Rated 5 out of 5 stars

by Firefox user e78e44 on Aug. 2, 2019 ·

I do not know for how many years I have been a loyal user of Thunderbird. Due to compatibility, I have to use MS windows. But I try to avoid as many parts of the Bill Gates group.

I admire all those who want to invest so much time to add add-ons to a standard product. And more important .... to maintain it over the years. I was shocked that the basic code of TB is being adjusted to a large extent. And that it even takes you months of work to keep SmartTemplate compatible. This add-on is a very valuable addition to TB for me.

If someone does something special for me, he or she usually doesn't ask for a reward. Nevertheless, I would like to give a small gift for that. I therefore have no problem with those 5 bucks. But what is Marky Mark's contribution to this add-on?

This review is for a previous version of the add-on (2.1). 

by Realraven (Axel Grude) (Developer) on Aug. 2, 2019 ·

thanks!

Mark helped me build the support site and does some of the user support (especially German support) - he is also the one who managed the Add-on before I joined the project in 2012, when he was desperately looking for a developer to maintain the code.

Code changes have been quite substantial this round (we were as shocked as you), that's why this version took 7 months to complete; expect more frequent version updates in the future - a 6 weeks turnaround is usual for my Add-ons.

I am already planning some important changes for August / September in case Stationery won't be updated (I reached out to the author for many months but he didn't react anymore - maybe he walked away because of lack of time) - one of the problems with the expectation of "a working product" is that people do not know how much work is involved to keep it up to date.

My code repository: https://github.com/RealRaven2000/SmartTemplate4/

Code differences since 2.0: https://github.com/RealRaven2000/SmartTemplate4/commit/48747954550ed00d2dadcdaf211cb9da0f7e3517