Two of the add-ons I use are going to break when Firefox 57 / Thunderbird 57 is released, and it appears that their maintainers have abandoned them: their support web sites no longer work, their support email addresses bounce, and there haven’t been any new releases in a long time.
I am happy to take over maintenance of these add-ons if that is possible, so that I can keep them working for myself and their other users.
Is this possible? If so, how?
We can’t hand over listings without the owner’s permission. Your best bet is to fork the add-on and create a new listing.
You can also tell us which add-ons you’re referring to and we can try contacting the developers for you. Sometimes they have different email addresses set up for internal contact.
@jorgev Could you please try contacting the author of FiltaQuilla? I wrote him to rkent [bflm] mesquilla.com on 29 August, and still no reply. I’ve already prepared a release compatible with TB 60: https://github.com/peci1/filtaquilla/releases/tag/1.4.0 . It’d be a pity to let the addon die (I can imagine a lot of people just consider addons defunct and do not seek for their “successors”). Thank you
I don’t have other ways to contact him. He seems to be active on GitHub, so he’s still around. He might not be spending a lot of time on his add-on projects.
Okay, thanks, I found a different email on github, so let’s see if that
one works.