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<p>Hey Tanstaafl,</p>
<p>The percentage of time and resources spent on chat probably
matches up with the userbase that we have for chat. We have many
large enterprises and a few governments using XMPP right now with
Thunderbird. <br>
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<p>If they represent 1% of our userbase, that probably tracks with
the time spent on this feature - if even, I'd say the time spent
is actually a fraction of a fraction of a percent of donations.
And those enterprises and governments, as far as I can tell, are a
good source of donations.</p>
<p>Also, the entire Thunderbird team uses chat in order to stay in
touch and collaborate. Improving chat means helping the core team
communicate more effectively, and if we can secure our chat with
each other that's even better.</p>
<p>This comes across as "I don't use that feature, therefore it is a
waste." - which I think is a flawed way to think about what to
work on. I've had a couple of enterprises reach out to share
they've made reasonably sizable, often recurring donations, and
share what they use. Are their donations not worth anything?<br>
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<div class="moz-signature">Ryan Sipes
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<small>Community and Business Development Manager</small>
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<a href="https://thunderbird.net">Thunderbird</a><br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/11/19 9:17 PM, Tanstaafl wrote:<br>
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">On 10/10/2019, 6:32:13 PM, Magnus Melin <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:mkmelin+mozilla@iki.fi"><mkmelin+mozilla@iki.fi></a> wrote:
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">On 10-10-2019 13:04, Will wrote:
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">we'd like to know why TB is
spending presumably a lot of resources on chat client encryption?
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Thunderbird is committed to ensuring free and private communications.
Not only for chat but email too, which the OpenPGP announcement would
have you know. I think in the larger view of things, ensuring
distributed end-to-end encryption systems for communication are easily
obtainable is very important for freedom of speech and other fundamental
rights.
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That sounds all well and good, but TB is, first and foremost, an EMail
client, not a Chat client, and that should take a -very high- priority.
Once the email code is rewritten and all major/known bugs squashed, then
and only then should PAID resources (volunteers are of course always
welcome to work on whatever they want) be focused on chat and other
extraneous features.
If PAID resources are being used for Chat and other non-email type work,
then I question the validity of such decisions.
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