On 04/27/2016 06:36 PM, Daniel Vrátil wrote:
I like the idea of having Thunderbird in KDE. It shows that we are an open community and welcoming towards "outside" projects and of course it would be also a good PR for both sides.
No, it wouldn't. The message wouldn't be "KDE community is open to the outside", it would be "KDE offers shelter to legacy project, hoping to salvage some attention from it". Make no mistake, Thunderbird is a dead project. It's built on a toolkit that's EOL, and hardly has enough of a development community to sustain the app, much less the stack beneath it. That it has users (like me) that still use it despite the mounting bitrot and deteriorating performance doesn't change that outlook. Many people who use Thunderbird want to switch away from Thunderbird. KDEPIM does face some similar challenges, but is actually much further along on componentizing its codebase to where e.g. moving from QWidget tovother toolkits is feasible, and QtCore is far from dead. As a developer, if I wanted to work on email stuff, I'd rather go there than invest my hours into Thunderbird. And that's part of the problem, too. If we were to incubate Thunderbird, it would need to supply really really strong answers for how it's going to pull its own weight to offset the resource and PR cost.
Cheers, Dan
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