Hi, On 26 April 2016 at 22:38, Eike Hein <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 04/27/2016 01:58 AM, Teo Mrnjavac wrote: >> >> This, so much. I see no reason not to expand our presence in different >> segments of the e-mail clients market, if Thunderbird wishes to join us. >> The >> more, the merrier. > > > I'm not sure they're a good fit for us, unless they bring significant > manpower/funding with them or continue to enjoy Mozilla backing in some > form. Thunderbird is used to being developed within an extensive eco- > system of Mozilla infrastructure (including their customized or home- > grown bug tracking, CI, test, etc. sites/systems); porting it either > to our infra or setting up infra for them would probably be a > significant task we don't have the resources for. > > There's also the problem that Thunderbird is a massive codebase with > few people working on it, and built on technology that's predictably > legacy (Gecko will ultimately die in favor of Servo; also nobody at > Mozilla seems to like XPCOM or god forbid XUL for years now). These > pose significant hurdles to the Thunderbird project I'm not convinced > it can scale, even with our help. > > Incubator, yes. Project cemetary, no. I think cost/benefit and outlook > say 'no' here.
I'm going to second Eike here. My gut feeling says Thunderbird is going to go the way of Apache OpenOffice, and we'd just be a graveyard for it, not an incubator. -- Boudhayan Gupta _______________________________________________ kde-community mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-community
