Mozilla shutting down Persona

Mozilla has announcedthat it will be shutting down the persona.org authentication service inNovember. It has been two years since Persona was "transitionedto community ownership"; now the other shoe has dropped. "Due tolow, 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." There is aset of "shutdown guidelines" to help sites still using Persona totransition to something else. (LWN looked atPersona in 2013).