Mozilla Thunderbird leaders take wing
p2pnet news | Product News:- Scott McGregor and David Bienvenu, two of Mozilla Thunderbird’s key developers, are leaving, but both say they’ll still be working on the project in their own time.
“I wanted to let the Thunderbird community know that Friday October 12th will be my last day as an employee of the Mozilla Corporation,” blogs McGregor. “I plan to continue on, as a volunteer, with my role as a module owner for the Thunderbird project.”
Says Bienvenu, “Just wanted to let everyone know that my last day at The Mozilla Corporation will be Oct. 12. I intend to stay involved with Thunderbird and to continue on as a module owner. I’ve enjoyed working at Mozilla a lot, and I wish Mozilla Co and the new Mail Co all the best.”
“To head off speculations of Thunderbird’s demise back when Mozilla announced it was spinning the project off from the Firefox camp, Bienvenu posted an interesting and detailed look at the Thunderbird team and the breakdown of labor,” writes Scott Gilbertson on Wired, going on:
As it turns out, quite a lot of the work on Thunderbird falls on volunteers.
Here’s how the Thunderbird workload breaks down, according to Bienvenu:
* 2 Full Time Mail developers (David and Scott)
* ~ 12 active mail developer volunteers (including Seamonkey Mail contributors)
* 4 Thunderbird front end peers & module owners
* over 35 localizations done entirely by volunteers
* 8 back end peers & module owners.
* Over the last six months, 56% of the mail patches originated from community members
* 93 different developers contributed at least one patch over that period.
What remains unclear is who will replace Bienvenu and McGregor and how much Mozilla plans to beef up the Thunderbird staff as the project transitions to its new home at the Thunderbird Mail Corporation.
Also See:
spinning the project off – Mozilla Thunderbird seeks new home, July 27, 2007
Wired – Trouble At The Henhouse: Thunderbird Loses Key Developers, October 8, 2007
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