{"id":2563,"date":"2011-05-11T20:05:14","date_gmt":"2011-05-12T03:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/addons\/?p=2563"},"modified":"2011-05-11T20:24:32","modified_gmt":"2011-05-12T03:24:32","slug":"add-ons-review-update-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/addons\/2011\/05\/11\/add-ons-review-update-30\/","title":{"rendered":"Add-ons Review Update \u2013 Week of 2011\/05\/12"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I post these updates every 2 weeks to inform add-on developers about   the status of the review queues and any other important stuff going on   in the add-ons world.<\/p>\n<h3>Summary<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Nominations for full review at the moment are being processed slower   than usual. The   new   review system required hundreds of add-on   developers to   renominate their   add-ons, which has placed a large   workload on the   editor team. Nominations are currently taking several   weeks (~8) to  review.<\/li>\n<li>Most updates are being reviewed within a week. An avalanche of   updates were submitted following the final Firefox 4 release, so we have   been spending extra time keeping updates in line.<\/li>\n<li>Most preliminary reviews are being reviewed within 4 weeks.<\/li>\n<li>We posted a <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/addons\/2011\/05\/04\/join-us-help-reviewing-add-ons\/\">call for new reviewers<\/a> on our blog recently and many new reviewers have already joined our team. If you&#8217;re interested, please read on <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/AMO:Editors\/Applying\">how to apply<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>The Review Queues<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>These stats are taken from the <a href=\"https:\/\/forums.mozilla.org\/addons\/viewtopic.php?f=21&amp;t=3051\">last queue report<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>58 new nominations that week. 439 nominations in the queue awaiting             review.<\/li>\n<li>123 new updates that week. 118 updates in the queue awaiting review.<\/li>\n<li>102 new preliminary review submissions that week. 351 in the queue awaiting review.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Firefox 4<\/h3>\n<p>Firefox 4 is out! If your add-on is already compatible, you should   update your  maxVersion to 4.0.*  to cover all future 4.0 releases. Most   of the necessary  documentation to  upgrade your add-on for Firefox 4   is readily  available:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/developer.mozilla.org\/en\/Firefox_4_for_developers\">Firefox 4 for developers at MDC<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/addons\/2010\/11\/11\/making-add-on-compatible-firefox-4\/\">Making your add-on compatible with Firefox 4<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/addons\/2011\/02\/16\/toolbar-buttons-firefox-4-revisited\/\">Toolbar buttons and icons for Firefox 4<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/forums.mozilla.org\/addons\/viewtopic.php?f=7&amp;t=1437\">Firefox 4 Compatibility discussion<\/a> in the Add-ons Forum. This is the best place to post any feedback and bugs related to Firefox 4 and add-on development.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Firefox 5<\/h3>\n<p>Yeah, it&#8217;s time to begin thinking about Firefox 5. The development  cycle for future versions of Firefox will be very fast, moving changes  between 4 different update channels, as <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.mozilla.org\/devnews\/index.php\/2011\/04\/07\/new-development-channels-and-repositories-for-rapid-releases\/\">explained here<\/a>. There will be a new major Firefox release roughly every 6 weeks.<\/p>\n<p>On our side, we will automatically upgrade the compatibility of your  add-on to Firefox 5 unless we have reasons to believe the add-on is  incompatible. Since major releases are produced faster, it also means  they&#8217;re milder in terms of breaking changes. The discussion about this  new add-on compatibility process is happening <a href=\"http:\/\/groups.google.com\/group\/mozilla.dev.planning\/browse_thread\/thread\/99e372313db48cda#\">in this newsgroup<\/a>. If you want to get more details or have any feedback, please dive in.<\/p>\n<p>The Firefox repo has already branched into the Aurora track, meaning  that no major changes will happen until final release. Here are the documents you should follow to know what&#8217;s going on:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/developer.mozilla.org\/en\/Firefox_5_for_developers\">Firefox 5 for developers<\/a>. As far as I can see, there is only one change that is worth noticing: <em>navigator.language<\/em> no longer corresponds to the UI language, but to the value of the <em>Accept-Language<\/em> header. If you want to get the locale of the browser UI, you should use the <em>general.useragent.locale<\/em> preference instead.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Features\">Features wiki<\/a>.  This link is useful for long-term planning. It&#8217;s a feature development  plan for the Firefox team (and others), and it includes several  prioritized lists of what is being planned for future versions of  Firefox. It&#8217;s a new approach to planning, so it&#8217;s bound to change  rapidly.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Notes for Developers<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Our add-on performance initiative <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/addons\/2011\/04\/01\/improving-add-on-performance\/\">was launched recently<\/a>,  beginning with a page that lists add-ons that have been identified as  slow by our Talos testing system and backed up by real world usage data  and manual tests. Some developers have responded negatively to the  release, pointing out a number of <a href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=648784\">bugs in the testing system<\/a> as well as problems in the wording of the slow add-ons page. We take  these bugs seriously and thank these developers for filing bugs and  being responsive. Many of them have been fixed already. We have also <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/addons\/2011\/04\/12\/update-on-add-on-performance-testing\/\">scaled down<\/a> the slow add-ons list until we correct the issues that we consider critical to move forward.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/AMO:Editors\/EditorGuide\">The AMO  Editor Guide<\/a>.                   This is a comprehensive guide to    the      work            performed by AMO Editors. If you want to have a clear idea of how  we  test add-ons, or you&#8217;re interested in joining us, this is a good  place  to begin.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/AMO:Editors\/InfoAuthors\">Useful             Information for Add-on Authors<\/a>. How to improve review times  for         your    add-on, information about the review process, etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I post these updates every 2 weeks to inform add-on developers about the status of the review queues and any other important stuff going on in the add-ons world. 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