Project News I blogged last week about the 2013 Jetpack Roadmap; for this first quarter the Jetpack team is hard at work on a set of goals that will result in shipping the core apis in Firefox, quite likely in Firefox 21. If you want to follow that work there are a few different places… Continue reading
The reviewer incentive program has been running for a few months now, and a few reviewers are already on Level 5! Since this is a new program, we’ve been monitoring the point accumulation and listening to feedback, and have decided to make a few changes. Point Distributions To spread out the points more evenly between… Continue reading
Personas has officially joined the Themes family on AMO! The renaming is finally complete, and we’d like to thank you for your patience. People looking for ways to change the look of their Firefox no longer have to worry about the difference between a “background” theme and a “complete” theme. Simply click over to the… Continue reading
As explained on this post in the Mozilla Security Blog, all versions of the Java plugin are vulnerable to a security bug that could compromise users’ systems. Because of this, all versions of the Java plugin will be blocked in Firefox 17 and above. This is a click-to-play block, meaning that the plugin will be… Continue reading
I post these updates every 3 weeks to inform add-on developers about the status of the review queues, add-on compatibility, and other happenings in the add-ons world. In case you missed it, give 2012 in Add-on Reviews a look. It’s a good overview of what the review team did last year and how it compares… Continue reading
Project News It’s a new year! And with that comes a new SDK product road-map for 2013! The blog post is here, and if you have any feedback we’d love to hear about it on this Google groups thread. Quick Stats Total open bugs: 436 Bugs created last week: 17 Bugs fixed last week: 10… Continue reading
During December I worked with the rest of the SDK team as well as other stakeholders to develop a product road-map for the SDK for the next year. This road-map planning is critical as 2013 promises to be a very eventful year for both the Jetpack team and the SDK, and I think a very,… Continue reading
As we begin 2013, I thought it’d be a good idea to look back and see what we accomplished last year. Overall it was another good year for the review team, full of challenges and successes. This year we had three major events: New Year’s Challenge, where you cleared the review queues for the first… Continue reading
