I am considering starting a bounty-pledge movement to incentivize a specific set of developments in Thunderbird. They are features that do not seem to attract the interest of the active Thunderbird community so are unlikely to be developed without some financial support.
I seek advice about whether or not the idea has merit or the sought features are either too complex or unlikely of development for some other reasons. Following is the list of features I believe are essential to wider adoption of Thunderbird in business environments. You will see that they largely are about tighter integration of the email-contacts-calendar and would move Thunderbird into the application gap between email client and CRM. The idea of a bounty recruitment is simply to start receiving pledges of cash toward the development of this feature set. Does that make sense itself? Would Mozilla be willing to act as the "bank" holding the cash until enough is gathered to essentially hire a developer? What would be the necessary minimum funding needed? Any advice or comments would be very welcome. - add Reminder by email to event/task reminder options - Create event from addressbook listing - provide for adding Contacts, without sending invite - Add to List right click/button on addressbook listing - Add contact or Invitee from address book in Event window - Attach events to Addressbook entry of invitees/contacts - Attach email to Contact, in message pane window or compose/read window - Option to auto-attach to address book contacts all messages to and from the contact - "Attach" means the emails appear in the Address Bood entry so there might be a new tab "Conversations" - Allow Send-to Organization so all address book Contacts with the organization are treated like a list - Allow Sent-to Category, treating category like List - Allow user-chosen number of categories for any one contact (now limited to eight) OR add "Tags" with Send-to capability - Add Contact History tab to address book entry - double-click email address operns compose window and adds date-time to Contact History -- email gets attached - double-click phone number Opens Call Record in Contact history and pre-fills call time with date-time. Text box for user to enter any details of call gets attached like an email message - entering Birthday or anniversary in Contact automatically creates event in Calendar Glenn Caleval _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
