Posted in add-ons, amo, general, metrics on August 4th, 2008 5 Comments »
At the recent Firefox Plus Summit, I missed the opportunity to share my slides for the AMO session due to a power outage. Ended up using lots of hand gestures and flip charts. For those interested, I’ve uploaded them here and welcome any questions or comments.
(Also, uploaded the slides from the AMO Editor’s session).
Thanks.
Posted in amo, general on July 26th, 2008 3 Comments »
We have created a new mailing list/newsgroup/Google group to be used for discussion of AMO software development, policies and processes. To clarify the role of this list relative to some of the others out there, it’s meant for AMO development discussion, enhancement requests, policies, and so on.
Add-on development questions should go to the extensions [...]
Posted in amo, general on July 12th, 2008 6 Comments »
This minor revision to AMO includes some fixes to some vexing problems as well as a few ease-of-use features. We’ve added a “slider mechanism” to the front page so that you users iterate through five of the featured add-ons.
Some of the bugs resolved include the dreaded “version bumped add-on will not install”, empty review pages [...]
Posted in amo, general on June 14th, 2008 9 Comments »
The AMO team has been cranking hard for the past several weeks to bring you the latest batch of goodness. This week’s release includes some very cool end user and developer features, just in time for Firefox 3.
Theme Browser
Ever find it hard to see a bunch of Firefox themes at a glance? We did too [...]
Posted in amo, general on May 15th, 2008 14 Comments »
The webdev team has updated AMO with a set of key fixes in a new incremental release. This revision includes:
New list views for Newest & Recently Updated add-ons
Display of last modified date on add-on pages
A revised version history page
Ability for users to change their email address and many fixes related to the user signup process, [...]
Posted in general on April 15th, 2008 1 Comment »
Last week, Mitchell outlined a series of guiding principles for the Mozilla organization regarding web sites, data and privacy.
She proposed we use a web analytics tool from Omniture to help us understand how users interact with our web properties. After considering feedback and any commentary, we’ve updated the privacy policy to support the use of [...]
Posted in amo, general on April 11th, 2008 11 Comments »
Since the release of AMO 3.2, the AMO Team has been actively reviewing the variety of feedback from my blog, the webdev blog, madhava’s blog, the effervescent MozillaZine Forums and most noteably the reports coming into the AMO component in Bugzilla. Thank you so much for all the input and feedback. It’s refreshing to see [...]
Posted in add-ons, amo, general on March 26th, 2008 68 Comments »
The AMO team has been hard at work for the last many months on a major site redesign and is pleased to announce the availability of the new AMO site. This is a significant release and chock-full of goodies for end users and add-on authors alike. The focus has been predominantly to provide a visual [...]
Posted in general on February 8th, 2008 6 Comments »
As mozilla.com (and our 20+ other sites such as AMO, MDC, etc…) have grown to be some of the top visited properties on the planet, we have maxed out the capabilities of our current web analytics solution. We needed to shift to a world-class, scalable option that has active development and innovative reporting and analytics. [...]
Posted in general on October 23rd, 2007 Comments Off
As some of you may know, I’ve been with Mozilla for the past 1 1/2 years working on various projects. I started by establishing Mozilla Labs and kicked off a few projects there; setup a blog plus fora system. Fell into the partnership management stuff with Google and Yahoo. As I got busy with a [...]