Bon, la nouvelle commence à faire le tour du web, même si elle a filtré un peu trop tôt par rapport à ce que prévoyait Mozilla. Ceux qui font parti du groupe Mozilien l'on déjà appris via ce message:
J'ai pas trop le temps de traduire, mais en gros, Mozilla souhaite stopper d'ajouter de nouvelles fonctions à Thunderbird, et ne fournira plus que des mises à jour de stabilité et sécurité. Ce sera à la communauté de reprendre le dév. de nouvelles fonctions, si elle le juge nécessaire.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+ millions 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 Piacintino
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/Pr ... ance_Model
Info on Modules and Thunderbird owners: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Modules
L'annonce officielle sur le blog de Mitchell:Thunderbird: Stability and Community Innovation
Un autre écho sur le blog de Mike Conley: No, that’s not “it” for Thunderbird…
Si j'approuve le fait que Thunderbird est un produit mature et qui satisfait la plupart des besoins des utilisateurs de messagerie (donc qu'il n'y a en effet pas besoin de nouvelles fonctions), j'ai bien peur aussi que la correction de vieux bugs nécessitant des modifications de code importantes ne voient jamais le jour (exemple: rédaction de message dans un onglet...)
