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I think a lot of people are forgetting that there is still a community developing it since Mozilla stopped "updating" it, beyond maintenance, in 2012. The produ
by codelitt 11y ago
I think a lot of people are forgetting that there is still a community developing it since Mozilla stopped "updating" it, beyond maintenance, in 2012. The product isn't dying, just will no longer be Mozilla backed. I assume that maintenance, like ongoing updates, will be passed to the community and hopefully another company steps up to back the project.
Repo for Thunderbird:
https://hg.mozilla.org/comm-central https://hg.mozilla.org/comm-central
- click170 11y agoThanks for highlighting the repo! I too had heard development had stopped and misconstrued that to mean all development. Now I'm wondering if there are any issues I might be able to help fix. I still use Thunderbird so if I can help keep it alive, I'd like to. As parent pointed out, most of the alternatives are worse.
- codelitt 11y agoNo problem. I think everyone got out their pitchforks without reading Mozilla's announcement and looking at the repo. There are always issues to help out on. Here's a bit more info on contributing [0]. I imagine it won't change much as the project is officially handed off to the community. It's largely led by the community anyways at this point. [0]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Introduction https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Introduction