In a Mozilla wiki post, David Ascher – CEO of Mozilla Messaging – quietly announces that the Raindrop project will be reseting. While there has yet to be any blog posts on the subject, it’s not at all a surprise.

Raindrop has suffered from a very slow adoption rate and a stagnant community, being mostly run by Mozilla Messaging employees, unlike other Mozilla Labs projects. A good portion of this is attributed to the amount of work it takes to setup a Raindrop installation as well as the “spread out” data model Raindrop uses.

As part of the reset, Raindrop will attempt to address these issues as well as the CouchDB scaling issues that Raindrop suffers from.

Given the speed which the Mozilla Messaging team works, it may be a while before a usable, beta-quality version of Raindrop is available.

To follow the Raindrop community better, check out their Community page on the Mozilla wiki.