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I’m recycling an old trademark that I’ve used, Caspia, to describe my projects to involve Washington State prisoners in open-source projects. After an afternoon of brainstorming, Caspia is a new acronym “Creating Accomplished Software Professionals In Absentia”. What does this have to do with Thunderbird? I sat in a room a few weeks ago with… Read More »
At the 2015 Community Leadership Summit, keynote speaker Henrik Ingo asked what he intended to be a trick question: Everybody knows that Redhat is the largest open source company by revenue, with 1.5 billion dollars per year in revenue. What is the second largest open source company? It took awhile before someone came up with… Read More »
The popular QuickText addon has not been updated for Thunderbird 38 and no longer works. As a user of that addon, I wanted to make it work again. This post provides instructions on how to do that. The addon has no license mentioned, and unfortunately that defaults to “all rights reserved”. That means that I… Read More »
On Wednesday, October 15 through Saturday, October 19, 2014, the Thunderbird core contributors (about 20 people in total) are gathering at the Mozilla offices in Toronto, Ontario for a key summit to plan a viable future for Thunderbird. The first two days are project work days, but on Friday, October 18 we will be meeting… Read More »
In the next few months I hope to do a series of blog posts that talk about Mozilla’s Thunderbird email client and its future. Here’s the TL;DR version (though still pretty long). These are my personal views, I have no authority to speak for Mozilla or for the Thunderbird project. Current Status Thunderbird usage is… Read More »
What will it take to keep Thunderbird stable and vibrant? Although there is a dedicated, hard-working team of volunteers trying hard to keep Thunderbird alive, there has been very little progress on improvements since Mozilla drastically reduced their funding. I’ve been an advocate for some time that Thunderbird needs income to fulfill its potential, and… Read More »
When I was first getting involved in Thunderbird, I recall reading a post from early leader Scott MacGregor that puzzled me. When the project was essentially a two-person project, he said that the next person they needed was a build engineer. I had always thought of that as a backwater for people who couldn’t do… Read More »
I recently received a review of my ExQuilla addon for Thunderbird with the glowing report “It works well, I’ll give you that. No more, no less”. Should be 5 stars, right? No, the addon got 2. This is the proxy battle over whether there should be paid addons in the Mozilla ecosystem, fought by trashing… Read More »
Recently we learned that the “Exchange 2007/2010/2013 Provider” addon is no longer being developed, and the final version did not fully support Thunderbird 24 and Exchange Server 2013 & Office365. While eventually we intend to fully integrate Calendar and Task support into ExQuilla, at the moment that support is incomplete and experimental, so many of… Read More »