Mozilla moves some of its employees to other projects. But there is a good chance that Thunderbird did not die. Thunderbird is a very popular free e-mail client. It was created with the Firefox browser, Mozilla when it split the package into separate Mozilla Suite applications.
Mitchell Baker announced changes. The beginning of the message is a bit dramatic - Thunderbird will no longer be developed. But still, these things have already happened before and no one was hurt in this. But one after another, because open source matters have never been easy. Ms. Mitchell explained that the continuation of the development of Thunderbird is not the best solution for Mozilla. The Foundation will allocate its production capacity to more important goals. On one hand, I wish the other - Thunderbird actually some time ago was great, but its development is probably a bit slowed - comparing it to competing applications.
Mozilla's plan is as follows. The latest version of Thunderbird will be released in November. Foundation, aims to update the application. This change will not be furnishing a new feature, but only on the security. Then Thunderbird will be put into the hands of eager developers, and the community will take care of the development program. Crazy? Not necessarily, Mozilla has made some time ago similar movement in the Mozilla Suite. The package is developed to this day, is doing well and is called SeaMonkey.
It should be borne in mind that the Thunderbird project emerged a completely new application - Postbox program is much improved compared to the original, and it creates the former head of the developers of the original Thunderbird. One problem - it is paid.
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