{"id":2188,"date":"2011-01-13T20:08:40","date_gmt":"2011-01-14T04:08:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/addons\/?p=2188"},"modified":"2011-01-13T20:08:40","modified_gmt":"2011-01-14T04:08:40","slug":"new-developer-tools-review-process-are-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/addons\/2011\/01\/13\/new-developer-tools-review-process-are-live\/","title":{"rendered":"New Developer Tools &amp; review process are live!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re happy to announce that the revamped <a href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/developers\">Developer Tools<\/a> area of addons.mozilla.org has just launched, bringing in many bugfixes and improvements, as well as support for our new review process.<\/p>\n<h3>Highlights<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>An entirely new design provides easier access to commonly used features, such as updating compatibility information, and much better interactions for add-on submission and management.<\/li>\n<li>The new review process ensures all add-ons hosted on AMO are safe, while still allowing developers to distribute their experimental work and receive feedback.<\/li>\n<li>Our add-on validator is much smarter than before and will provide helpful analysis to developers and editors.<\/li>\n<li>Add-ons now have slugs, which make URLs easier to read. (<a href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/addon\/adblock-plus\">example<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/addons\/files\/2011\/01\/statusversions.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/addons\/files\/2011\/01\/statusversions-thumb.png\" alt=\"Screenshot of Manage Status and Versions page\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>New Review Process<\/h3>\n<p>We want the thousands of add-ons available in our gallery to be safe for users to install, so early last year we set out to find a solution to the thousands of unreviewed add-ons living in our &#8220;sandbox&#8221;. We wanted add-ons to be reviewed in a way that would also allow developers to upload and distribute their work quickly in order to receive feedback from our community of add-on fans always looking to try new things.<\/p>\n<p>After several <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.fligtar.com\/2010\/03\/22\/sandboxing-the-sandbox-tldr\/\">proposals<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/forums.mozilla.org\/addons\/viewtopic.php?f=19&#038;t=820\">discussions<\/a> with add-on developers, we came up with the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/addons\/2010\/05\/21\/a-different-review-process-proposal\/\">concept of preliminary review<\/a>, which is a lighter review that only checks for security issues. These reviews are much faster than full reviews and may still contain functional bugs and policy violations, but should be safe to use. Developers will now be able to choose a review process at submission, and while they&#8217;re waiting for review, can blog or share the direct link to their add-on.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone interested in learning more about the new review process should read our updated <a href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/developers\/docs\/policies\/reviews\">Review Process Policy<\/a> page. Authors of add-ons currently in the sandbox will receive an email next week with instructions on how to continue hosting their add-on in our gallery. The only change authors of &#8220;public&#8221; add-ons should see is that they are now called &#8220;fully reviewed&#8221; instead.<\/p>\n<p>We encourage all add-on authors to <a href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/developers\/addons\">try out the new Developer Tools<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/forums.mozilla.org\/addons\/viewforum.php?f=20\">give us feedback<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re happy to announce that the revamped Developer Tools area of addons.mozilla.org has just launched, bringing in many bugfixes and improvements, as well as support for our new review process. &hellip; <a class=\"go\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/addons\/2011\/01\/13\/new-developer-tools-review-process-are-live\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,227],"tags":[278873,278875],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>New Developer Tools &amp; review process are live! 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