Changing Focus
As most people following the news around Mozilla have noticed, changes are going on all throughout Mozilla world: Thunderbird lead developers leave Mozilla Co. is probably the biggest of them.
With this announcement I see once more that things that are fun to work on change for me, too. It was great working on the improvement of Firefox gearing up towards 1.0. The community back than was really awesome. 
It was not quite that feeling going towards 1.5, even less towards 2.0. And now, 2.0 is past. 3.0 was due months ago according to the original schedule. But somehow, I cannot get really interested in it.
Firefox gained an extraordinary amount of market share, and I dare to say that I played at least a little part in this, too. So it is what I wanted it to become - a mass-market product. But that, on the other hand, is what makes it boring for me to put my effort into it. Also the community is not what it used to be. Thousands of new users have swamped the forums - it just is not the small community anymore where everybody knows everybody.
So I find myself turning again towards the project I turned from when Firefox (or Firebird actually) got interesting: SeaMonkey.
As I never stopped using it as my mail client it is not very hard to increase the usage of it again in general. But that would be boring as well. 
So I guess I will start using recent development nightlies again to be able to contribute to this nice project, and be part of a great community again.
This way, I might also be part of the efforts of keeping the MailNews-part alive - what ever happens to Thunderbird and the newly-founded MailCo.