There were leaks of Mitch Baker's announcement of the changes, which
were interpreted by the gutter-blogs as "Thunderbird has been scrapped",
if you read around from here
http://blog.mozilla.org/thunderbird/
You'll see that's not true ...
This is from Mitchell Baker's blog
"Much of Mozilla’s leadership — including that of the Thunderbird team —
has come to the conclusion that on-going stability is the most important
thing, and that continued innovation in Thunderbird is not a priority
for Mozilla’s product efforts. (For more information about the path to
this conclusion, see the “Background Information” section below.) As a
result, the Thunderbird team has developed a plan that provides both
stability for Thunderbird’s current state and allows the Thunderbird
community to innovate if it chooses."
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http://blog.lizardwrangler.com/2012/07/06/thunderbird-stability-and-community-innovation/>
Mitchell Baker is the Chair of Mozilla Foundation (aka Lizar Wrangler
according to Wikipedia) so she should know better.
These are not leaks but real quotes from the blog. It is now up to the
independent developers to develop the product (i.e. add new features
should it be necessary) and distribute it presumably under a different
name otherwise there is likely to be a confusion if TB continues in
tandem with new incarnation by independent developers.
Hope this helps.
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