I guess we can call this Part 3…that is if we call Scott McGregor’s announcement (Troublesome Thunderbird News) Part 1 and David Bienvenu’s announcement (More Troublesome Thunderbird News) Part 2 . As expected Michell Baker has posted a couple articles about the transition of Thunderbird to MailCo on her blog. The first article (Thunderbird Process of Change Part 1) discusses the organizational setting of Thunderbird within Mozilla Corp since it was formed in 2003 to present and how “started to grow uncomfortable” in the later years with massive growth of the web. The second article (Thunderbird Proces of Change, Part…

  Here’s an overview of this week’s Update Meeting: Fx 2.0.0.8 – All prior landings on the Fx 2.0.0.7 branch have been moved the 2.0.0.8 branch. Code Freeze: Wednesday -October 3rd Release Candidate 1: Thursday – October 4th Beta Users Release: Thursday – October 11th Target Ship Date: Tuesday – October 16th TBird 1.5.0.13 – No Report TBird 2.0.0.8 – Released (tentative) two weeks after Fx 2.0.0.8 (note no TB 2.0.0.7 build) TBird Major Update (TBird 1.5.0.12 > 2.0.0.6) – No Report TBird 3 – No Report Fx3.0.m9/Gecko 1.9m9 – Code Freeze: Wednesday – October 17th M9 blocker report ~…

This morning I mentioned in my More Troublesome Thunderbird News post that there not being announcements from Mitchell Baker or even David Ascher. Earlier today David Ascher dropped by and left this comment and invitation: Hi — i did blog about it this morning on my own blog — I don’t have much to say about Scott & David’s departure, but I have lots to say about MailCo and thunderbird. see http://ascher.ca/blog/2007/10/06/open-letter-to-the-thunderbird-community/ As I mention in that blog, I’m keen to hear from anyone in the Thunderbird community.

Earlier this week Scott McGregor announced he was leaving Mozilla Corp.  Now comes the  announcement David Bienvenu, the only other Thunderbird Developer is also leaving on October 12th:  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. As Percy points out in his article, Thunderbird is after all an open-source project.  This means anyone can work…

On a short note, Scott McGregor, Thunderbird lead engineer, announced that on October 12 he will leave the Mozilla Corporation to pursuit other career interests. He plans, however, to continue his role as module owner for Thunderbird as a volunteer. This not a good sign for the future development of Thunderbird when the lead engineer leaves Mozilla Corp. I am beginning to wonder if Mozilla has a death sentence for Thunderbird. First back in July there was the “announcement” but then there was some good news with the announcement of the Thunderbird Mail Corporation. Now the lead project engineer announces…

Here’s an overview of this week’s Update Meeting: Fx 2.0.0.8 – All prior landings on the Fx 2.0.0.7 branch have been moved the 2.0.0.8 branch. Code Freeze: Wednesday -October 3rd Release Candidate: Friday – October 5th Target Ship Date: Tuesday – October 16th TBird 1.5.0.13 – No Report TBird 2.0.0.8 – May be released  with Fx 2.0.0.8 (note no TB 2.0.0.7 build) TBird Major Update (TBird 1.5.0.12 > 2.0.0.6) – No Report TBird 3 – No Report Fx3.0.m9/Gecko 1.9m9 – Code Freeze: October 17th 27 Beta Blockers Complete Meeting Notes.

Here’s an overview of this week’s Update Meeting: Fx 2.0.0.7 – Fire Drill (Security) Release on Tuesday, September 18th Fx 2.0.0.8 – All prior landings on the Fx 2.0.0.7 branch have been moved the 2.0.0.8 branch. Triage on-going Code Freeze: TBD Target Ship Date: 10/4 but will likely be pushed back by week or two. TBird 1.5.0.13 – No Report TBird 2.0.0.7 – No Report TBird Major Update (TBird 1.5.0.12 > 2.0.0.6) – No Report TBird 3 – No Report Fx 3.0a8/Gecko 1.9a8 – Released on Thursday, September 20th Fx3.0.m9/Gecko 1.9m9 – Currently tracking and focusing on security bugs in…

In late July there was a lot of talk about Thunderbird’s Future as Mozilla was looking at options to split off or even possible drop Thunderbird. The future is looking a lot brighter now for Thunderbird. Mitchell Baker has announced… The result is that Mozilla is launching a new effort to improve email and internet communications. We will increase our investment and focus on our current email client — Thunderbird — and on innovations in the email and communications areas. We are doing so by creating a new organization with this as its sole focus and committing resources to this…

Here’s an overview of this week’s Update Meeting: Fx 2.0.0.7 – Still on-going bug triage Tentative code freeze 9/21 Release scheduled for 10/4 Fx 15012-2006 Major Update Testing nearly done. Scheduled for this Wednesday 9/12 TBird 2.0.0.7 – No Report TBird 1.5.0.13 – No Report TBird Major Update (TBird 1.5.0.12 > 2.0.0.6) – TBird 3 – No Report Fx3 – Places Unified search in location bar search on full URL, title and tags Saved search support (bookmarks and history) Addons Enforcing secure extension updates Protocol Handling Building on feed handling (web/local handlers) Test webapp for calendaring being set up to…

Here’s an overview of this week’s Update Meeting: Fx 2.0.0.7 – Bug Triage TBird 2.0.0.7 – Triage on-going TBird 1.5.0.13 – Released on Thursday (8/23) TBird Major Update (TBird 1.5.0.12 > 2.0.0.6) – No more major update until next cycle TBird 3 – No Report Fx3 – Ongoing daily smoke testing. Focus testing of new features such as Places, Download Manager, Search bugs. See new test plan for plug-ins manager. Gecko 1.9 – M8 Code Freeze on September 5th. Here what’s being worked 1.9 Blockers Only Prioritizing those blockers which are high complexity and may have unknowns causing longer time…