On 27.10.2010 01:39, David Gerard wrote: > On 26 October 2010 23:35, Zugravu Gheorghe <zugravu.gheor...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> And as a small comment: Thunderbird is free (as in freedom) application >> and allows to do whatever manipulation with the code (and there are a >> bunch of thunderbird customization already available there) - thus if >> there is a need this need can solved by the community. - And Wikimedia >> could make a call for improvements in the code of TB, which I believe >> would have be taken into consideration by the developers. And more >> people could have used the results of that - thus generating a better >> and smoother application (as in the wikipedia articles). > > > It is indeed theoretically possible to make Thunderbird as good as > Gmail and Google Calendar. In practice, no-one's managed to do so in > six years, despite quite a lot of effort. This suggests that although > possible, it may not in fact be feasible. > > The necessary condition for a move to Thunderbird instead would be an > existence proof, i.e. a build that is as useful a tool as the Google > tools. Which, note, are not even proper applications, but browser > pages. > > > - d.
I would say that Thunderbird got a lot of improvements since v1, and there is still a lot to do with the code. As an example of customization I can bring this example (http://www.synovel.com/collab/components) but I believe there are many more of such ones. Anyway since there was taken a decision, I guess that the IT people had made the best choose in order to satisfy all the folks. regards, /gheorghe _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
