[MlMt] Latest normal release?

[Sam Birch]

Knowing how many users are using each “hidden” preference would 
probably be useful, too. I imagine keeping all of those working isn’t 
free.

Cheers,
-sam

On 11 Nov 2022, at 10:52, Glenn Parker wrote:

> 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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