> On 26 Apr 2016, at 19:54, Boudhayan Gupta <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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.
+1. -1 for adopting Thunderbird. Unless a large group of contributors show up spontaneously that is really enthusiastic about working on it. Cheers, Mirko. -- Mirko Boehm | [email protected] | KDE e.V. FSFE Fellow, FSFE Team Germany Qt Certified Specialist Request a meeting: https://doodle.com/mirkoboehm _______________________________________________ kde-community mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-community
