Its been almost a year since I started working on the CoRD Project. In that time we’ve released 0.5, which was in “beta” for almost 18 months when I started tinkering with it in March of 2009. We’ve also released two minor updates that fixed major issues and added features, and are getting ready to release a third release (0.5.3) that will hopefully fix a few problems. Work on a 0.6 release has started, and rudimentary code has been put in place to allow groups. Going completely off of the amount of releases and code changes, it may seem like we’ve been resting on our laurels, but I wanted to point out the massive changes we’ve made on the backend in the past year that will help us accelerate releases and hopefully prevent another 18 month drought of updates and information.
For those not aware, there was a recent mess started by Brent Simmons on creating a new open source email client for Macs, to be called Letters.app. I’ve been following the carnage since Monday and just wanted to lay down some random thoughts here.
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