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 We released SDK 1.13 today! Irakli wrote an interesting post ‘Isolate.js via AST analysis‘ that discusses a novel solution to the problem of passing JS code across compartment and even process or system boundaries. You should read Will’s post on changes to the SDK’s require syntax that we released with SDK 1.12, as… Continue reading
In version 1.12 we changed the structure of the SDK, removing the idea of “packages” and relocating all the SDK’s modules under the “lib” directory. This changed, and greatly simplified, the require() syntax used to import modules. This change would break backwards compatibility, so we implemented a shim to ensure that most common usages of… Continue reading
Project News Much thanks to Mozillian Marc Chevrier for not only reporting but providing a patch for bug 829651. I love it when developers report into bugs with patches! Quick Stats Total open bugs: 436 Bugs created last week: 29 Bugs fixed last week: 18 Total SDK-based Add-ons on AMO: 1,421 Open pull requests on… Continue reading
Thanks to the tireless efforts of the localization community, Firefox has been translated to an impressive array of languages. You can find the list of available translations on the Firefox in your Language page. If a user wants to alternate between more than one language, it is possible to install a language pack add-on to… Continue reading
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
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
