[Vtigercrm-developers] Thunderbird Address book

[John Crisp]

I was bemoaning the rapid release schedule for Thunderbird here :
https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/tb-enterprise


I have received a reply from one of the developers as follows, the
interesting point here being the new address book. I thought it might be
relevant reading for Alan :

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Features/Thunderbird/Modern_Address_Book


I am looking forward to replying to his comments about the definition of
stable :-)

B. Rgds
John

>> This continuous updating has been driving me mad, and I am fed with the
>> amount of time it has (and still is) costing me every time there is a
>> new update that I find has broken things. 7 has been painful, and 8
>> completely stopped two of my machines and I had to revert them to 7.

Can you be more explicit as to your actual problems, or can you
reference bugs you've filed? We're working on improving many things at
the moment, having the knowledge of what is actually going wrong helps a
lot.

>> Thunderbird had been very stable and usable for some long time, but with
>> the adoption of the rapid release, this dissolved overnight and has
>> caused me to look at changing our email client. I just can't afford the
>> time.

Would you also define stable please? That can actually mean a lot of
things to different people.

>> WRT some other comments on the list, I would say that proper calendar
>> integration AND more methods for contact synchronisation (not everyone
>> uses LDAP) are two key points.

We're currently working on a new address book, we're working on the
specifications and design at the moment. One of the things we are
looking at is improving the contact providers which I expect will
include more by default and allow others to create their own add-ons.
Background information is here:
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Features/Thunderbird/Modern_Address_Book - it
isn't final and is open to comment and change.

Regards
Mark.