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Comment by detaro | Hacker News Reader

title should be the one of the submitted e-mail: "Proposal to start a new implementation of Thunderbird based on web technologies", especially since "is in the works" doesn't seem to be the case yet. (Lots of discussion, continuing into April, but unless I missed it no actual decision made and work begun yet.)

The thread is worth a read, interesting arguments regarding rewrite/refactor/approaches to transition.

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According to Cambridge Dictionary "in the works" has the following meaning:

  in the process of being planned or done

Thunderbird replacement is currently being planned, so I think it's correct.

I think it's that "in the works" seems to imply an agreement/commitment, but this appears to be a proposal.

This is a post[0] from one of the project leaders:

However, I think we all agree we want the Thunderbird replacement to be a desktop client (plus other platforms like mobile), and based on web technologies, most importantly written in JavaScript.

But the title has now been changed and that is fine with me.

[0]https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/tb-planning/2017-April/00...

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