Indeed. Could we get them to do a 1-3 minute standup/what's-new-in... in
the project meeting? Maybe not necessarily every meeting, but maybe a
shared slot where we get an update every so often? I would love to keep
hearing about what's happening with Persona and Thunderbird. Regular
planet posts (like we get for bugzilla!) would also be helpful.
~ Gijs
On 13/03/2014 19:48, Majken Connor wrote:
It's great to hear from the people working on these projects. I think the
real problem is that we just aren't talking about them anymore, we don't
know who's working on them and we don't see that they're still doing great.
On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 12:34 PM, »Q« <[email protected]> wrote:
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.
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