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background-color:rgba(220,220,240,0.4); border-radius:3px;"> <b>Subject:</b>Re:
Addon transition support<br>
<b>From:</b>Alta88 <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:alta88@fixall.com"><alta88@fixall.com></a><br>
<b>To:</b><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:Tb-Planning@mozilla.org">Tb-Planning@mozilla.org</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:tb-planning@mozilla.org"><tb-planning@mozilla.org></a> <br>
<b>Sent: </b>Friday, 25/9/2020 00:27<br>
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I completely agree with you, Dirk. Thank you for the excellent
write-up. You explained the reasoning behind the change well and
correctly.
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I particularly like your idea of a clear promise that
Experiments will stay enabled. I would like that promise as
well.
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+100. As written a year ago[1], candidates standing for Council
need to make their position clear on permanently retaining
experiments functionality.
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[1] <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/tb-planning/2019-October/007110.html"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/tb-planning/2019-October/007110.html</a></blockquote>
<p>I think I would vote for that as well - or at least having
experiments enabled / supported for the following ESR (78 + 88) -
a year may be too short a period for adapting all functionality to
web APIs.</p>
<p>As a maintainer of 8 Add-ons, some of them highly complex and
some medium (i don't think I have any "trivial" ones) it will be
hard for me to adapt them all.</p>
<p>I am now getting requests for ZombieKeys and obviously
FiltaQuilla to be 78 compatible, but I do not have the time to
convert them - I would love if I could find somebody to adopt them
with a view to converting them to proper mail extensions. In fact
ZombieKeys is one of the main reasons that I use Waterfox and
cannot use Firefox (the other one being QuickPasswords) - it's
just nicer to be able to write posts in my native language
(German) when you have easy access to all the characters used. Hey
and I will also need that in my emails. typing a word like "für"
or "räumen" as "fuer" and "raeumen" ist just not very nice to type
and read. Unfortunately Microsoft also decided to remove deadkey
support from Skype (they used to have the same shortcuts, I think
you still get them natively in some Linux distros).</p>
<p>So I would love if some Add-ons could be adopted by the
Thunderbird core team, just as Lightning was. Having better
international support is almost like an accessibility issue.
Failing that, if Mozilla could organize manpower (Having John was
an absolutely crucial and helpful way, I hope he stays in that
position as a helper and coordinator for conversion) or funding -
I currently have to pay for the conversion out of my own pocket.
Which is fine with Add-ons that can be monetized, but it just
means "free as in beer" Add-ons are still deemed to silently go
into the night...</p>
<p>So anyway, let's put the potential "switch off" date for
experiments on the longer finger (2 years would be better than
one). This should also weed out the more "casual" Add-ons - I am
certainly in it for the long haul. My good friend & Mozillian
Avinash from Nepal also offered that he may get an intern to help,
but it hasn't materialized yet.<br>
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<p>regards,<br>
Axel<br>
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