Given the comparison to other webmail apps I'm aware of (explicitely Squirrel, or Iloha earlier), Roundcube would have deserved v1.0 already a long time ago.
But given the "defensive" versioning of Roundcube in the past, I'd still like to see some glitches in terms of displaying/quoting/composing messages being fixed first, before "we" (well, you) declare it as v1.0.
I personally am not missing too many features. Well, it would of course be nice to have this or that feature, but more important to me is to get the above basics right first. Once that has been accomplished, you could easily call it even 2.0 (if I only look at the vast development from 0.8.x to 0.9).
Well, but as you're asking for a feature wish list:
- Toggle between "HTML Message" and "Text Message" with
multipart/alternative mails (currently you can only switch from Text to HTML, but not vice versa; a reply should go to the currently selected part).
- Autosave function: Store draft also locally (so that you have access to
it even if connection got lost during composing).
- Additional field in address book, which identity should be used by
default upon composing a message to a particular address book entry (pretty useful for mailing lists for instance, the first recipient in the To: field should always take precedence).
- Combined search function, e.g.: Search for all messages from a
particular sender with a specific text in the body.
Uh, that were four... Just pick three of them. ;)
But as I said: Even Roundcube in the current 0.9-git version would easily deserve a v1.0, compared to everything else.
Thanks for the incredible work, keep it up!
Michael Heydekamp Co-Admin freexp.de Düsseldorf/Germany
Am 26.01.2013 13:19, schrieb Thomas Bruederli:
Hello folks
We're in the final round of getting the 0.9 stable release ready and the question about the next major version arises. I know, our versioning has been very modest and therefore we're at 0.9 after more than 7 years of development. When starting Roundcube back in 2005, my vision about Roundcube version 1.0 was to be feature complete and ready for the average daily needs of email messaging. However, during the years we might have lost our objectivity for things like feature-completeness and that's why I'd like you to speak up for this.
Do you think Roundcube deserves the version 1.0?
My personal gut feeling says "yes, of course". Since version 0.7 we're seeing nearly 100K downloads from our mirrors and each installation of Roundcube serves up to several thousand users. While the total number of Roundcube users is still unclear, I nevertheless think that the broad use of our software is a clear indicator that it actually *is* ready for the average daily messaging.
Together with this simple yes-no question, I'd also like to give you the opportunity to submit your personal "1.0 wish list". Feel free to post your top 3 must-have features you're currently missing in Roundcube. Your feedback will help us to hopefully make the right decisions and to do the further planning for the roadmap beyond the 1.0 release.
Many thanks for your support and participation!
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