Justin Scott (fligtar)
Wednesday was the first Firefox release since AMO 3.0 (Remora) launched in late March. It’s expected that traffic to Mozilla websites will increase following a release, but it’s usually in the range of 1.5 times normal traffic. Thursday, traffic to … Continue reading
Mike Morgan
So we decided to use SVN because it’s cooler and more modern. It’s not so bad, especially for webapps. We like the atomic commits, webdav, yadda yadda. You know why it’s better than CVS we aren’t going to regurgitate that … Continue reading
Wil Clouser
This is the last part of a three part series. (Part 1) (Part 2) The basic premise of our strategy for dynamic localization was to replace actual strings in the database with ints, which were foreign keys into a `translations` … Continue reading
Wil Clouser
Since the site launched a couple weeks ago, the AMO crew has been working diligently to polish off some of the rough edges and fix the bugs that have been reported. We’ve pushed an update to the site tonight that: … Continue reading
Mike Morgan
The new addons.mozilla.org (AMO) is up and running through its first peak load time without major issues. We will continue to monitor site performance today to verify that our performance adjustments indeed solved our load issues. What did we do? … Continue reading
shaver
Short version: All add-ons that were public in AMO prior to Remora’s launch this weekend should now be publicly available on AMO again. We will be in contact with all add-on authors to provide more detail and clarity on what … Continue reading
shaver
Though Justin’s first post about the sandbox was several months ago, there is still a fair bit of confusion about the whats and wherefores of the new system. I’ll try to give a relatively concise description of the goals and … Continue reading
Mike Morgan
AMO was updated on Thursday, March 22nd around 8pm. Overnight, we watched the web infrastructure to ensure that AMO could withstand peak load times, but this morning near peak time cluster load levels became too high and we were forced … Continue reading
Mike Morgan
Due to a delay in the pending Firefox release, we will be pushing AMO deployment to the evening of Thursday, March 22nd.
Mike Morgan
AMO deployment has been moved to the evening of Thursday, March 22nd. The next Firefox release conflicts with our planned AMO deployment date and it is not optimal to make infra changes during a release. We have had some excellent … Continue reading