‘Mozilla Links’ Archives
all pre-existing add-ons restored (made public)
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 more polished and accessible for all our users. Not quite as short version: I made a mistake in choosing how to roll out the sandbox and increased quality standards for AMO, in concert with the Remora software update, and we're now correcting it. We still believe ... Read More »
Reviewing, the Sandbox, and “missing” add-ons
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 we are rolling out the first version here, and not the last. We have lengthy and detailed discussions about the feedback provided by people even in its pre-release state, and we are grateful for the suggestions and information that people have contributed already. The goals ... Read More »
Remora update and plan
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 into real-world results, and the result was unacceptable load on the app cluster -- unacceptable to the extent that pretty much everything that was sharing that database was killed by it, in fact. With the assistance of IT (and especially of oremj, who wrote and operated a ... Read More »
AMO v3 (Remora) Delay
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 pages. Rather than risk a slow, (and thus, frustrating) user experience at launch, we've decided to iron out the problems with the servers before deployment. That means the new site still isn't live, and won't be until we can get things fixed. I assure you ... Read More »
AMO v3 (Remora) launch delayed 24 hours
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 of issues related to differences between our test environment and the production one, as well as some late-breaking bugs found by our testers. While we were able to resolve all but one of those issues to our satisfaction -- and that of our test suite -- we ... Read More »
Localizing AMO3 (part 1: overview and static)
As morgamic mentioned, we're very excited about finally being able to provide a great add-ons experience in more than just English. (Don't get me wrong, I love English, but there are other great languages as well.) There are three major parts to localization in the "Remora" code base: Localization of static web content. These are the sorts of things that you would find hard-coded into markup in the current site, and includes the text of links to different sections of the site, error messages, and help text. We're using gettext for this, and performing the translation should hopefully ... Read More »
