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AMO Changes for 2010
Yesterday Wil Clouser wrote up a blog post detailing infrastructure changes for addons.mozilla.org in 2010. Notable changes are: Migrating from CakePHP to Django Moving from SVN to Git Continuous integration Faster deployment Processing data offline Improved documentation Take a look, it’s a good overview of the technical challenges of managing a large and complex website at an enormous scale. »
The Curious Case of the Giant Scrollbar
Recently I fixed bug 439269 (”AMO theme has unnecessary scrollbar at the bottom”) and thought it was an interesting bug for a few reasons. To summarize the issue, for no apparent reason in right-to-left languages a really long scrollbar would appear at the bottom of the window. Even though there was a scrollbar, when you scrolled... »
AMO API Fennec Support
The AMO API supports Fennec now. We pushed Bug 453517 to update services.addons.mozilla.org to work with the Fennec alpha and future Fennec versions. »
AMO Statistics and CDN Update
We will be adjusting log collection to work with our CDN tonight during a maintenance window. We can’t guarantee that developer statistics (download counts and update pings) will be 100% continuous — so please comment here or file a bug if you see anything strange. Thanks for your help! »
AMO 3.4.3 delayed until June 12th
We attempted to push the AMO 3.4.3 update last night but ran into some problems. Our initial investigation is pointing to the advanced search queries taking far longer than the previous version. The slave databases couldn’t handle the load and we had to back the update out. We’ll come up with... »
AMO 3.4.2 update scheduled for tonight (Thursday)
As previously mentioned we’re planning on updating addons.mozilla.org for the 3.4.2 changes tonight. There are 32 bugs that will be fixed with the update. Please let us know if you see any regressions or anything you’d like to see changed. The next update is scheduled for May 29th and will be mainly a... »
AMO 3.4.1 update scheduled for Thursday
The AMO team is finalizing the latest update, 3.4.1. This is a bug-fix release addressing things like double escaping, improper L10n redirects, and category cleanup. A list of all the bugs targeted for this release is available. We’ll be committing the last of the patches very shortly and the changes will be available... »
AMO 3.2.1
addons.mozilla.org was updated last week. AMO 3.2.1 was a maintenance release (26 bugs fixed) for any major issues with 3.2. Our next release will be AMO 3.4.1, the first of three dot releases for AMO 3.4, which is our next milestone to be completed before Firefox 3. »
AMO 3.2 SVN Stats
Ran statsvn on r7797 through r11622. View svn stats for AMO 3.2. All week, all the time: On the developers page, you will see how many non-mozilla contributors have helped us update translations. Overall, some rough stats: 3134 changes 288602 lines affected 24 contributors Again, thanks a ton for your help! »
Bringing Sexy Back to AMO
Yep — “sexy” and “AMO” in the same sentence. Our festively plump 3.2 target milestone added many features and refreshes that you can read about in a great post on Basil’s Bodacious blog. In the same time period we’ve also: Upgraded CakePHP’s core software from 1.18.x to 1.19.x Added support for weighted database slaves Migrated AMO to PHP5... »
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