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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Just right now I think a who is
actually working on Thunderbird might be a good bit of
information. There are now about the same number of employees as
there are council members. Who do we contact about what? What
are they doing? <br>
<br>
Does Thunderbird have developers working on the lack of features.
Things like 2FA authentication ALA Outlook. Windows people app
integration. Categorisation of accounts (work home etc) address
book list in the main pane that provides a one click access to
mails from the contact or some oldie but goodies, real tabs, full
calendar integration, latest card_dav support for import and
export, provide a profile import and export and ActiveSync support
for mail and calendars.<br>
<br>
We heard a lot about Thunderbird NEXT some time ago, so are we
doing a rewrite? Either wholesale or component by component. What
is the road map for that process? <br>
<br>
Are we going to stick with the term web extension to describe
Thunderbird extensions or are we going to rebrand it something
relevant like mail extensions as it should have far more "local"
access that web extensions do if it is going to be a strong and
useful API. Retaining the term web extensions also lead new
developers that have web extensions experience to think they know
the environment. They will not.<br>
<br>
Thunderbird is moving forward, and I am seeing a lot of positive
moves. But where we are going appears to be a very closely
guarded path.<br>
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<br>
Matt<br>
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On 02-Mar-19 4:09 AM, Eyal Rozenberg wrote:<br>
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">Motivation:
So, someone just asked on the elections list for our council's current
composition, and what we are able to give is just this:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://wiki.mozilla.org/Modules/Thunderbird#Thunderbird_Council">https://wiki.mozilla.org/Modules/Thunderbird#Thunderbird_Council</a>
which doesn't cut it.
If I visit <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.thunderbird.net/">https://www.thunderbird.net/</a> , I should be able to readily
access information about the organizational infrastructure behind
Thunderbird, including information about the Thunderbird council, its
its role, its composition, its members background - as a minimum. But -
this information is not accessible nor does it seem to exist, i.e. I
can't find a page about that anywhere.
In fact, if I click the small "about" link, what I get is the Mozilla
Foundation:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/">https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/</a>
whose navigation bar / menus will essentially tell me Thunderbird
doesn't exist and there's only Firefox.
If I go back to our website, I don't see what would be telling me "Hey,
I'm not dead yet! I'm getting better!" (Monty Python reference there,
sorry.)
If click the twitter user link:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://twitter.com/intent/follow?screen_name=mozthunderbird">https://twitter.com/intent/follow?screen_name=mozthunderbird</a>
I see few tweets and their nature also hints at us being sort of near death.
Just saying,
Eyal
PS - It's not that the website is not reasonably-nicely-designed.
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“Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.”
<i>― Friedrich von Schiller, Die Jungfrau von Orleans </i></div>
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