Thunderbird -- Why Change Things?
One large them of responses to the Thunderbird post is the question: Why can't Thunderbird and Firefox both prosper in the same development organization? Since there is money, what's the problem?
The problem is trying to do two different types of things exceptionally well at the same time. This is extraordinarily difficult. (I'll describe why we've found Thunderbird and Firefox are different enough to make this so in a separate post.) Trying to do two different things requires a constant balancing of the needs of each. In many cases it results in an inability to optimize for either one and both projects suffering. In our case it also results in a constant need to prioritize between the two. And in this prioritization Firefox is getting and will continue to get the vast bulk of resources.
This is because the impact of the two products is wildly different. Thunderbird is a solid product that provides an open source alternative in an important area for a set of users. That's important and worthy of attention.
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Thunderbird and Eudora
As a development organization it is difficult to maintain a multi priority system. Invariably people get pulled off from one project and stuck on another.
(if anyone knows a Engineering organization that doesn't do this tell me.)
Eudora was gifted to Mozilla by Qualcom. So guess how you merge the strength of a product dating to the beginning of the internet to Thunderbird. If one can graft the two together using a "offsite" process we may have a winner.
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