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Jetpack Project: weekly update for January 24th, 2012

Project News We’re releasing SDK 1.5b2 this afternoon, including updated localization documentation. If you’re interested in addon localization progress, you should read over Zbigniew Braniecki’s insightful feedback post on our html localization proposal. Yesterday I posted a note about SDK 1.4 and the Addon Builder Quick Stats Total open bugs: 240 Bugs created last week:… Continue reading

Categories: builder, developers, jetpack, sdk

Add-ons Update – Week of 2012/01/19

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. The Review Queues Most nominations for full review are taking less than 10 days to review. Most updates are being reviewed within 5 days. Most preliminary reviews are… Continue reading

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Categories: compatibility, developers, documentation

Default Compatibility is Coming and Your Help is Needed!

All add-ons will be made compatible by default in the upcoming Firefox 10 release, so it’s crunch time for testing them in Beta, Aurora, and Nightly. With default compatibility, you can expect to see less of the incompatible add-ons dialog, and more of your add-ons should just work. If you are a Firefox developer, support… Continue reading

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Categories: compatibility, developers, end users, releases

Issue Corrected with Add-on Usage Stats

After receiving numerous reports from add-on developers about slight dips in their usage statistics, we discovered an issue yesterday with the log configuration of several servers. This issue has been corrected and statistics should return to normal beginning with today’s report. Unfortunately, active daily user statistics since December 16, 2011 are approximately 33% lower than… Continue reading

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Categories: developers, general

Add-ons Update – Week of 2011/12/28

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. The Review Queues Nominations for full review at the moment are being processed slower than usual. Most nominations are taking less than 4 weeks to review. Most updates… Continue reading

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Categories: compatibility, developers, documentation

AMO Outage

addons.mozilla.org is currently experiencing a network outage (starting around 10am Pacific). Mozilla IT is actively working to restore service, and you can view the current status here. Thanks for your patience.

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Categories: developers, end users

AMO network issues

addons.mozilla.org and several other Mozilla services, including the Mozilla Labs Apps Developer Preview, are currently experiencing performance and availability issues. Mozilla IT is actively working to restore service, and you can view the current status here. Thanks for your patience.

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Categories: developers, end users