Open Source? Looking For New Maintainer?

[Peter Gerdes]

I was super pleased to see this extension because I've been looking for something to do this for forever.  Thanks for writing it!!  

But as the code exists currently it lacks some major functionality I need and it fails to save comments on any number of sites (I couldn't get it to work on richarddawkins.net).  I've been thinking about writing my own extension for this purpose for a long time and it would be great to use your code as a starting point but I didn't see any license header so I'm reluctant to just start hacking.  

Anyway if you haven't touched this since 2015 is there any chance you could open source the extension?  If so could you either push the history to Github or (if you aren't using an SCM) just email me a zip of the development directory?  At least if that directory contains anything not in the folder chrome downloads.

I don't have that much free time but the basic fixes I'd like to make pretty soon are  (no promises though)

• Fix the system for deciding when to save a comment.  Ideally, there would be a user editable set of filters that match against common blogging platforms (using the HTTP or HTML HEADERS  so you can identify any Wordpress install etc..).
• Improve comment display so you can usefully search and sort comments.
• I'd add a setting that enables tracking on identified webmail pages so it's off by default.  I don't think that's what the user expects nor is it privacy friendly.
• Add some kind of on-page indication that a given field will be saved (i.e. little icon in lower right) so users know that this info is being saved.  Also that icon should bring up the config options

Longer term goals

• Further, improve the comment detection and display pages so it can group comments by discussion or even recognize threading.
• Save metadata/info embedded in HTML attributes that allow identification of thread, in-reply-to etc.. on many blogging platforms
• Add functionality that allows the extension to connect to pages hosting prior comments and look for new replies etc...
• (Easy) Integrate basic form fill of Name, email, URL for blog comments.
• Enable both a default global value for these fills and a per-site override.

I'm both emailing you and posting this in the forum since I'm not sure which is the best way to reach you and to see if anyone with more experience than me wants to offer to be the maintainer instead.  I don't have a huge amount of time so if anyone else wants to offer to be a maintainer I'd be happy just to contribute code but I'm willing to be the maintainer if no one else is offering since a busy maintainer is better than nothing.

Best,

Peter Gerdes