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L. David Baron  
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 More options Oct 29 2008, 3:11 pm
Newsgroups: mozilla.dev.planning
From: "L. David Baron" <dba...@dbaron.org>
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 12:11:32 -0700
Local: Wed, Oct 29 2008 3:11 pm
Subject: Re: Firefox 2 End Of Life
On Wednesday 2008-10-29 10:33 -0700, Zack Weinberg wrote:

> I think it might be worthwhile to devote some of our attention to
> popular but unmaintained extensions.  We could, for instance, have
> some sort of "adoption agency" on AMO which lists unmaintained
> extensions and encourages third-party developers to take them over.
> (The Debian package adoption procedure might be a model.)  It might
> even be worth spending internal developer effort on updating extensions
> where the fix looks to be easy.

This would only be possible for open-source extensions.  (I don't
think AMO has metadata to indicate which extensions are open-source,
so figuring out which these are can involve a bit of digging.)

-David

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