Thunderbird – passing the torch
Seems like Robert my friendly ex-neighbor* picked up the torch to provide unofficial thunderbird builds with the “famous” addressbook patch applied. I am glad my efforts are helping to provide what people obviously are craving for.
On the other hand if you look at the history of this patch it basically tells you a very sad story. Having such an important patch sitting there for years and now seeing user building there own distributions …for me this sounds like “we don’t care about our users” and does not fit the nice image that the big brother firefox has. Being involved in several open source projects myself I do know …you sometimes just don’t have time to apply that bloody patch – but for this one it is becoming ridiculous.
* Well, Melbourne wasn’t that far from Christchurch …you get used to distances down there ;-)