Thunderbird's future and SeaMonkey

[Ricardo Palomares Martinez]

Hi,

I've found with great surprise the news about Mozilla
Foundation/Corporation thinking of dropping Thunderbird as a Mozilla
product:

http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/mitchell/archives/2007/07/email_futures.html
http://scott-macgregor.org/blog/?p=4

Putting aside comments and thoughts (there are a lot of them in those
blogs comments, and even some people were predicting this kind of
movements [1][2]), how could this affect small community projects like
SeaMonkey and Calendar?

[1] http://www.bengoodger.com/2007/04/the_autonomous_future.html
[2] http://mozillamemory.org/details.php?id=7277&p=1 (look for "I
don’t know how much you want me to talk about this")

Ricardo.

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then what exactly are the OTHERS here for?

[Benoit Renard]

There are more SeaMonkey people working on mailnews than Thunderbird
people, so I'm not worried about it.

[Andrew Schultz]

Benoit Renard wrote:
> There are more SeaMonkey people working on mailnews than Thunderbird
> people, so I'm not worried about it.

That's a rather misleading statement. Thunderbird has 2 expert people
working full time and maybe a few other volunteers. SeaMonkey has a few
volunteers who work on mail. Whether or not you can come up with a way
to count more SeaMonkey people than Thunderbird people is an exercise in
arbitrariness. What's clear is that people working on mail for
Thunderbird do a lot more work than SeaMonkey people.

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Andrew Schultz
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