How does Mozilla solve the third-party development of extensions to
manage the addition and updates in addons.mozilla.org ?

Is it really necessary to be a single website (the official) with the
only extensions repository? Similar to app.packages, how about the PPA
model apart of main/supported repositories?



El 15/05/15 a les 08:45, Gabriel Rossetti ha escrit:
> 
> On 15 May 2015 08:23, "drago01" <drag...@gmail.com
> <mailto:drag...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 8:15 AM, Gabriel Rossetti
>> <rossetti.gabr...@gmail.com <mailto:rossetti.gabr...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>> >
>> > On 15 May 2015 03:32, "Jasper St. Pierre" <jstpie...@mecheye.net
> <mailto:jstpie...@mecheye.net>> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> I would be more than happy to hand off maintenance of the extensions
>> >> website to somebody else, get them off the ground with the code,
> and answer
>> >> any questions about the system. I, personally, do not want to
> contribute to
>> >> extensions infrastructure any more. I would be more than happy to
> explain my
>> >> reasons.
>> >
>> > I believe from the start that the biggest issue is the lack of a
> user API.
>> > If there had been a remotely stable API the extension review process
> [..]
>>
>> The extension review process is mostly for checking whether the
>> extension is malicious or not ... reviewers are free to check other
>> things like code quality, obvious bugs etc. but that depends on the
>> reviewer.
> 
> Yes, I know that, but it is easier to follow code that uses know API
> than monkey patching.
> 
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