> DISCLAIMER: I'm not sure if that happened exactly this way and if I can > reproduce this bug, because I have no Windows machine to test this case. > I'll later set up a new environment (on my Linux machine) to try if I > can reproduce this bug.
If you can reproduce this problem, we would be very interested in fixing it. > If it is really the case, that this bug is existing, it would make me > really angry. If the bug exists, then by all means get angry — I would, too. But if the bug *doesn’t* exist, then won’t you have gotten angry over nothing, and don’t you deserve better than that? > With all due respect on the work of Enigmail and its developers, it's > just terrible. Maybe you ask, if I haven't complained earlier. Yeah it > is bad, and I'm too lazy to report bugs, but I also think that there is > no chance to change a lot on Enigmail, because I have the feeling, that > your reports will not change much, as long as the current developers of > Enigmail are leading the development. Enigmail is in a very interesting position, and one that’s shared by a lot of open-source software projects: a lot of people rely on it but astonishingly few are willing to contribute in a meaningful way. Two members of the Enigmail team are “contaminated” by US government associations. John Moore used to work at Fort Meade when he was with the United States Marine Corps, and my father’s a United States federal judge. If either of us ever touched the codebase, many people would consider Enigmail to be “tainted” by our work. So right there, of the already-small group, two of us can’t do any development work. Other people have their own limitations: some of us aren’t coders, for instance. Of the small Enigmail team, we have only two people who (a) are free of government connections, (b) can program in JavaScript and C++, and (c) have experience writing secure software. Of these two, both have full-time jobs and neither can contribute more than a few hours a week to Enigmail. The problem is not that the current developers are lazy or not up to the job. The problem is that there are so few developers, with such limited time, maintaining a project that has to work consistently across over a dozen different operating systems, even when repackaged by people who may not do a particularly good job of it. It’s a really hard problem, made worse by a lack of funding and a lack of manpower. GnuPG and OpenSSL both have the exact same problem: they need to support a lot of platforms and have to do so with a tremendous shortage of resources. > I hope I will find the time and be in a mood to write a new > Icedove/Thunderbird-AddOn, so I can put Enigmail to the trash bin and > you can complain about my AddOn. I promise you that if you can do a better job than we do, I’ll be one of the first people using your code. Until then, I’m going to stick with Enigmail. Thanks for your email, and please let us know if you’re able to recreate that bug. We really are interested in it.
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