In <news:[email protected]>, Jb Piacentino <[email protected]> wrote:
> In the case of Thunderbird, we, as a community, spent about 8 months > discussing the best options for the product moving forward. There was > indeed the notion of 'the resources we can spare', but more > importantly, the facts that ' continued innovation in Thunderbird > [was] not a priority for Mozilla's product efforts > <https://blog.lizardwrangler.com/2012/07/06/thunderbird-stability-and-community-innovation/>' > > and ' on-going stability [was] the most important thing'. It was the > Thunderbird leadership team responsability to set the limits of what > Mozilla was ready to 'spend' for the ongoing stability effort, and > the community as a whole, to define on the product objectives and new > governance model. > As a matter of fact, and since then, Thunderbird's user base > continues to grow... The last paragraph at <http://www.ghacks.net/2014/03/08/mozilla-makes-authentication-system-persona-community-project/> reads: Persona's future looks bleak, especially if you look at Thunderbird's transition to a community project. Yes, it will still be maintained and works just fine, but since it has not reached the adoption levels when Mozilla put resources behind the project, it is very likely that adoption will slow down even further or even come to a halt due to the change. I don't know how the impression that Thunderbird hasn't done well since the transition got out there, but there it is. Whenever Mozilla moves paid developer time off a project, ISTM Thunderbird will continue to be the blogosphere's reference point, so maybe it would help if future Mozilla announcements mentioned the success of Thunderbird. _______________________________________________ governance mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
