Brainstorm first; define 1.0 later

[Ben Reubenstein]

I really, REALLY like the idea of using a standard database. That layer
gives users flexibility as well as allows a diverse group of developers to
tap into the data.

~ Ben

On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 2:45 PM, Gus Mueller <gus at flyingmeat.com> wrote:

> 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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