[clue] opensource email clients?

[Lorin Ricker]

Gets me thinking -- you know, I'm actually happy when a particular 
favorite application reaches a level of development where the 
maintainers just can't think of a single thing to add or change... and 
there's really nothing pressing that Tbird lacks that couldn't likely be 
added with an add-on or extension.

So, short of security- or reliability-minded bug fixes, it's okay with 
me if they essentially stop development, as long as the program's 
available, and that "bit rot" preventive maintenance support is provided.

The chase for never-ending features is not necessarily a good thing, and 
I've actually abandoned apps in the past that just went too far beyond 
their original charter -- the most egregious example, perhaps canonical, 
is of course MS Windows itself.  Gnome 3 perhaps?  Certainly Firefox (I 
traded it in for Chromium).

As designer/coders, we need to learn to not fix it if it ain't broke -- 
takes discipline, but creeping featurism is a bane, not a boon.

respectfully,
   -- Lorin

On 08/24/2012 05:14 PM, Warren W. Weiss wrote:
> Mike Bean <beandaemon at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>   > So I'm curious.  I heard that Thunderbird is discontinuing
>   > development...
>
> I think they're simply going to not add new features, but continue bug
> and security fixes.
>
> The "community" can add new features with add-ons and extensions, which
> I can agree with.