Over the past year, there’s been a growing debate around how add-on developers can receive compensation for the work they put into their add-ons. That’s why we’re looking to launch a contributions pilot by the end of June. This pilot will allow participating developers to request voluntary contributions from users in a way that helps… Continue reading
Big thanks to all of you who completed our developer survey last month. We got over 60 responses and we appreciate the thoughtful and detailed responses. Our top 5 requests were: The biggest request involves the review queue and the time it takes to get out of the sandbox. (24 requests) There is a real… Continue reading
A friendly reminder- we’ll be talking today at 12:30 PM PST on air.mozilla.com (Firefox 3.1 required). For those of you who like to read ahead, here are the slides: AMO 2009 View more presentations or upload your own. You’ll also be able to ask questions in #airmozilla on irc.mozilla.org, or via the air.mozilla.com website. Hope… Continue reading
Excellent question. Join us for an AMO brown bag session hosted on http://air.mozilla.com at 12:30PM PST on Thursday, January 29. Justin Scott and I will be covering the following: Vision Mission and Objectives Quarterly Roadmap Bandwagon (our new social system for managing and sharing collections of add-ons) You’ll be able to ask questions during the… Continue reading
At the recent Firefox Plus Summit, I missed the opportunity to share my slides for the AMO session due to a power outage. Ended up using lots of hand gestures and flip charts. For those interested, I’ve uploaded them here and welcome any questions or comments. (Also, uploaded the slides from the AMO Editor’s session).… Continue reading
This is a first in a series of blog posts that will try to articulate some background about add-ons in order to explore potential product directions for the Mozilla add-ons site (AMO). First some facts and figures to help set the context and scale for Firefox add-ons. There are more than 180 million active monthly… Continue reading
Earlier this year, the addons.mozilla.org (AMO) team launched a long-awaited, major rework of the AMO site, called Project Remora. With that behind us, we have been working diligently on AMO v3.2. The goal is to: Simplify site interactions and provide a cleaner look Based on traffic to the site, about 50% of site visits involve… Continue reading
