Archive for February, 2007

The addons.mozilla.org developer control panel will be locked at 3PM PST (11PM GMT) on February 28th as a part of our plan to migrate data safely and accurately to our new site. While locked, we will be focusing on reviewing remaining add-ons in the review queue in order to get everyone’s add-ons up to date... »

As morgamic wrote on Friday, the Remora team have all had a long 9 days trying to get the new version of AMO out the door and make all its improvements available to our users. As we discovered to our chagrin, our performance testing on the stage environment did not really map well... »

Last week we had challenges in deploying the new addons.mozilla.org. We’ve done our best to keep everyone up to date through this blog. We know we are all anxious to get things going, so we wanted to make sure everyone is kept up to date with what’s going on. Scalability of our new site... »

If you’re reading this, you’ve probably noticed that AMOv3 still hasn’t taken over addons.mozilla.org. We’ve hit some unforeseen problems that have been plaguing us since our attempt to launch on Monday. Without getting into the details, we’re having some issues with the way our infrastructure is caching (or not caching) the new AMO v3... »

As I’m sure many of you are aware, today (Feb 12th) was the scheduled release day for Remora, which will bring localization, a more inclusive review system, and discussion capabilities to the addons.mozilla.org site. We had a maintenance window scheduled for today from 7-11pm Pacific, and during that period we discovered a number... »

We are excited to announce the Remora Beta update to the preview site today. This update encompasses all of the updates since the Alpha release, as well as the new Developer Control Panel. Improvements you’ll find in the Remora Developer pages: No more waiting for mirrors to sync to download your add-on – we aren’t storing... »

This is part two of a three part series. (Part 1) For the static content, we decided to use PHP’s built-in gettext functions. Let’s double check the requirements from part 1: Speed: Strings are pulled from a binary file and aggressively cached by apache. Robustness: Gettext has been a standard for years and is used in a... »

A little project named “Kubla” keeps coming up in mozilla.com meetings, and has sparked some discussions about policy, announcing projects, and general openness. I think what caused the debate to center around this particular project was my mentioning that Kubla had “met it’s first milestone on time.” I think people interpreted this... »

The preview site was refreshed today with another set of updates: Due to public outcry, the right-hand menu is now on the left Condensed browse lists and search results, using javascript to expand sections Added the much anticipated “sandbox” feature (a more complete description below) Added RSS feeds to pages including per category feeds, search results, and more Migrated... »