Fair enough. Was TB just not financially worthwhile for Mozilla to continue? They didn't want to compete with Hotmail/Outlook, Gmail, etc?tanstaafl wrote:Not creating a new major version (after Mozilla stopped funding development) would have eventually killed the project. Look at Eudora for example. Even its support forums are gone. Funding was also a big issue for a long time. Initially the Thunderbird Council didn't get much money from donations.Hey Man wrote:If they are going to bother launching a new version at all - why not just get feedback from a majority of TB users through surveys, etc over a year let's say and launch a new email service featuring all the best aspects of TB without the crap that have endlessly frustrated people. Stop relying on Mozilla immediately. Rebrand and give people what they want.
They rejected the idea of creating a Thunderbird Foundation. Instead they looked at creating a legal/fiscal home with either the Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC), the Document Foundation (TDF), or making a new deal with the Mozilla Foundation. They chose the later because it would supposedly make it easier to deal with certain pain points such as build/release, localization, and divergent plans with respect to add-ons. I wish they had chosen differently.
They argued for over two years about creating a new version of Thunderbird that used different technologies, while still remaining "Thunderbird". They never reached a decision or a consensus. There has also been several changes in leadership, which didn't help. They hired a technical manager in August. Hopefully that will eventually improve things.
If you don't mind me asking - can you possibly address the font issue that a few people seem to be having with this update. I am assuming that since you are a mod, you know how to solve these problems quickly. Unless I have misunderstood the role of mod and it's not about knowing TB like the back of your hand, but is more about keeping order here.
Is there a way to get the font size to be the exact same consistently - when it comes to sending and receiving email. It used to be like that with the previous version, but now after fixing my composing issue, I am still having a receiving issue as the font size is still reduced.
My specific issue is here with an image that I just posted:
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic ... &t=3043484
Thank you so much.