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<body><div style="font-family: sans-serif;"><div class="plaintext" style="white-space: normal;"><p dir="auto">On 6 Nov 2022, at 7:42, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:</p>
<blockquote style="margin: 0 0 5px; padding-left: 5px; border-left: 2px solid #777777; color: #777777;"><p dir="auto">That's a very good question, but I don't really have a good answer. I'm to blame for this (as with all things related to MailMate). The starting point was major changes to the message view of MailMate which then cascaded into other parts of MailMate eventually making it very hard to make updates which would not break existing features for some users.</p>
</blockquote><p dir="auto">Any sustainable software development cycle has to include phasing out old non-essential features. There is also a natural reluctance to negatively impact existing users. This is especially true in a close user community like MailMate’s, where we all can interact directly with the solo developer.</p>
<p dir="auto">Why not spend some quality time re-assessing these old features? A feature survey would be informative for us (exposing problematic features we might be relying on). And it might go the other way, revealing that old features are not worth the extra sweat to maintain.</p>
<p dir="auto">Is this something Benny could offload to volunteers? Could people comb the bug tracker for things like this and put out a summary?</p>
<p dir="auto">Glenn P. Parker
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glenn.parker@comcast.net</p>
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