Comments on: Life of an Editor on AMO

By: dirtmind

dirtmind — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 14:57:06 +0000

Just curious, do you know how many amo addon editors there are?

One thing that would be really cool on the amo site is an estimation of when your addon would be reviewed. So knowing no. of editors and the average review rate would be useful :)

I was going to apply to be an editor, until one of my extensions got a public review and was kept in the sandbox. The reasons given were very clear (and very correct) and linked to a deeper explanation and solution. Since I’d thought my addon was ready and it wasn’t clearly I’m not ready to be an editor! You guys do a great job, thanks :)

By: Reviews on AMO

Reviews on AMO — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 06:18:19 +0000

[...] last post keeps getting comments, and I’m seeing this brought up on the amo-editors mailing list a lot. [...]

By: Shawn Wilsher

Shawn Wilsher — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 05:53:55 +0000

@Rob

I’m writing up a post about it now that will be out tonight/tomorrow that should hopefully explain it in more detail.

By: Interclue Archive » Try the latest version from addons.mozilla.org

Interclue Archive » Try the latest version from addons.mozilla.org — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 16:04:59 +0000

[...] pundits on our news page failed to satisfy the user review requirement, because they’re really more interested in people saying things like “I’ve been using it for a couple days on Firefox 2.0.0.4 [...]

By: Sethop’s Interesting Times » Blog Archive » Starting to Get Things Done again.

Wed, 20 Jun 2007 14:33:24 +0000

[...] wagon! Been trying to drum up a few reviews from the Mozillazine crowd to get us out of the AMO Sandbox, that’s also a priority. On the whole they seem to really like it but not many of them have [...]

By: Rob

Rob — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 11:05:09 +0000

Shawn,

Thanks for replying to Tim and Avery — it helps a bit, but I’m still confused.

I’m in the same boat as Tim and Avery (a sandboxed extension with no reviews). Do I understand that the sandbox is the only source of reviewers? If so, what control does the author have over obtaining reviews? If not, what other review sources to you accept?

Please: a bit more detail on getting through this part of the process.

thanks

Rob

By: Shawn Wilsher

Shawn Wilsher — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 22:21:39 +0000

@Tim

Anybody can sign up to be a sandbox user. It generally takes some time to get reviews. This isn’t supposed to be a lightning fast process. :)

@Avery

I really don’t think it’s that nobody is logging into the sandbox, I’m sorry to say.

By: Avery

Avery — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 21:17:30 +0000

Where are these reviews supposed to come from? Should I tell my friends to review the thing? I don’t think they would be very trustworthy, in that case. But I can’t simply spam my extension, either.

I posted the sandbox link to MozillaZine and waited a week, but apparently nobody is interested in logging into the sandbox. I was hoping addons.m.o would be a central repository for extensions (not to mention the added security) but this seems like a major barrier.

By: Tim

Tim — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 14:53:10 +0000

Hi Shawn,

Who exactly are the users? once it’s on the sandbox is it accessible to people for download? My add-on is the Scribd Slurper, for Scribd.com.

It’s been on the sandbox for a coule of days but no one seems to have looked at it yet. Please let me know if I need to do something extra to have people look at it.

Thanks,
Tim

By: Shawn Wilsher

Shawn Wilsher — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 18:33:19 +0000

@Brett

Just being based on an existing theme tells us editors nothing useful. Based on could mean that it looks like the other themes, or uses the same back-end. Without any indication, we editors really can’t use that information as a factor.

In your e-mails, you indicated that it was the same back-end code. That information may have changed the situation, but at the time your comments to editors/reviewers did not indicate this.