I'm in the middle of a hectic business trip, so will write more while
i"m on the plane home tonight.
The first thing to figure out, as Doug said, is how much support the
project should provide Thunderbird. 5 minutes might be an obvious yes,
as noted earlier. At some level the answer is an obvious "no." My
clear recollection is that Brendan was of the view we had reached that
point a while back, and that Thunderbird should be more separate from
firefox-centric systems, not less. And that he was vehement about not
merging the two repos.
In an ideal world I agree that separating the two so that Thunderbird
team is not spending so much time dealing with Firefox systems is much
better for thunderbird. I also suspect that this will become more true
over time, not less. And I agree that Firefox and our new products will
benefit from having a clean separation, and that we need all the forward
momentum we can get if we are going to impact the state of the web in
the future.
I'm not sure we're able to do this, so need to do some due diligence to
figure out what the ideal world today is. I personally still live in
Thunderbird, so am interested both for the sake of the thunderbird the
open source project, and for my own personal daily experience.
As I said, more shortly, i'm running late now.
mitchell
On 10/23/15 6:15 PM, Doug Turner wrote:
Thunderbird is under supported and potentially harmful (as Brian Smith pointed
out on the mozilla-dev-security-policy back in Sept). Before merging c-c into
m-c, I think we should have agreement on what kind of support the mozilla
project and foundation is going to give to Thunderbird.
I think that this decision really should be made by Mitchell (cced).
Doug
On Oct 23, 2015, at 7:32 PM, Robert O'Callahan <rob...@ocallahan.org> wrote:
On Sat, Oct 24, 2015 at 12:43 PM, Jonas Sicking <jo...@sicking.cc> wrote:
But I think that the clear directive from project leadership has been
to prioritize Firefox development over other Gecko based projects.
I don't think that's unqualified. If killing off Thunderbird forever saves
a Firefox developer five minutes of work (e.g. by putting an end to this
thread), should we go ahead and do that because we're supposed to be
prioritizing Firefox development? I think clearly we shouldn't do that. We
should give Thunderbird some consideration.
I support merging c-c into m-c.
Rob
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