Douglas E. Warner wrote: > Mozdev.org has released a number of new features to allow projects to > securely > install their applications and allow users to find information about projects > easier. > > Each project has an overview page that prominently displays links to all of a > projects tools as well as highlighting each of a project's extensions and > their latest releases. Since this page is served from a secure site the > extensions linked from this page make use of InstallTrigger to verify that > the file is downloaded correctly by comparing the file's hash. > > Each project's overview page is at a URL with the following format: > https://www.mozdev.org/projects/overview/PROJECT/ > ex: https://www.mozdev.org/projects/overview/www/ > > In order to have your extensions linked from this page, you'll need to make > use of our new file management tool to mark files as released and verify the > hash for the file (documentation [2]): > https://www.mozdev.org/profile/file_management.html > > Mozdev will be linking to the new project overview page from the main > www.mozdev.org site in various locations such as the active project list and > top 50 page.
But what if I need/want to add additional installation tip/information? > We hope this new feature brings both project owners and users a new level of > comfort knowing the extensions are installed properly and enables users to > find project information more quickly. Comfort is when things work and make things easier, but that is not the case currently. It might work, great, but I don't want people to install from any location other than out installation page so I will not use it/discourage people to use it. -- Michael Vincent van Rantwijk - MultiZilla Project Team Lead - XUL Boot Camp Staff member (ActiveState Training Partner) - iPhone Application Developer _______________________________________________ Project_owners mailing list [email protected] https://www.mozdev.org/mailman/listinfo/project_owners
