It was suggested that I cross-post this from mozilla.dev.planning onto my blog. This is in reply to a thread entitled "Proposal: Move Thunderbird and SeaMonkey to mozilla-central" about (essentially) merging comm-central back into mozilla-central. There have been many technical concerns raised in the thread (that I'm not going to rehash here). What I'm more interested in is the lack of community feeling there. As Nicholas Nethercote said in that thread:

"I am surprised [...] by how heartless the discussion has been."

I should note that I did have some help editing this down from my original post. Turns out I tend to write inflammatory statements that don't help get me point across. Who knew? Anyway, thanks to all of you who helped me out there!

My full post is below (with a few links added and plaintext formatting converted to HTML formatting):

http://clokep.blogspot.com/2014/04/community-and-volunteers.html