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Add-on developers: It’s that time again

deb — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 16:25:16 +0000

Justin Scott writes, “With the release of the first beta of Firefox 3.1 comes everyone’s favorite release-time festivity: extension compatibility updates! If you’re an extension developer using a maxVersion of 3.0.* or less, please test your extension before declaring 3.1b1 compatibility. Some of the changes for extension developers are listed [at the Mozilla Developer Center]. 3.1.b1 is an allowed version on AMO, but 3.1.* will not be added until closer to final release. Keep in mind that you can always look at the Developer Statistics Dashboard to see how many of your users are on 3.1 betas and may be marked as incompatible/disabled.” For more information you should check out Justin’s blog post.

Add-on developers survey: raw results

deb — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 13:43:38 +0000

The team responsible for the Addons.mozilla.org (AMO) site recently conducted a survey of the add-on developer community. A total of 265 people responded to the survey, and the initial results have been published. “The general summary is that most respondents were individual developers with 2 or more years of add-on development experience. Naturally they felt comfortable with JavaScript and XUL. They primarily built add-ons for Firefox and hosted them on their own.” The full results have been published, but they are simply the raw results. The team will be applying some correlation analysis to draw out more interesting findings and conclusions. To view and discuss these initial results, see the post on Basil’s weblog.

AMO Developer tools ready for testing

deb — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 15:18:32 +0000

Justin Scott has been writing about the development of new tools for addons.mozilla.org, and has now announced that those tools are ready for testing. “On the en-US Developer Tools index, you should now see an invitation to try out the new tools, which will take you to the new ‘Developer Dashboard’. Using the old index will continue using the old tools until the next update when we intend to make the tools the default and only tools.” There’s also a test site available, where you can play around with the new tools without causing changes on the live AMO site. For details about the various new tools you should read Justin’s previous posts, all of which are linked in his blog post.

Latest about:addons newsletter

deb — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 15:55:11 +0000

The Mozilla Add-ons team has published the latest issue of the monthly about:addons newsletter, bringing you the latest and greatest news and information from the world of Mozilla Add-on development. You can read the full newsletter at the Mozilla Developer Center and sign up to have future issues sent directly to your mailbox using the handy subscription form.

Firefox add-ons developer survey

deb — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 15:16:57 +0000

The addons.mozilla.org (AMO) team is looking for help as they work on improving the add-on development experience. “If you’ve developed or tried to develop an add-on for Firefox (or other applications), we’d like your feedback to know what we can do to improve that experience through documentation, tools, and features. Please take a few minutes to complete our survey. Your responses will be anonymous, and every response will be read. We’ll summarize the findings in a few weeks.” Add-ons are a vital part of the Firefox ecosystem, so any help you can provide here would be hugely beneficial to the project as a whole — Add-ons Developer Survey.

Becoming an AMO editor

deb — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:23:44 +0000

Mozilla Add-ons (AMO) is one of Mozilla’s most popular and important sites, and our Add-ons Editors are critical to maintaining a great experience for millions of add-on users. Justin Scott of the AMO team has posted an overview of what Editors do and how to get involved with with that aspect of Mozilla over at Justin’s weblog.