https://lwn.net/Articles/982610/
'Ryan Sipes told the audience during his keynote at GUADEC 2024 in Denver,
Colorado that the Thunderbird mail client "probably shouldn't still be alive".
Thunderbird, however, is not only
alive—it is arguably in better shape than
ever before. According to Sipes, the project's turnaround is a result of
governance, storytelling, and learning to be comfortable asking users for
money. He would also like it quite a bit if Linux distributions stopped turning
off telemetry.
Sipes is managing director of product for MZLA Technologies Corporation, the
subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation that allows Thunderbird to take donations
and so forth. When Sipes joined the Thunderbird project on a part-time contract
as community manager in December 2017, one of the most common questions he was
asked was "isn't Thunderbird dead?" That wasn't, he said, an unreasonable
question.'
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
