Archive for the ‘Open Source’ Category

Thunderbird Quality Project, one year in

Ludovic posted on QMO about the results after one year of Thunderbird bug days. The chart is impressive.
Sincere thanks to Gary, Wayne, Ludovic, and everyone else who jumps in to help.
In related news, apparently there’s a 2-for-1 sale on bug help.

Read the rest of this entry »

Positive Energy for Change, for a Change

Change is hard. I spend a lot of time trying to enable, encourage, foster, stimulate, provoke, change in software.
Part of that is because it feels like it’s that most plastic of human endeavors. That, of course, is only true to the extent that the people involved in the creation of software [...]

Read the rest of this entry »

It’s Friday: Goofy but fascinating Thunderbird Add-ons day

Two different and equally goofy but interesting add-ons are in my personal news today:
Kent James released ToneQuilla, which I like to call “BiffTones!”, which allows you to set custom notification tones based on Thunderbird rules. Emails from the spouse make one sound, emails from the grandmother make another, etc. Neat!
Andrew Sutherland, on somewhat [...]

Read the rest of this entry »

Thunderbird 3 beta 1 – a platform for innovation shapes up

Today, we’re announcing our first beta-quality release since the Thunderbird project was re-energized about a year ago. It’s exciting to see the first in what will be a series of releases aimed at a broader set of testers make it out the door.
In some ways, this is a typical beta — we’ve changed a [...]

Read the rest of this entry »