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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2/18/2018 4:17 PM, Ben Bucksch
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Am 14.02.2018 um 12:39 schrieb Henri
Sivonen:<br>
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<div>I think the ideas of a greenfield rewrite of everything
at once under the Thunderbird brand are a recipe for the
death of the Thunderbird that has the users.</div>
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A superficial look at things can be decieving.<br>
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What I propose is the same that Firefox has done with Servo.<br>
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<p>Are you proposing Servo, or are you proposing Netscape 6 and
calling it Servo?</p>
<p>Servo has not attempted to build a functional web browser (unlike
Firefox), and was mainly an experimental platform. It took 5 years
of development to get any piece actually shipping in Firefox.
During that time, Firefox and Gecko development was funded as
normal, and Gecko still gained new features.</p>
<p>Netscape 6 was an attempt to rewrite the entire Netscape codebase
wholesale. Netscape 4 was originally in a maintenance mode that
would produce Netscape 5, but was abandoned without releasing
Netscape 5. It took 4 years of development before a first release
was made, and even then it was still viewed as premature. The
effort ultimately killed Netscape, although the codebase would
eventually become mozilla-central and comm-central.</p>
<p>Do you see the differences in the two models? One was developed
in lieu of continuing its predecessor and killed them both off,
and the other was developed as an interesting side project that
might bear fruit for its parent project.<br>
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Joshua Cranmer
Thunderbird and DXR developer
Source code archæologist</pre>
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