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Philip Chee  
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 More options Oct 30 2008, 12:25 am
Newsgroups: mozilla.dev.planning
From: Philip Chee <philip.c...@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 12:25:26 +0800
Local: Thurs, Oct 30 2008 12:25 am
Subject: Re: Firefox 2 End Of Life

On Wed, 29 Oct 2008 10:33:37 -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.

Mozdev recently set up a formal takeover procedure for orphaned projects
(after an orphaned project turned out not to be orphaned after all, just
pinning for the fjords). Perhaps you could talk to David Boswell or some
of the other board memebers about details.

Phil

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