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> In turn Thunderbird will ensure the app is developed further. As a first step Thunderbird hired the current K-9 Mail maintainer, cketti (coincidentally, also
by mrrsm 4y ago
> In turn Thunderbird will ensure the app is developed further. As a first step Thunderbird hired the current K-9 Mail maintainer, cketti (coincidentally, also the author of this blog post ). Hopefully, more will follow soon.
I mean they are putting resources toward it by hiring the main dev which is a good start.
- giancarlostoro 4y agoThe highlight was about Mozilla the org not being involved. The Thunderbird org is definitely putting resources into this, not Mozilla.
- mrrsm 4y agoI thought Mozilla still owned and thus funded Thunderbird. Someone must be ensuring that employees who work for the Thunderbird project are being payed even if it is a mostly community ran project. The donation page still takes me to a Mozilla branded donation page which makes me think they are putting some resources into the project even if it isn't as fully funded as most would like.
- giancarlostoro 4y agoThe donations they receive via that page go directly to Thunderbird is my understanding. There was some chatter a few years back where I guess Thunderbird had some restructuring done so they could have better funding, I forget the specifics I remember discussing it here on HN though. Edit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22170786 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22170786