Re: [Enigmail] Future OpenPGP Support in Thunderbird

On 08/10/2019 08:08, Patrick Brunschwig wrote:
> The Thunderbird developers have announced that they will implement
> OpenPGP support in Thunderbird 78 [1]. Support for Thunderbird in
> Enigmail will therefore be discontinued.

Wow.

Patrick, first of all I'd like to thank you for all the effort you have
put into Enigmail (and will continue to put into it). Without your
brilliant work it is clear that Thunderbird would not have been as
successful as it has been.

I am certain that I would not have been a longtime user of Thunderbird
if it had not been for the old addon ecosystem, especially Enigmail. In
particular for me, your response to bugs has been quick and effective.

Whilst OpenPGP support should ideally of course have been built into
Thunderbird from the beginning (alongside S/MIME support) I have to say
that, as things now stand, I have more confidence in the development and
project management of Enigmail than of Thunderbird itself.

I fully understand that you, Patrick, do not have the time to re-develop
Enigmail from scratch to support the new addon ecosystem. And I should
be pleased that OpenPGP encryption will be built into TB core in the
near future. And yet I find myself having misgivings about how well the
future of Thunderbird will be managed or how sustainable future
development will be, especially when the project is ultimately not the
master of its own platform's fate.

Time will tell.

Thank you once again for all the effort you've put in. You've made a
massive contribution to every user of Enigmail and the past success of
Thunderbird.

-- 
Mark Rousell

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