Comments on: AMO Review Queue Burndown a Huge Success

By: Rey Bango

Rey Bango — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 16:28:28 +0000

@AnAddOnDeveloper: Unfortunately we can’t do that. While it certainly would seem easy to do, an update needs to be reviewed to ensure that it doesn’t introduce code or features that would adversely affect Mozilla users. We work with add-on developers daily who have submitted updates that cause problems& it’s important that we troubleshoot as many of these situations as possible before it goes out to a Mozilla user.

We’re considering new techniques as is being discussed in this thread:

http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.amo/browse_thread/thread/d8c2bf3f9a0c1997/bfe9e6cc00b9e051

By: AnAddOnDeveloper

AnAddOnDeveloper — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 15:51:45 +0000

While this is great work and appreciated by add on developers, I think you’re making more work for yourself by having to review new versions of existing addons. I put in a new version of my add on on July 4 and it still has not been reviewed. It contains a number of bug fixes that users would benefit from. But they can’t receive it until somebody reviews it. This process prevents timely updates from appearing. What if the update was critical and needed to be distributed to users quickly? I would still have to wait months until a reviewer gets to my new version. Why not allow developers to upload a new version without a review and let the reviewers concentrate on new addons?

By: Jay Meattle

Jay Meattle — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 19:23:32 +0000

Yay!

By: Michael Hagerty

Michael Hagerty — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:43:58 +0000

Fantastic work. I truly appreciate the dedication and hard work. I am hoping the 3.x revision of CBext made it through as it is a life-saver for those of us colorblind websurfers. Too many webmasters are ignorant of the confusion their choice of colors create for us and this add-on really helps.

By: Sven Schwarz

Sven Schwarz — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 08:48:54 +0000

Yes, these guys did a great job, indeed! Sacrificing a weekend for the mozilla world. Thanks a lot, guys!!!

However, I am not sure if the whole idea of _moderating_ add-ons really scales—at least not in the way it’s done today. Maybe you should think about either making more layers (1st level moderation “usefull/not usefull and new/not new” and 2nd level moderation “look at the code” or something alike)—or: (maybe even better) think about more automatic or “anarchic” ways.

I would go for the latter alternative. I recommend to think about an “unmoderated” or at least think about a “late/post-poned moderation” strategy or something alike. Attention: This is just an idea and not a thouroughly thought-over approach! One idea could be to “substitute” the moderation somehow, for example, by using usage statistics and free votes (easy clickable votes for everyone!) _alone_ to generate _quantitative_(!) arguments for an end-user. The question is: How can we really know that a user is actually _using_ the add-on rather than letting it run without him/her knowing it?? Well, I don’t know… But, maybe it would be a good idea to let moderators vote as well—like normal users—but then counting their votes with a factor of 1000 or even greater!?

My idea might not be the perfect already, but I have the impression that the moderation of a continously increasing number of add-ons will get harder and harder every day and, thus, the moderation process as it is now just can not scale!
A _conceptional_ improvement has to be done here—tuning is not sufficient.

Anyway, thanks to all you moderators doing a great job already. I am sure, that you sacrifice a big part of you life for the good, for others! This is a noble thing! Thank you guys!

Have a nice day!
Sven

By: Kurt (supernova_00)

Kurt (supernova_00) — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 17:34:31 +0000

Thank you all very much! The whole community will appreciate this!

By: clouserw

clouserw — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:02:08 +0000

Nice work, everyone.