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China News » Blog Archive » ChinaStock????AMO?? — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 09:56:15 +0000

[...] Your add-on must have some reviews either on AMO or elsewhere on the web. See http://shawnwilsher.com/archives/108 for some ideas on how to do [...]

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 13:06:59 +0000

I’ve submitted my extension for public nomination over 3 months ago:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/10187

It’s getting a bit sandy here ;-)

I got 6 *great* reviews (real reviews, not friends-family :) and close to 100 downloads per week…

I wonder if someone can review the nomination and help me get out of the sandbox (or provide a smart tip on how to expedite the process)?

-Alex

By: Akshay Sura

Akshay Sura — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 13:36:08 +0000

We published our Add-on and got 4 reviews while is was in sandbox. This morning I got an email saying we need more reviews, does any one know how many reviews you need?

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/11036

By: MyTaH: call for reviews « Osmarender Frontend: my GSoC adventure

MyTaH: call for reviews « Osmarender Frontend: my GSoC adventure — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 16:06:47 +0000

[...] any other Firefox extension, please take some time to write a little review. It’s needed by Mozilla policies before publishing it in their [...]

By: Shawn Wilsher

Shawn Wilsher — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 14:04:07 +0000

@Jo-Anne

Note: AMO was recently redesigned, so I have no idea how accurate those instructions are anymore.

By: Jo-Anne

Jo-Anne — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 13:52:37 +0000

I followed the instructions on registering etc, but when I got to the following step: “Check “Show Sandbox” in Profile – click “Save”” I was completely confused aa that option is not visible to me at all. Is there a reason for this??

By: Al

Al — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 15:03:46 +0000

I am still really confused about how to get something out of the sandbox. It seems that if I was a large corporation and had lots of support I could get all my buddies to post reviews. If not, I am simply out of luck. What a strange process indeed!

By: Brett

Brett — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 23:08:55 +0000

While it seems a little annoying at first, I appreciate the fact that this stimulates collaboration and which can lead to better extensions overall.

But to facilitate this more for us reclusive folks, how about setting up a forum at mozillazine for a scratch-my-back-I’ll-scratch-yours deal? (obviously not for bogus endorsements, and this would be even less likely probably for fellow Mozilla developers, especially when they’re on the record…)

Maybe each submitter could suggest a level of difficulty for their extension in order to get someone creating an extension of comparable difficulty to review theirs.

Or, even better, maybe the add-ons site itself could allow extension submitters to have an option to join a pool of sorts automatically…

I really feel that if there is no formal mechanism for this, then you will be losing out and frustrating developers needlessly.

thanks,
Brett

By: Shawn Wilsher

Shawn Wilsher — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 06:00:54 +0000

@Eyal

We do consider them, but not necessarily as an alternative. It really is up t the individual editor as to what they consider sufficient.

By: Eyal Rozenberg

Eyal Rozenberg — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 08:15:51 +0000

I find that my new extension is getting mostly bug reports from overall-satisfied users, who just want their specific issue handled (e.g. “report dupe message counts in the dialog window”), and e-mails from people saying “I like your extension, how do I do X? Why doesn’t it do Y?” – but I can’t use these as external reviews. Perhaps AMO editors should consider evaluating the activity of an extension’s issue tracking mechanism as a possible alternative (or augmentation) of AMO sandbox reviews.