Loading ...Scott McGregor, Thunderbird Lead Engineer leaves Mozilla
On 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.
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October 4th, 2007 at 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.
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October 4th, 2007 at 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.
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October 5th, 2007 at 3:50 am
Scott, what is your new good job. Google?
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October 5th, 2007 at 7:06 am
More proof to my statements that Thunderbird is dead. :(
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April 25th, 2008 at 10:57 am
All the best Scott
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