I have been trying on and off for the last two years to get Thunderbird
usage data available to the current volunteer-driven Thunderbird core
team, and to get permission to publish that data either on private
blogs, or on the official Thunderbird blog. There seems to be universal
support for this within the Thunderbird community, but the only people
who seem to have access to the data are former staff members of the now
defunct Mozilla Messaging effort.
We have a story that we would like to tell, of increasing usage of
Thunderbird over the last few years in spite of media reports that
"Thunderbird is dead", and yet nobody seems to be able to figure out who
has the permission to let us tell that story.
I only know the data exists because I occasionally get emails from
former Mozilla Messaging staff with the data and associated graphs, but
because they do not have permission to share it, the emails are always
sent with "here it is, but please do not share this publically."
How do we get 1) current core team members on the list of people
receiving these usage emails, and 2) permission to publicly release this
data?
I sometimes get these answers:
1) Ask the current Module owners (who are Mozilla staff). Done that,
they not able to make progress, and they are not the people driving the
effort. They don't know either who can give permission.
2) The data is available anyway on crash stats, so what is the big deal?
The big deal is that there are nice graphs that are generated somewhere
in Mozilla that are perfect for our blog posts, that show data growth
over the last five years. Crash stats only seems to have a few months of
data available. It is the history that tells the story. Seems a pity to
reproduce these graphs manually when they already exist.
See
http://mesquilla.com/2014/07/31/thunderbirds-future-the-tldr-version/
for some perspective.
So, how do we get this done?
:rkent
Mailnews Peer and Thunderbird Hacker
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