On 10/23/2015 1:21 PM, Ehsan Akhgari wrote:
What are the long term plans for the Thunderbird and SeaMonkey community
to maintain their code, if it gets merged into m-c? On tb-planning I
see ongoing discussions about moving to other platforms such as
Electron, or the broader doubts about how Thunderbird wants to deal with
future upcoming changes such as the current add-ons?
Without long term plans for the code being maintained, we should not
move it into m-c.
Several core Thunderbird team members are meeting with Mark Surman in
Toronto next week to discuss establishing Thunderbird as a formal
Mozilla Foundation project (which looks very likely to happen). Part of
that will be implementing our funding plan, which is targeted at having
$500,000 per year available for Thunderbird maintenance and enhancement.
So yes we are working quite diligently on long-term plans for
Thunderbird code maintenance and enhancement. (I can't speak for
SeaMonkey). We recognize that the status quo has been less than optimal,
and we are working hard to improve that. Funny though, in spite of many
mishaps and new competition, our user base keeps growing (new record
this week of 9.6 million ADI!).
As for discussions about other options on tb-planning, you need to
consider those in the same context as other similar discussions about
Firefox. I've seen comments about Firefox moving to servo, and of course
there is the well-known deprecation of XUL, both of which will result in
large existing portions of m-c being made obsolete. Just as the Firefox
hg repos will adapt to their changes, so the Thunderbird hg repos will
adapt to changes.
:rkent
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