Re: Super-review - proposal to remove given lack of super-review-specific usage

2017-07-28 Thread R Kent James via governance
On 7/28/2017 2:06 PM, Emma Humphries wrote: I want to hear back from NSS and Mail/Thunderbird/Sea Monkey on this before I remove this. Thunderbird has no super-review requirement, so if there has been any usage of this it fits the pattern previously noted of really being a request for a secon

Magnus Melin is now Chair of the Thunderbird Council

2016-08-02 Thread R Kent James
. R Kent James (former) Chair of the Thunderbird Council ___ governance mailing list governance@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance

Module peer changes for Mailnews Core and submodules

2016-06-16 Thread R Kent James
are only changes in peers, we did not attempt to pick particular people as owners of modules in most cases. R. Kent James Chair, Thunderbird Council ___ governance mailing list governance@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance

Re: Thunderbird, the future, mozilla-central and comm-central

2015-12-07 Thread R Kent James
ut what the decisions are. Without clarity, it is very difficult to achieve the unity of direction that we need within the Thunderbird community to make some very difficult decisions on our own direction. -- R. Kent James Chair, Thunderbird Council @rkentjames _

Re: Thunderbird, the future, mozilla-central and comm-central

2015-12-04 Thread R Kent James
On 12/4/2015 8:48 AM, Douglas Turner wrote: If there is a plan, please reference it! I guess what I am thinking here is that there is a difference between writing new stuff using html5 and rewriting all of Firefox to remove XUL. I think that you are seeing what is the common experience of peop

Re: Thunderbird, the future, mozilla-central and comm-central

2015-12-03 Thread R Kent James
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 acr

Re: Thunderbird, the future, mozilla-central and comm-central

2015-12-03 Thread R Kent James
On 12/3/2015 4:01 AM, Henri Sivonen wrote: On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 2:47 PM, Andrew Sutherland wrote: 2) When you have addressed the technical debt, you potentially are left with something that is not the same product that Thunderbird was to begin with[1]. (:rkent's post at https://mail.mozilla.

Re: Surveillance principles draft

2015-09-10 Thread R Kent James
On 9/9/2015 4:42 PM, Majken Connor wrote: There is an implicit assumption in the way this is worded that "MY >government is assumed to be benign, but YOUR government may be dangerous." > I don't read it that way, could you be more specific on what parts give you this impression? I'd like to see

Re: Surveillance principles draft

2015-09-09 Thread R Kent James
these days. See also the large number of comments at https://blog.mozilla.org/thunderbird/2015/08/thunderbird-and-end-to-end-email-encryption-should-this-be-a-priority/ R Kent James Chair, Thunderbird Council ___ governance mailing list governance@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance

Re: Mozilla email accounts associated with community projects

2015-07-01 Thread R Kent James
On 6/30/2015 7:10 PM, timeless wrote: Also, if there is some resolution, it'd be helpful if there were a reply to this thread indicating what that resolution was (e.g. a bug report, or a policy post). In the end, we were allowed to define a mailman email list (which was just an easy way to m

Re: "Fox Yeah you do!"

2015-06-12 Thread R Kent James
On 6/12/2015 10:40 AM, f1...@pobox.com wrote: Actually, the rest of your comment was snipped above to support Kent's argument, where you state: "If we changed the campaign now then we'd get a backlash from users who oppose censorship." I'm not suggesting that the campaign be changed. I am just

Re: "Fox Yeah you do!"

2015-06-11 Thread R Kent James
On 6/9/2015 3:23 PM, Majken Connor wrote: the play on the F*bomb is definitely there but it did not have to be. This is just a sign of immature marketing by Firefox, and frankly its embarrassing. It's considered cool these days I suppose to not be offended by the f word but people such as

Re: Mozilla email accounts associated with community projects

2015-04-24 Thread R Kent James
On 4/24/2015 3:43 PM, Benjamin Kerensa wrote: Currently @mozilla.org aliases and accounts are for original @mozilla.org folks (a handful of people) and were for sometime used by foundation but that practice stopped AFAIK otherwise they are assigned anymore. I had not intended to push mozilla.or

Mozilla email accounts associated with community projects

2015-04-24 Thread R Kent James
like to create an alias thunderbird-accou...@mozilla.org that would have an associated Google developer account, that would serve as the owner of the Thunderbird GMail OAuth2 account. Or is this a non-issue and I should just file a bug to create the account? R Kent James Chair, Thunderbird