Well I did some reading... and there is a way for "some" authors to have automatic approval... if an author requests it. I think the email address is [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] or some such. My extension is the thirty third one ever hosted by update.mozilla.org... and since I have been through most of the growing pains as alot of us here have been... I don't like being forced to beg by some Johnny come latelies for a compatibility release approval.
I refuse to do it. Someone wants to challenge my reputation... fine. Do it. But don't leave my stuff in http://purgatory.addons.mozilla.org while approving someone who begs better but has been in the queue a shorter time than mine as happened on THIS list this morning... Here is my way to avoid this... Automatic approval based on time expiration... If I submit on July 1, amo has 2 weeks to review it. (It should even publish an email of extensions reaching automatic approval to it's own Editors so they can act on unknown extensions.) Problems solved... and I can upload it and forget it... instead of seeing reviews that say great... but still no cigar on approval. Amo is not supposed to stand in the way of extensions THEY don't like or care about... (it is those users that matter most, right?) Compatibility releases are for the users that ALREADY have an extension installed... but disabled by Master Browser.... Either make amo work... in an unbiased way... or hire people to do the job. 8 million downloads in a day... with a greater and greater load of extension dependency, and it's approval process falling on volunteers is plainly not sufficient. I raised this issue once before... and someone from mozilla.org assured me mozilla had hired more people for the review process. Btw, Since I recently discovered that google cuts mozilla.org advertisement revenue for searches originating from the built in search box... I finally understand why the Googlebar got so "unloved" over there. Even still, the built in Search Box... can't touch the utility value of the Googlebar. Sorry for unloading on ya... :) John On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 1:34 PM, David Boswell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Could somebody summarize what the advantages of hosting on >> AMO are as compared to hosting at mozdev? > > I think AMO and mozdev have two very different audiences. AMO is intended to > be a site where end users download add-ons and mozdev is a place where > developers create add-ons (plus create other things such as applications, > community portals...). You can see this in what the sites offer. For > instance, AMO doesn't provide bugzilla, CVS/HG or other developer tools, but > it does offer a number of tools for developers to promote their projects. > > I think the best solution to the current frustration people are talking about > is to figure out how to get the two sites to work together. For instance, we > could have a way for mozdev project owners to easily add and update their > projects on AMO. This sort of integration has been talked about for a long > time, but it's a matter of making it happen. > > It would be great for project owners to write down how they'd like to see > mozdev and AMO integrate to make their lives easier and then we can work with > the AMO team to try to make this happen. > > David > _______________________________________________ > Project_owners mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.mozdev.org/mailman/listinfo/project_owners > _______________________________________________ Project_owners mailing list [email protected] https://www.mozdev.org/mailman/listinfo/project_owners
