They have already "handed it off to the community" so they can focus on other things. It won't be getting more funding or effort from Mozilla.

edit: I just reread and realised you said "reconsider" and not "consider". Implying you already knew this, sorry.

Here is the blog post in case anyone missed it anyway: http://identity.mozilla.com/post/78873831485/transitioning-p...

and on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7362613

> It won't be getting more funding or effort from Mozilla.

Correction: There aren't any more employees being paid to develop Persona. Mozilla is still paying for the infrastructure, and the community (which includes paid employees like myself who want to work on Persona on the side) is still working on it. I actually got a pull request merged just yesterday (my first!). There's also ops/IT staff who will be helping to deploy and respond to service disruptions.

<hope>We could very well find that after Firefox Accounts is up and running that focusing employees back on Persona is the right thing to do.</hope>

Brendan was very involved with the decision to mothball Persona, so you can be pretty sure this won't change that decision.