{"id":178,"date":"2007-08-15T13:16:14","date_gmt":"2007-08-15T13:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mozillacalendar2.wordpress.com\/2007\/08\/15\/the_future_of_lightning_after\/"},"modified":"2007-08-15T13:16:14","modified_gmt":"2007-08-15T13:16:14","slug":"the_future_of_lightning_after","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/calendar\/2007\/08\/the_future_of_lightning_after\/","title":{"rendered":"The future of Lightning&#8230; after the Thunderbird announcement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About two weeks ago, Mitchell Baker sent out her <a href=\"http:\/\/weblogs.mozillazine.org\/mitchell\/archives\/2007\/07\/email_futures.html\">call for action for Mozilla Thunderbird<\/a>, announcing that the Mozilla Corporation wants to move its focus exclusively to Mozilla Firefox. In later posts Mitchell posted further details about the initial announcement (<a href=\"http:\/\/weblogs.mozillazine.org\/mitchell\/archives\/2007\/07\/thunderbird_discussion.html\">Link 1<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/weblogs.mozillazine.org\/mitchell\/archives\/2007\/07\/thunderbird_google_question.html\">Link 2<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/weblogs.mozillazine.org\/mitchell\/archives\/2007\/07\/thunderbird_and_the_mozilla_mi.html\">Link 3<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/weblogs.mozillazine.org\/mitchell\/archives\/2007\/07\/thunderbird_features_discussio.html\">Link 4<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/weblogs.mozillazine.org\/mitchell\/archives\/2007\/07\/thunderbird_why_change_things.html\">Link 5<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/weblogs.mozillazine.org\/mitchell\/archives\/2007\/07\/thundrbird_differences.html\">Link 6<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/weblogs.mozillazine.org\/mitchell\/archives\/2007\/07\/thunderbird_revenue.html\">Link 7<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/weblogs.mozillazine.org\/mitchell\/archives\/2007\/08\/thunderbird_update_brief.html\">Link 8<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Since Thunderbird is the base application for our main application\/extension (Lightning), a lot of people have asked us, whether we would continue to work on Lightning as a Thunderbird extension.<\/p>\n<p>The answer is <strong>YES<\/strong>! We&#8217;d like to state publicly that we will continue to work on our two products Lightning and Sunbird in the foreseeable future and that we still envision great things for Lightning and Thunderbird. We are currently hard at work for our next release 0.7 (coming this fall) and are starting the planning work for the following releases 0.9 and 1.0.<\/p>\n<p>If you have any questions regarding this, feel free to post them as a comment and we&#8217;ll try to directly answer them there or answer them all in a follow-up post in this blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About two weeks ago, Mitchell Baker sent out her call for action for Mozilla Thunderbird, announcing that the Mozilla Corporation wants to move its focus exclusively to Mozilla Firefox. In later posts Mitchell posted further details about the initial announcement (Link 1, Link 2, Link 3, Link 4, Link 5, Link 6, Link 7, Link [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":426,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/426"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}