Mozilla Rallenta Lo Sviluppo Di Thunderbird

In questi ultimi mesi il client di posta elettronica Thunderbird non ha più ricevuto aggiornamenti importanti. Era ormai nell’aria che Thunderbird fosse un progetto laterale per Mozilla ma ora tutto ciò è stato reso ufficiale. Andiamo a vedere in dettaglio.

Thunderbird Che Fine Farà

In questi giorni è stato annunciato da parte di Mozilla di voler dedicare un minor numero di risorse per Thunderburd, il client di posta elettronica di Mozilla. L’obiettivo di Mozilla è quello di focalizzare le proprie energie su progetti come Firefox OS, il nuovo sistema operativo conosciuto come Boot to Gecko che verrà lanciato nei prossimi mesi per il mondo mobile, e anche Firefox, il browser di Mozilla che deve mantenere buone percentuali di adozione. Il futuro sistema operativo Firefox OS sarà un importante step da parte della stessa azienda che ha deciso di investire sul mondo mobile permettendo anche di sviluppare applicazioni in HTML5.

The Firefox OS for mobile devices is built on Mozilla’s “Boot to Gecko project” which unlocks many of the current limitations of web development on mobile, allowing HTML5 applications to access the underlying capabilities of a phone, previously only available to native applications.

Il client di posta elettronica Thunderbird è rimasto in sordina negli ultimi tempi non ricevendo aggiornamenti importanti. Questo progressivo abbandono, a nostro avviso, era stato, in un modo o nell’altro, già programmato. La strategia di Mozilla è quindi quella di poter mantenere Thunderbird attivo ma rilasciare con frequenza inferiore aggiornamenti ed eventuali bugfix.

Mozilla is not “stopping” Thunderbird development, it has just decided that: “continued innovation on Thunderbird is not the best use of our resources given our ambitious organizational goals.” And it’s pulling people off the project. But it’s not stopping? Right.

Crediamo, che essendo un progetto open source, la comunità web rilascierà aggiornamenti e continuerà a sviluppare il client. Cosa ne pensate? Credete sia ancora utile per Mozilla procedere nello sviluppo del client di posta?

Vi alleghiamo la lettera che Mozilla ha pubblicato:

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

Additional information:

New release and governance model for Thunderbird will be available here concurrently to Mitchell’s post:

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird/Proposal:_New_Release_and_Governance_Model

Info on Modules and Thunderbird owners:

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Modules

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