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<p>Currently Thunderbird communication channels are a bit scattered.
Some consolidation has been discussed on various forums, but no
decisions have been made so far. I'm writing this to get a wider
feedback on some of the changes up for discussion.</p>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/tb-planning">tb-planning
mailing list</a>
<ul>
<li>Would remain/become the main channel of general communication.</li>
<li>Would preferably be moving to topicbox like many of <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://thunderbird.topicbox.com/groups">our other lists
</a>(topicbox is a mailing list system too, but with nicer web
UI then mailman lists)</li>
</ul>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://lists.thunderbird.net/mailman/listinfo/maildev_lists.thunderbird.net">maildev
mailing list</a>
<ul>
<li>Most if not all of the maildev members are also on
tb-planning. </li>
<li>The list hasn't had too much traffic, since whether to choose
this or tb-planning is not easy.</li>
<li>Its original purpose of serving as a more moderated forum for
technical discussion has proven generally non-feasible: details
of technical decisions are better discussed on specific bugs
with the people who have, or are gaining knowledge about the
specifics involved. </li>
</ul>
<p><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://discourse.mozilla.org/c/thunderbird">Thunderbird
discourse</a></p>
<ul>
<li>Would be discontinued.</li>
<li>The <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://thunderbird.topicbox.com/groups/addons">addons
topicbox</a> is flourishing and a number of people have
expressed frustration with discourse. The value in keeping it
seems low.<br>
</li>
</ul>
<p><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="news://news.mozilla.org/mozilla.dev.apps.thunderbird">mozilla.dev.apps.thunderbird
newsgroup</a></p>
<ul>
<li>Could remain (IMO).</li>
<li>Could consider having it a pure newsgroup and kill the
mailinglist gateway, which when used makes usage a mess out of
conversations there... <br>
</li>
</ul>
<p>cc:ing maildev - let's continue the discussion on tb-planning
though!</p>
<p> -Magnus</p>
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