s worked well
for Mozilla too on GitHub so far.<o:p></o:p></p>
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To repeat. Thunderbird *IS* open-sourced (and has always been). I
would not say GitHub is a "de-facto" standard, but it is pretty
commonly used. It has a lot of drawbacks, however, especially for
large complex projects, like Thunderbird. It might be reasonable to
reconsider this as we move further off Mozilla's infrastructure,
this would also cause a shift in VCS, however, which is likely to be
contentious.<br>
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--Patrick<br>
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