The beginning of Thunderbird 3 planning [LWN.net]

The beginning of Thunderbird 3 planning

Posted Jan 30, 2008 19:31 UTC (Wed) by liljencrantz (subscriber, #28458)
Parent article: The beginning of Thunderbird 3 planning

It's very interesting to note that most of the comments in this thread are feature suggestions
and extremely few of them agree with each other. One says better imap, another says stability,
or a grandma mode or better tagging or... It seems to me that people have very, very different
ideas of what their email program should do, and while some of them can be combined, others
pretty clearly are incompatible. I think that Ascher would do wisely to use some form of
survey to pick out one small set of related features that are relevant to many potential users
and ignoere all other requests until those core things are fixed. It is quite poissible that
he has already done this, I guess. Anyway, I think Thundebird at this point pretty much needs
to find a cohesive vision and go for it. 

Personally, I'd very much like it if that vision was calendaring+IMAP+better searching, but
I'm probably as unrepresentative as the rest of the people here.

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The beginning of Thunderbird 3 planning

Posted Jan 31, 2008 3:18 UTC (Thu) by tristangrimaux (guest, #26831) [Link]

This is no incompatible at all: "One says better imap, another says 
stability"

For those who are IMAP users, there is no stability problem, for those 
who are POP3 users, stability is killing their mailboxes.

As usual, there are people saying little things that are unimportant and 
there is a big clamor on those two factors. Choosing wisely is key for a 
god product manager, and this is what he needs to show.

You (as I) are in the side of IMAPerS so I agree, and I should add 
Contact info on IMAP folders.

The beginning of Thunderbird 3 planning

Posted Feb 8, 2008 6:27 UTC (Fri) by goaty (guest, #17783) [Link]

The first commandment of mail software is "thou shalt not lose mail". I'm an IMAPper too, but
if POP3 users are losing mail, that has to take priority over everything else.

I'm not sure I accept the idea that Thunderbird needs to increase its userbase, but if we take
that as true, then calendering is definitely the way to do it. If you duplicate the
calendering functionality from Evolution, a million corporate desktops would switch overnight.
Evolution is so flaky I'm starting to think it was developed by creationists out of spite.