So...

I stopped development on the Persona extension a while ago when Mozilla dropped official support for it, but with persona.org shutting down, I am considering deprecating the extension entirely, especially considering the work that would be required porting it to AuthManager.

But I figured I'd give a sort of last call. Is there anybody here that knows if the extension is being used (despite being marked as experimental) and thinks I should still maintain some sort of support for it?

--  Tyler Romeo https://parent5446.nyc 0x405D34A7C86B42DF

From: Ryan Kelly rfkelly@mozilla.com Reply: dev-identity@lists.mozilla.org dev-identity@lists.mozilla.org Date: January 11, 2016 at 20:09:31 To: dev-identity@lists.mozilla.org dev-identity@lists.mozilla.org, persona-notices@mozilla.org persona-notices@mozilla.org Subject:  Shutting down persona.org in November 2016

Hi Everyone,

When the Mozilla Identity team transitioned Persona to community ownership, we committed resources to operational and security support throughout 2014 [1], and renewed that commitment for 2015 [2]. Due to low, declining usage, we are reallocating the project’s dedicated, ongoing resources and will shut down the persona.org services that we run.

Persona.org and related domains will be taken offline on November 30th, 2016.

If you run a website that relies on Persona, you will need to implement an alternative login solution for your users. We have assembled a wiki page with additional information and guidelines for migration [3], but here are the important things you need to know:

Between now and November 30th, 2016, Mozilla will continue to support the Persona service at a maintenance level:

* Security issues will be resolved in a timely manner and the services will be kept online, but we do not expect to develop or deploy any new features.

* Support will continue to be available on the dev-identity mailing list [4] and in the #services-dev IRC channel [5].

* All websites that rely on persona.org will need to migrate to another means of authentication during this period.

Beginning on November 30th, 2016, the Persona service hosted by Mozilla will be decommissioned:

* All services hosted on the persona.org domain will be shut down.

* Mozilla will retain control of the persona.org domain and will not transfer it to a third party.

* Since the privacy of user data is of utmost importance to Mozilla, we will destroy all user data stored on the persona.org servers, and will not transfer it to third parties.

We intentionally designed Persona to expose email addresses rather than opaque identifiers, which should ease the transition to other systems that provide verified email addresses. You can find guidelines on alternative login solutions on the wiki [3] and we will continue to update them over the coming year. We strongly encourage affected teams to openly discuss and blog about their migrations on the dev-identity mailing list so that others can learn from their experience.

Thank you for your support and involvement with Persona. If you have any questions, please post them to the dev-identity mailing list.

Ryan

[1] http://identity.mozilla.com/post/78873831485/transitioning-persona-to-commun... [2] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.dev.identity/rPIm7GxOeNU [3] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Identity/Persona_Shutdown_Guidelines_for_Reliers [4] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-identity [5] http://irc.mozilla.org/#services-dev _______________________________________________ Persona-notices mailing list Persona-notices@mozilla.org https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/persona-notices