can falter. Additionally, as the Mozilla note mentioned, contributions that aren't part of the mainline will likely bitrot. (I don't have a solution to this; just a cautionary note.)
Well, the main solution is to create an ecosystem where people get hired to work (full-time) on providing such extensions (or additions to the mainline) to MediaWiki. Only this setup can provide some continuity.
I'm working on getting projects setup to do exactly that. (I mentioned this in a private note.) But for that to work the MediaWiki community needs be accepting of (corporate) contributions (assuming they follow the licenses and community spirit).
Are there any examples or even defined processes (on meta?) that I could look up?
Thanks, Dirk