On 12/3/2015 8:09 AM, Benjamin Kerensa wrote:
I'm just going to add that Mitchell's email while we u see stand what she
said I think the messaging could have been different. I'm unsure if PR was
consulted but the end result has been very negative media for Thunderbird
as a project and Mozilla across media in all countries.
I don't even know why it was necessary to email Mozilla Governance since
nothing is being proposed yet technically. Why not reach out to Thunderbird
Council and other stakeholders? It seems like this message created the
perfect recipe for FUD when nothing is changing today or likely in the near
future.
It is great to finally hear what's going on or what Mozilla leadership
thinks but I don't think the world needed to know all this until more
things were certain and there was a game plan in place.
I read a response to one of those negative press reports that said,
"Isn't this at least the third time I've heard that Thunderbird is
dead?" When I go to open-source gatherings, frequently people are
surprised that I work with Thunderbird, because they thought Thunderbird
died years ago.
Yet a couple of weeks ago we hit our highest ADI ever, 9.8 million
users. We expect a major celebration next year as we pass 10 million
ADI, which using standard ADI->actual user multipliers, should represent
about 25,000,000 total users. Meanwhile we are all busy getting ready
for our next major release.
So I don't really have much concern about what the press is saying. I
understand that Mozilla does given their mission, and we will work with
them as necessary to clarify the message for Mozilla's sake, but our
mission as Thunderbird is simply to best serve whatever users we have,
full stop.
Because we are a community project, we discuss our real issues openly.
If the press decides to grab onto some topic and run with it, we cannot
control that, and we won't try. I will not promote more closed
discussions out of fear for FUD from the press.
:rkent
Chair, Thunderbird Council
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