This is a long-ish message. It covers general topics about Thunderbird
and the future, and also the topics of the Foundation involvement (point
9) and the question of merging repositories (point 11). Naturally, I
believe it’s worth the time to read through the end.
1. Firefox and Thunderbird
Hi all
As a follow on to Mitchell’s post, I want to outline more specifically
how the Foundation got involved and the ways in which I believe the
Foundation can assist in this situation.
Mitchell and I have had a number of discussions regarding Thunderbird.
The Thunderbird Council has also
It's not immediately clear (and maybe that's because it's truly undecided),
but is this an effort to separate Thunderbird from Mozilla entirely
(perhaps live on under Apache, someone else, or stand alone)? Or would it
be an independent project under the Mozilla Foundation, but no
infrastructure/tec
I think this is rather disappointing and wish Mozilla would continue to
support Thunderbird as a Mozilla community-driven project. Thunderbird has
continued to grow[1] despite Mozilla removing paid staff from its
development and eliminating resources it had. (Actually has more users than
Firefox OS
Hi Robert
Truly undecided. Obviously there's both "mozilla-ness" and
history with the Mozilla Foundation. And there are some drawback
about being part of something with the impact goals that we
have. It's possible that being associated with an organizat
Hi Benjamin
And yes, we want to see a good setting. Both Mark and i are among
the dedicated Thunderbird user group, and I use Thunderbird to
organize vast parts of my life. When I say that Thunderbird and
Firefox must disentangle, it's not because I don'
