Check out what Dolske did. Cool! Interestingly, I had another interesting conversation today about the need to think about adapting Thunderbird for use in small form-factor devices (like the subnotebooks/netpc’s that are coming out). Not coincidental, methinks.
Archive for July, 2008
OSCON
OSCON is the conference that I seem to attend the most regularly. In particular, the hallway conversations are great. Not being a Perl guy, I never went to the Perl Conference, but I was involved in organizing the first Python track at the first OSCON IIRC, and I think I’ve been every year since. This [...]
Who do we need to build and promote an open internet?
To jump in in the discussion between e.g David Eaves, Marc Surman and Mitchell Baker about what the open internet is, let me try and insert a bridging perspective. Mitchell, very grounded in the Mozilla project, comes at the problem from the technology angle. I certainly agree that without a technological basis, it’s hard to [...]
Linux smoketesters needed
UPDATED: see the end As part of a release (say, for the sake of illustration, the next alpha of Thunderbird), we try to run the software through a set of tests. The more widespread the release, the more tests. Nightlies don’t go through any non-automated tests. The final release will go through a lot. For [...]
