Re: Thunderbird + Lightning for sorting your social life

Rob Pearson <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.org.user-groups.linux.dunedin.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Yes it's ironic that it got buggier, expected during staffing 
transitions I guess.  They still have an awful lot of paid staff, so 
it'll just get better without feature bloat :-) The bug I mentioned is 
listed as fixed in latest patch.  The best cross platform email/calendar 
client by far. 
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird/Proposal:_New_Release_and_Governance_Model#Resources_provided_by_Mozilla 


On 30/01/13 17:50, Reece Arnott wrote:
>
> On 30/01/13 09:24, Rob Pearson wrote:
>> Unfortunately both Thunderbird and Lightning have been flakier than 
>> normal for the last couple of releases,  perhaps the release cycle is 
>> (was) too quick for the engineers. 
>
> Should have mentioned that Thunderbird apparently isn't being 
> 'actively developed' any-more (just security and bug fixes, not adding 
> features) which may have something to do with the above.
>
> http://www.zdnet.com/mozilla-scraps-thunderbird-development-email-client-not-a-priority-anymore-7000000469/ 
>
>


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