Scott McGregor, Thunderbird Lead Engineer leaves Mozilla
Posted by Percy Cabello on October 4th, 2007 • Tags:
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Scott McGregorOn a short note, Scott McGregor, Thunderbird lead engineer, announced that on October 12 he will leave the Mozilla Corporation to pursuit other career interests. He plans, however, to continue his role as module owner for Thunderbird as a volunteer.

This is definitely no good news for the nascent Mozilla Internet communications subsidiary, announced last month. Losing its lead developer as a full time employee will at least slow down Thunderbird development which is currently in the very early stages of its fourth iteration.

I am sure we will soon hear comments on this news from Mozilla CEO Mitchell Baker and David Ascher, the appointed leader of the new subsidiary.

In the meantime, this is an opportunity to thank Scott for all his contributions to Thunderbird and the Mozilla project this far and I wish to see more stuff coming if at a slower pace.

Comments
David said on October 4, 2007, 1:32 pm:

I can’t help wondering if Scott wasn’t satisfied with the new arangements? I hope he will clarify this in a future post. But until he denies it, I’m supposing that’s the case.

worzie said on October 4, 2007, 2:08 pm:

Scott, I have been a long time user of TB and personally thank you as well as the many others in the community for making TB what it is today. I wish you the best in your next adventure.

Troublesome Thunderbird News « Firefox Extension Guru’s Blog said on October 4, 2007, 9:04 pm:

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Relevance Ghost said on October 5, 2007, 3:50 am:

Scott, what is your new good job. Google?

Bob said on October 5, 2007, 7:06 am:

More proof to my statements that Thunderbird is dead. :(

David Bienvenu leaving Mozilla. Thunderbird in trouble? : Mozilla Links said on October 5, 2007, 10:46 pm:

[...] post comes just a couple of days after Scott McGregor’s own leaving message also stating he intends to continues as a volunteer module [...]

James Joseph said on April 25, 2008, 10:57 am:

All the best Scott

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