Project News Slides from my FSOSS presentation are online. Alexandre Poirot blogged about proposed localization features for the SDK, based on JSON and Gnu gettext conventions. The SDK hack Day in Mountain View on November 19th is coming up fast! Register here. Quick Stats Total open bugs: 210 Bugs created this week: 20 Bugs fixed… Continue reading
Earlier today, AMO’s new extension category landing and browse pages were pushed live, bringing more of the site into our new style. As with our other new pages, we aimed for a clean, simple design without extra clutter. One area we focused on improving with these pages is add-on compatibility with your browser: making it… Continue reading
Events The London and SFO-area Add-on SDK workshop planning is moving full steam ahead: Blog posts announcing the London workshop. We’re close to booking a venue for the bay-area workshop, should have news later this week! Weekly Dev Meeting notes Add-on SDK 1.1 RC1 builds will be rolled this afternoon, any remaining fixes must be… Continue reading
Earlier today we launched the first part of a revamp of our email notifications system that offers more fine-grained control over the notifications you receive, as well as one-click unsubscribe. You can read more about this revamp on the WebDev Blog. Add-on developers will likely notice this new system very soon, as they’ll begin receiving… Continue reading
We’re very excited to begin rolling out a new design for our homepage and add-on details page to a small number of visitors to addons.mozilla.org very soon. These new designs bring some of our most popular pages in line with the new Mozilla styling and provide a cleaner, simpler look for exploring the thousands of… Continue reading
The Jetpack team is pleased to announce the release of Add-on SDK 1.0b4. This version, the fourth in the series of beta releases of Mozilla’s downloadable software development kit for easily building Firefox add-ons, includes new APIs, enhancements to modules, plenty of new features, and a bunch of bug fixes. Notable improvements include: Brand new… Continue reading
Every time a big Firefox release is upon us, we’re reminded of a longstanding and frustrating hassle on AMO: there’s only one latest version. Add-on versions and files are more complex than meets the eye, and in combination with our need for aggressive caching, AMO has only ever been able to return the very latest… Continue reading
The Jetpack team is pleased to announce the release of Add-on SDK 1.0b3. This version, the third in the series of beta releases of Mozilla’s downloadable software development kit for building Firefox add-ons, includes better documentation, new features, and a bunch of bug fixes. Notable improvements include: The documentation has been reorganized, restyled, and expanded… Continue reading
Almost exactly a year ago, I wrote a long post detailing our add-on review process. It has been a few weeks since the launch of the new developer tools, and that warrants a new post explaining how the new review process works. I’ll try to keep it short this time. By the way, this post… Continue reading
We’re happy to announce that the revamped Developer Tools area of addons.mozilla.org has just launched, bringing in many bugfixes and improvements, as well as support for our new review process. Highlights An entirely new design provides easier access to commonly used features, such as updating compatibility information, and much better interactions for add-on submission and… Continue reading
