Nice job with the extension gallery! It looks nice and I think it'll shape up into a great place to find and publish extensions. I released a few upgrades to my extension a couple weeks ago and have some comments based on my experience... I hope they can be taken into consideration to make the gallery even more effective.
1. There needs to be a way to contact people who comment on your listing. Most people report bugs by leaving a comment and not going to the support link. Developers need a way to contact them, other than by posting more comments- users don't go back to them very often. 2. Updates are very hard to test if you didn't upload your own private key when first releasing the extension. I didn't upload one, so I have no way to build the extension with the live extension ID except by publishing the extension to everyone. I also can't download old versions of the extension from the dashboard. Together, this makes it difficult to test upgrade and migration code. I need to maintain my own list of old extension versions that are built with a separate testing key, hoping that they reflect what's released. I think this is an important issue... we should either be able to download the private key, or better yet, we should be able to install the new extension from the dashboard before publishing it, along with historical versions. 3. The release work flow is not very clear. This builds off the last item a bit. My understanding of it is that after I upload a new version of the extension, people can't actually download it until I click publish, but part of the main page updates before hitting publish (like the version being displayed... but not the version being downloaded). Right now the work flow seems centered around designing the listing page, but we should think of it as an overall release work flow. 4. There should be a way to roll-back or revert a particular version. This item combined with (3), (4) and the auto-updating makes for a very stressful upgrade process. If there's a bug that we didn't catch, which is more likely because of the difficulty in testing, people immediately start upgrading to it. Testing and fixing this could take a while one again because of (3), so sometimes its nice to be able to pull a version. I'm scared to hit unpublish- I don't know what it does (probably because the workflow is unclear)( other than pull the entire listing. 5. It would be nice to see more statistics for both the ratings and users in the developer console. For example, how many people rated it 0,1,2,3..., or how ratings and users change over time. I hope these comments are useful. Happy new year, --Jon -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Chromium-extensions" group. To post to this group, send email to chromium-extensi...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to chromium-extensions+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-extensions?hl=en.
