[MlMt] Latest normal release?

[Glenn Parker]

On 6 Nov 2022, at 7:42, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:

> 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.

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.

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.

Is this something Benny could offload to volunteers? Could people comb 
the bug tracker for things like this and put out a summary?

Glenn P. Parker
glenn.parker at comcast.net
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