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This I know.
Yet their "minimal support" still beats what Microcosm has today. We are 2 and, whilst Persona may not have achieved the original goals Mozilla have, they are providing support (and have been very fast to react whenever we've needed them to) and are actually still improving the product.
Yes we need a long-term plan. Yes we're likely to have to build our own.
But the very basic fact remains: If we spent months building an identity provider, Microcosm would already be dead as a company and product. It would have been the wrong decision by a country mile.
If our resources remain tight, then our future path may be a self-hosted instance of Persona, with the email bridges disabled (for our use-case that would suit us better anyway). But if we have the resources we would build our own identity provider... it would look very much like Persona, but we'd obviously be better placed to maintain it and to integrate it more deeply and invisibly.
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Mozilla is no longer developing Persona, has moved staff away from the project and while it is still providing minimal support, this is for the existing hosted service (downtime, critical bugs and the like). Mozilla has promised not do decommission Persona this year.
I know people who work for Mozilla. Persona is a dead duck. Now is a good time to be planning alternatives for the near future.