Brainstorm first; define 1.0 later

[Gus Mueller]

On Jan 16, 2010, at 1:41 PM, Brent Simmons wrote:

> It's too soon to talk about the specifics of a 1.0 release -- let's first just brainstorm, then we'll have a pretty good idea of what people are looking for.
> 
> What are you looking for in an email client?

A good UI, and extensibility via plugins.  So it would have to have some sort of a defined plugin api for programmers to code against.  It's really hard to this for a 1.0- so I'd suggest it be marked as "experimental", but it would be nice to have.

It would be also nice, if there were a standard database / message store that it wasn't tied to too closely.  That way forks could happen, and maybe a new client would be able to read the database without any problems.  Or maybe even another process (python?) could be able to read/write to the message store.

-gus

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August 'Gus' Mueller
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