Since we overhauled our review process earlier this year, we have had three review queues: full review nominations, full review updates and preliminary reviews (nominations and updates in a single queue). With this we struck a difficult but important balance: ensuring that all add-ons listed on AMO have at least been checked for potential security problems, and at the same time giving developers the freedom to list their experimental, niche or unfinished add-ons as quickly as possible.
A team of hard-working volunteers spend their spare time reviewing all add-ons in these queues, and their efforts can be seen in the updates I post in this blog. Since not all add-on reviews are equal, we have some features in our review tools that allow reviewers to identify the items in the queues that can be done quickly. The Fast Track queue is the newest of these features.
Add-ons created with the Add-ons SDK are generally very easy to review, since for the most part they have little code and use predetermined and tested APIs provided by the SDK. The Fast Track queue now lists all SDK add-ons pending review that don’t break out of their sandbox (that is, that don’t use require(“chrome”)). Reviewers can now be more efficient, easily taking care of quick reviews that don’t require much attention.
We’re looking into adding other review classes into the Fast Track queue in the future. This is a valuable tool that enables us to better prioritize our work and reduce review waiting times for all add-on developers.
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