IMO, unless and until MoFo can hire someone for PSM or some other company decides to staff PSM development (as various companies now staff NSS developement), the PSM situation will likely not change. PSM just isn't sexy enough to attract developers.
mozilla.org staff (through Gerv Markham, who is a member of staff but not a Mozilla Foundation employee) has already issued a call for people interested in working on PSM:
http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/gerv/archives/007555.html
I agree with Nelson that it would be helpful if the MF or someone else would actually pay someone to do PSM development and related work (e.g., on NSS stuff of specific interest to Mozilla). Gerv's post references two people, Chris Hoffmann and Dan Veditz, who are in fact MF employees and who would be good people to contact about this topic; their email addresses are in the blog post.
For people who do contact the MF, I suggest that you provide specific examples of work you'd like to see done in PSM, and why, and also provide pointers to any people you know who might be willing to undertake paid PSM development either on a full-time or contract basis.
This is really a question of supply and demand: What's the level of demand for PSM improvements, and what's the supply of people able and willing to do PSM development (including paid development)? If the demand is high enough, and there are people willing to do the work, then the MF can judge whether it's worth paying them to do it.
Frank
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