Mozilla više neće ulagati u Thunderbird?

U e-mail poruci koja je procurela u javnost, JP Piacentino, glavni menadžer za Thunderbird, piše kako "nastavak inovacija na projektu Thunderbird nije najbolji način kako iskoristiti naše resurse kako bi se ostvarili ambiciozni ciljevi".

U prenesenom značenju, vrlo je verovatno da Mozilla više neće ulagati u razvoj svog e-mail klijenta već će se skonvcentrisati na nove projekte.

Ipak zanimljivo je da je samo pre nekih mesec dana Mozilla najavila kako će objaviti novu verziju svog mail klijenta koji će biti u mogućnosti da šalje velike datoteke, a imaće mogućnost kreiranja personalizovanih mail adresa, prenosi TechCrunch.

Iako su svi koji su primili mail bili zamoljeni da ne puštaju ove informacije u javnost sve do ponedeljka, neko očito nije mogao da bude strpljiv pa je ceo mail stigao na adrese raznih medija.

U nastavku donosimo celo pismo koje su primili "Mozillians"

Hello Mozillians:

On Monday Mitchell Baker will be posting on the future of Thunderbird.

We’d like you to be aware of it before it goes public. However, this is *confidential* until the post is pushed live Monday afternoon PDT. Please don’t tweet, blog or discuss on public mailing lists before then.

In summary, we’ve been focusing efforts towards important web and mobile projects, such as B2G, while Thunderbird remains a pure desktop-only email client. We have come to the conclusion that continued innovation on Thunderbird is not the best use of our resources given our ambitious organizational goals. The most critical needs for the product are on-going security and stability for our 20+ million users.

However, Thunderbird is one of the very few truly free and open source multi-platform email applications available today and we want to defend these values. We’re not “stopping” Thunderbird, but proposing we adapt the Thunderbird release and governance model in a way that allows both ongoing security and stability maintenance, as well as community-driven innovation and development for the product. This will mean an eventual shift in how we staff Thunderbird at Mozilla Corporation – we are still working out details, but some people will likely end up on other Mozilla projects.

We are going to open this plan for public discussion to individuals and organizations interested in maintaining and advancing Thunderbird in the future on Monday. We are looking for your feedback, comments and suggestions to refine and adapt the plan in the best possible way throughout the summer so we can share a final plan of action in early September 2012.

If you have any questions prior to Monday please reach out to me [jb@mozilla.com] or Mitchell [mitchell@mozilla.org]. Again, this information is for Mozillians-only until Mitchell’s post goes live.

Regards,

Jb Piacentino
Thunderbird Managing Director

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