{"id":8083,"date":"2017-03-09T12:28:10","date_gmt":"2017-03-09T20:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/addons\/?p=8083"},"modified":"2017-03-09T12:28:10","modified_gmt":"2017-03-09T20:28:10","slug":"office-hours-support-transitioning-porting-webextensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/addons\/2017\/03\/09\/office-hours-support-transitioning-porting-webextensions\/","title":{"rendered":"Office Hours Support for Transitioning and Porting to WebExtensions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To help facilitate more mutual support among developers migrating and porting to <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.mozilla.org\/en-US\/Add-ons\/WebExtensions\">WebExtensions<\/a>, we asked the add-on developer community to sign up for blocks of time when they can be available to assist each other. This week, we published the <a href=\"https:\/\/atsay.github.io\/WebExtensions_office_hours\">schedule<\/a>, which shows you the days and hours (in your time zone) when people are available to answer questions in <a href=\"https:\/\/client00.chat.mibbit.com\/?url=irc%3A%2F%2Firc.mozilla.org%2Fqa\">IRC<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/discourse.mozilla-community.org\/c\/add-ons\/development\">add-on forum<\/a>. Each volunteer helper has indicated their <a href=\"https:\/\/atsay.github.io\/WebExtensions_office_hours\/#specialties\">specialties<\/a>, so you can find the people who are most likely able to help you.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;d like to get help asynchronously, you can join and email the webextensions-support [at] mozilla [dot] org <a href=\"https:\/\/mail.mozilla.org\/listinfo\/webextensions-support\" target=\"_blank\">mailing list<\/a>, where more people are on hand to answer questions.<\/p>\n<p>If you have any knowledge in or expertise with add-ons, please sign up to help! Just go to the <a href=\"https:\/\/public.etherpad-mozilla.org\/p\/WebExtensions_office_hours\">etherpad<\/a> and add your IRC handle, times you\u2019re available, and your specialties, and we&#8217;ll add you to the schedule. Or, join the <a href=\"https:\/\/mail.mozilla.org\/listinfo\/webextensions-support\" target=\"_blank\">mailing list<\/a> to help out at any time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To help facilitate more mutual support among developers migrating and porting to WebExtensions, we asked the add-on developer community to sign up for blocks of time when they can be &hellip; <a class=\"go\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/addons\/2017\/03\/09\/office-hours-support-transitioning-porting-webextensions\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":377,"featured_media":7560,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,278886],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Office Hours Support for Transitioning and Porting to WebExtensions - Mozilla Add-ons Community Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/addons\/2017\/03\/09\/office-hours-support-transitioning-porting-webextensions\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Amy Tsay\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/addons\/2017\/03\/09\/office-hours-support-transitioning-porting-webextensions\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/addons\/2017\/03\/09\/office-hours-support-transitioning-porting-webextensions\/\",\"name\":\"Office Hours Support for Transitioning and Porting to WebExtensions - 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