I really love Thunderbird; I've been using it for at least a decade now. There are definitely places where it still needs improvement, after years and years. While Betterbird seems exciting in theory, the attitude of the project leader (who it seems is a banned former contributor to Mozilla Thunderbird), and honestly even the arrogance in the name itself gives me pause.
The issues laid out in this[0] email thread are pretty concerning, as is the fact that the response seemed to be trying get out of the first temporary ban on technicalities, rather than addressing the behaviors that caused the ban to begin with. Even worse is that he violated the temporary ban. Then I saw this[1] recent email response which left yet another bad taste in my mouth.
To the dev's credit, everything is very transparent, but if I learned anything about FOSS drama (see Netgate v. Wireguard, 2021) it's that the loudest side is probably not the one I want to follow.
The issues laid out in this[0] email thread are pretty concerning, as is the fact that the response seemed to be trying get out of the first temporary ban on technicalities, rather than addressing the behaviors that caused the ban to begin with. Even worse is that he violated the temporary ban. Then I saw this[1] recent email response which left yet another bad taste in my mouth.
To the dev's credit, everything is very transparent, but if I learned anything about FOSS drama (see Netgate v. Wireguard, 2021) it's that the loudest side is probably not the one I want to follow.
[0] https://www.betterbird.eu/faq/moz-governance.pdf [1] https://www.betterbird.eu/answer.html