Please welcome Todd Whiteman as the new owner of PyXPCOM.

PyXPCOM is a bridge between python and Mozilla XPCOM which allows app authors to write chrome script and XPCOM components in python. For a long time its source code has been in the main Mozilla codebase (CVS and then mozilla-central) in extensions/python. It is used by some fairly large projects such as the Komodo editor as well as the Sugar project.

Unfortunately, nobody ever created a bugzilla component for tracking PyXPCOM, and PyXPCOM bugs would languish in “Core: General” or “Core: XPCOM” unnoticed. As I was going through old bugs in XPCOM, I noticed the languishing PyXPCOM bugs. I asked Mark Hammond, the original PyXPCOM author and maintainer, whether he still had time to maintain the module. He did not, but he nominated Todd Whiteman (ActiveState) as his replacement.

In order to make PyXPCOM maintenance easier, Todd and I arranged for the following changes to PyXPCOM:

• The PyXPCOM code now lives at http://hg.mozilla.org/pyxpcom. It has its own configure script which builds against the XULRunner SDK. It is no longer necessary to build all of XULRunner or Firefox in order to build PyXPCOM. The PyXPCOM code in mozilla-central has been removed.
• A new bug component: PyXPCOM bugs now have their own bugzilla component in the “Other Applications” product:
  • View all open PyXPCOM bugs
  • File new PyXPCOM bug

Todd has nominated the following peers for PyXPCOM:

• Mark Hammond
• Tomeu Vizoso
• Shane Caraveo
• Trent Mick

Patches to PyXPCOM should be reviewed by Todd or one of the module peers. (Note that not all the peers appear on the module ownership page because of technical issues with the tool generating that page.)

I’m happy that PyXPCOM has active ownership and can continue to grow and serve the needs of its community.

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