I would contact Mike Hoye who has already volunteered to help smooth some of the edges around issues impacting Thunderbird's direction. I would also include the Thunderbird Module and Peers in these discussions and they should be able to provide some answers.
I know Mike Conley one of the Thunderbird peers is pretty responsive to email. On Aug 18, 2014 1:40 PM, "Kent James" <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 > _______________________________________________ > governance mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance _______________________________________________ governance mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
