On 3/11/14, 8:49 AM, Majken Connor wrote:
I am not sure if this is true, but it seems that when things have been
moved "to community" there hasn't been a transition plan that has set the
community group (vs org group) up for success. What I mean is that, it
seems like Mozilla has said "these are the resources we can spare" rather
than saying "ok you need this amount of time to get these leadership
structures in place, and you'll need x amount of mentoring."
I don't think it's true. I think it's mostly perception.
I spent the better part of a year helping in various ways to transition
SeaMonkey to volunteer ownership in 2005 (after maintaining it well into
Firefox's lifetime.) I may have done a poor job, I hope not, but to say
there wasn't a transition plan is not fair. I think the same is true
for Thunderbird, but I wasn't very involved there.
That it "seems" this way is a concern. But I'd rather have the
perception of failure than the actual failure here. That SeaMonkey is
still shipping releases as a low-priority Mozilla project almost 10
years later suggests that the transition wasn't a failure.
Kairo can probably say more.
- A
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