Knowing how many users are using each “hidden” preference would
probably be useful, too. I imagine keeping all of those working isn’t
free.
Cheers,
-sam
On 11 Nov 2022, at 10:52, Glenn Parker wrote:
On 6 Nov 2022, at 7:42, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:
That's a very good question, but I don't really have a good answer.
I'm to blame for this (as with all things related to MailMate). The
starting point was major changes to the message view of MailMate
which then cascaded into other parts of MailMate eventually making it
very hard to make updates which would not break existing features for
some users.
Any sustainable software development cycle has to include phasing out
old non-essential features. There is also a natural reluctance to
negatively impact existing users. This is especially true in a close
user community like MailMate’s, where we all can interact directly
with the solo developer.
Why not spend some quality time re-assessing these old features? A
feature survey would be informative for us (exposing problematic
features we might be relying on). And it might go the other way,
revealing that old features are not worth the extra sweat to maintain.
Is this something Benny could offload to volunteers? Could people comb
the bug tracker for things like this and put out a summary?
Glenn P. Parker
glenn.par...@comcast.net
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