On 12/3/2015 4:01 AM, Henri Sivonen wrote:
On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 2:47 PM, Andrew Sutherland
<[email protected]> wrote:
2) When you have addressed the technical debt, you potentially are left
with something that is not the same product that Thunderbird was to
begin with[1]. (:rkent's post at
https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/tb-planning/2015-September/004066.html
"Future Planning: Thunderbird as a Web App" could be interpreted as a
variation on this.)
Is that the plan of record that the Thunderbird devs agree on
executing given resources?
No, this was just some thoughts for discussion. The question of the
long-term technical platform for Thunderbird is still very much a topic
of discussion. In my dreams though, I sometimes imagine a world in which
Thunderbird, Postbox, N1, and Gaia Email all decide to work together to
make a common, killer communication client.
If you look at the contexts where Thunderbird has been recommended by
someone over the last couple of years, the context often seems to have
been privacy and end-to-end encryption in general and Enigmail+GPG in
particular.
The Enigmail community is certainly important, but represents a small
fraction of our users, less than 5% certainly. Yet Thunderbird is a
vital part of the overall GPG community, as I frequently hear that
Enigmail users at meetups typically are more than all of other GPG users
combined. Since privacy and security are important to Mozilla and the
Thunderbird, we are committed to continuing to support and encourage
Enigmail. We are actively investigating what it would take to have
Enigmail more integrated into Thunderbird, perhaps as a shipped addon.
But we have to keep that in context, as there are other important issues
as well that Thunderbird needs to address.
:rkent
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