Asa Dotzler schrieb:
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.
+1
Not more to be said. And you did not do a bad job at all. Still, it was
our job as the volunteers in the community to do the heavy lifting to
keep it going. Somehow we managed. ;-)
And Persona actually has it much easier as Mozilla is depending on it
for a lot of critical infrastructure and therefore has to maintain it in
a working state out of our own interest. So "the community", in which
the previously paid developers are still heavily involved in their free
time, "only" has to care about taking over further development and not
continued operation of the infrastructure, which is still done by
Mozilla anyhow.
KaiRo
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