The new addons.mozilla.org (AMO) is up and running through its first peak load time without major issues. We will continue to monitor site performance today to verify that our performance adjustments indeed solved our load issues. What did we do? Moved public files back to releases.mozilla.org, so those mirrors can do what they are good... »
Short version: All add-ons that were public in AMO prior to Remora’s launch this weekend should now be publicly available on AMO again. We will be in contact with all add-on authors to provide more detail and clarity on what we’ll be doing going forward to help make the AMO and add-ons experience... »
Though Justin’s first post about the sandbox was several months ago, there is still a fair bit of confusion about the whats and wherefores of the new system. I’ll try to give a relatively concise description of the goals and current operation of the sandbox system here, but please keep in mind that... »
AMO was updated on Thursday, March 22nd around 8pm. Overnight, we watched the web infrastructure to ensure that AMO could withstand peak load times, but this morning near peak time cluster load levels became too high and we were forced to rollback yet again to prevent affecting other critical applications. Good news: Our database bottleneck is... »
Due to a delay in the pending Firefox release, we will be pushing AMO deployment to the evening of Thursday, March 22nd. »
AMO deployment has been moved to the evening of Thursday, March 22nd. The next Firefox release conflicts with our planned AMO deployment date and it is not optimal to make infra changes during a release. We have had some excellent feedback reported, and we’ve made good use of our incubation period for the new... »
Pending submissions have all been processed. Thank you all for your submissions, and thanks to all our reviewers who helped us get our queue from more than 385 add-ons to 0 in the last few days. We’ve reached our goal, and will be working on migrating the entire add-ons database today. We know... »
