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If we want to see a different kind of mail initiative, it will require someone with a passion for that initiative. | If we want to see a different kind of mail initiative, it will require someone with a passion for that initiative. | ||
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I think that this tends to be too much throwing out the baby with the bathwater, as stated above. I think that Thunderbird can be a great starting point for innovation in mail, but it has to stop following in Firefox's shadow. So, I'd support any solution that helps break this lock-step development where Thunderbird creeps along piecemeal in the shadow of the larger application. I don't know that changing organizational structure will really achieve this. I think it requires a different mindset. | |||
One of the primary things that Thunderbird has always lacked is a calendar. That's one of the things the Lightning project brings to it. Since Outlook became a player on the scene, people have been conditioned to managing a calendars in the context of their e-mail. So, I think that the Thunderbird team and the calendar team need to continue working together to make a kick-ass all-in-one manager of internet information (which in my mind is the number one selling feature of Thunderbird). That is also how I see Thunderbird fulfilling its portion of the Mozilla manifesto. | |||
Now, all this stated, I would be willing to aid the new mail initiative by helping them integrate with the existing calendar functionality. We have a ton of good calendaring code in the mozilla tree, with a decent architecture, and I want this mail initiative to make use of that code so that we can continue to interoperate across all the mozilla products both the existing ones and the ones to come. | |||