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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... »
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... »
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... »
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... »
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... »
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... »
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