K-9 Mail release schedule

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@tboorman

Now that K-9 Mail is part of the Thunderbird family, is there going to be a more frequent release schedule, as there is with Thunderbird?

There’s still little more than one person working on the Android app. While we plan to hire another Android developer in the not too distant future, I don’t think it’s likely that the Android app will have a regular release schedule soon.

Including beta versions there have already been 18 releases this year. Is that frequency too low for you?

@stphn

Also, will there be an official roadmap for planned features and bug fixes?

There’s a list of high level items: Android Roadmap - Thunderbird
I wouldn’t put much faith in the “Expected Delivery” dates.

@stphn

Still in the pipeline is the “old account overview” (at least if I remember correctly it was planned for 6.200 and had been pushed out because of urgent OAuth2 implementations, but not mentionend for current Beta…)

The separate account overview screen is not a focus of the next release. I believe this needs a lot of design design work to make sure there’s a consistent user experience. Right now the work we do with the Thunderbird designers focuses on a message view redesign (because @ByteHamster volunteered to work on this). This will probably take some time and not make it into the next release.

The main features of the next stable release will be swipe between messages (already available in 6.3xx) and most likely “swipe to action” in the message list.