A new direction for Thunderbird
Recently, I’ve been following some of the discussion going on around the future direction of the Thunderbird project. Thunderbird is the email client companion to Firefox. So far, I’m liking the sound of things.
Initial call for action:
http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/mitchell/archives/2007/07/email_futures.html
Initial summary report:
https://blog.startcom.org/?p=32
Hopefully, there will be some actual planning and direction for the project now, rather than just whatever anyone feels like working on this week. I really hope they’ll deal with some of the barriers to entry for new developers such as their ridiculously complicated build system. Up until now, Thunderbird has had a lot of potential, and is even a quite usable client, but it has not been pushing boundaries or expanding market share much at all.