first-class categories of their own in a discussion forum. Our goal is to make it easier for developers and potential contributors to look at GitHub issues and find actionable ways to help by restricting issues to ready-for-development bugs, tasks and features, while giving questions, themes, etc. To better facilitate contribution, we’re replacing the Mailspring community Slack with a discussion board (coming in the next day or two) that will be home to themes, plugins and conversations about issues and potential features. He’s also a skilled developer and Linux user, and I’m super excited to have his help fixing bugs and more rapidly addressing problems on the Linux platform. He will likely be restructuring our issue submission templates, process, and labels, etc. To that effect, I’m excited to announce that I’ve brought on as a volunteer community manager! He brings expertise in organizing online communities and will be a huge help tagging, triaging and taming GitHub issues. In 2021, I’m determined to return the project to a regular release cadence with bug fixes and new feature development, to elevate contributors who can help maintain it, and reduce our “bus factor”. More than 250,000 people have tried Mailspring across Mac, Windows and Linux, we’ve added tons of features, translated the UI into 13 languages, and addressed and closed more than a 1,000 GitHub issues.Ģ020 was a super challenging year in a lot of ways, and development fell off and eventually stopped for the last half of the year. Since I originally launched the project (by adopting and partially re-writing Nylas Mail) in 2016, the Mailspring community has grown by leaps and bounds. Hey folks! Hope everyone had a safe and happy new year - I appreciate the thoughts and discussion here, and I’m excited to announce some big changes coming to Mailspring as we look into 2021! As some of you may have noticed, Mailspring development was largely stalled during 2020 (and no surprise, given what that year was!) There was a bit of concern about Mailspring being abandoned, but thankfully, rumors of the project’s death were greatly exaggerated.
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