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What if together we gather money to pay you updating the Thunderbird addon? #WeMissIt!

Open jibe-b opened this issue 5 years ago • 21 comments

@wangvisual We are several people who deperish a little more every day since the last upgrade…

I make the bet we can gather enough to pay you developping the next update, would you do it then?

@jikamens launched a crowdfunding campaign to fund the upgrade of the Send Later extension (do contribute to it too!), that could be the two great crowdfundings of this quarter!

@jfcayron @levinium @avegaweiss @matintokyo @ostasevych @avegaweiss @LatinSuD @daniel-lo @wsmwk @daCyberpunk @jph108 @articlecat @biva @ProfRon @jreybert @fp66 @hcdeeken @niamiot @riedel @ateliernz @kavousan @myelement88 @LRN @dominix @toehold @Inserm-CRI-LBI @baraapro @aleqx @dimitrior @robin-uk @Bbillyben

jibe-b avatar Jan 24 '20 13:01 jibe-b

@wangvisual We are several people who deperish a little more every day since the last upgrade…

I make the bet we can gather enough to pay you developping the next update, would you do it then?

@jikamens launched a crowdfunding campaign to fund the upgrade of the Send Later extension (do contribute to it too!), that could be the two great crowdfundings of this quarter!

@jfcayron @levinium @avegaweiss @matintokyo @ostasevych @avegaweiss @LatinSuD @daniel-lo @wsmwk @daCyberpunk @jph108 @articlecat @biva @ProfRon @jreybert @fp66 @hcdeeken @niamiot @riedel @ateliernz @kavousan @myelement88 @LRN @dominix @toehold @Inserm-CRI-LBI @baraapro @aleqx @dimitrior @robin-uk @Bbillyben

I'd gladly participate !

Inserm-CRI-LBI avatar Jan 24 '20 13:01 Inserm-CRI-LBI

I'd also participate if the price is within my budget. the thing is @wangvisual hasn't responded to any comment since the issue last evolved.

baraapro avatar Jan 24 '20 15:01 baraapro

We might be able to come up with a mutually satisfactory arrangement to incorporate Expression Search into my Kickstarter campaign in exchange for some combination of a portion of the proceeds of the campaign and a portion of the subscription revenue for it, if @wangvisual is interested and willing to consider switching to a subscription model for this add-on.

jikamens avatar Jan 24 '20 16:01 jikamens

Waw @Inserm-CRI-LBI @baraapro @jikamens That's amazing to see I wasn't too far from the truth! :D

@wangvisual might have considered other plans while there was no funding… and right now we talk about easing the next steps.

jibe-b avatar Jan 24 '20 22:01 jibe-b

Thank you @jibe-b - well put! I, of course, am also in.

dimitrior avatar Jan 25 '20 19:01 dimitrior

Great idea. Has anybody had any communications with @wangvisual ?

stephencmorton avatar Jan 27 '20 14:01 stephencmorton

This morning I upgraded to Thunderbird 68.4.2, and immediately thereafter ExpressionSearch began working again. Unfortunately this held for only a fleeting moment ! I restarted thunderbird and upon restart it failed again as usual. Anybody has an idea as to what differs between a regular TB restart and a post-upgrade TB restart ? Anybody experiences the same thing ? If I could simulate a post-upgrade TB restart everytime, this could potentially be exploited to get the beloved ExpressionSearch to work again. P.S. for me the workaround procedure that was described earlier (disable/reenable/restart) does not work.

Inserm-CRI-LBI avatar Jan 27 '20 14:01 Inserm-CRI-LBI

@Inserm-CRI-LBI I guess it's better to open another issue, here it's about money (yours included ;) )

jibe-b avatar Jan 27 '20 15:01 jibe-b

I'd be glad to participate too, how modest my financial help as a private/personal end-user might be, I'm sure thousands of users helping modestly could still be of some help...

fpierrat avatar Feb 03 '20 09:02 fpierrat

Since @wangvisual seems busy I am not sure if any crowdfunding campaign would help.

I'd rather put up a bounty on #80 via bountysource. The problem seem quite a few duplicated bug reports all being not that concise. E.g. are #87 or #85 maybe a better issues to put a bounty on.

Then again, actually addressing TB78 Mailextension would mean a rewrite and I am pretty sure that currently some stuff is not yet working (I thing the quickfilter function comes would be the easiest to go for but only the query function exposes enought expressiveness but does not interact with the MailTabs i think).

BTW: the title is misleading because this addon is not a webextension...

riedel avatar Feb 03 '20 20:02 riedel

To All - I looked up @jikamens Kickstarter campaign, which I invite people to take a look at (link here). Jonathan, you seem like just the kind of guy we as end-users are looking for. To @wangvisual - if you get a chance, you might like to see it also. He is offering to take over ongoing maintenance, and seems experienced in this area.

jph108 avatar Feb 03 '20 23:02 jph108

To be clear, I was not offering to take over ongoing maintenance, I was offering to incorporate this add-on into my Kickstarter campaign if the author was willing to continue maintaining it under a subscription model. I do not have the bandwidth right now to take on additional add-ons.

jikamens avatar Feb 04 '20 01:02 jikamens

@jikamens OK, thanks for the clarification, my misunderstanding.

jph108 avatar Feb 04 '20 01:02 jph108

To be clear, I was not offering to take over ongoing maintenance, I was offering to incorporate this add-on into my Kickstarter campaign if the author was willing to continue maintaining it under a subscription model. I do not have the bandwidth right now to take on additional add-ons.

The author is just not responding.

baraapro avatar Feb 04 '20 10:02 baraapro

This is my life now: 2020-02-10_18h55_23

dimitrior avatar Feb 10 '20 17:02 dimitrior

Ok so this is now completely broken in 68.5 which I upgraded to recently ... it was working (with quirks) until 68.4.2.

aleqx avatar Feb 20 '20 16:02 aleqx

Hi @markusb68 - please see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=538821 and https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1602071.

dimitrior avatar Feb 21 '20 09:02 dimitrior

@markusb68 please don't bring additional confusion and read the whole thread and the original issue #80 before posting additional bugs. It just makes the TB team angry and doesn't help. Please read notably https://github.com/wangvisual/expression-search/issues/80#issuecomment-562763022 and you can close your report on bugzilla and vote for the main bug.

biva avatar Feb 21 '20 09:02 biva

Maybe a different path would be supporting @alta88 to integrate the search syntax into TotalQuickFilter . In terms of feature, however, it lacks date support, but I might even get used to it...

riedel avatar Mar 29 '20 16:03 riedel

for anyone following here, please see: https://github.com/wangvisual/expression-search/issues/92. It works fine for me

gabbello avatar Jun 05 '20 22:06 gabbello

The question in this issue is if @rzroth would like to maintain a fork of this? And if everybody is still willing to support him...

riedel avatar Jun 07 '20 12:06 riedel