Robert Kaiser wrote: > Hi, > >> Robert Kaiser wrote: "mozdev is hard to navigate for novices" >> and "every useful extension for end users should be on AMO." >> later he adds: "mozdev is not well-navigatable by normal users" >> so I guess we all here are wasting out time on mozdev.org > > Then you're just guessing wrong. mozdev.org is great and is a very > welcome and good place for development of all kinds of things (that's > where the "dev" in the name comes from, right?) but it does not aim to > be and isn't an add-ons download entry point for all users. AMO on the > other hand is just that, and it's quite good at it. If the review times > there discourage you, then what you should do is help that situation by > taking part in the review process (and it has improved much over the > last months, from what I hear). > > What you criticized when I made those statements was that > www.seamonkey-project.org does not link mozdev on the front page, but > has AMO in its menus. I think mozdev would make a good addition to the > community page there, but it isn't and won't ever be (as it's not > designed to be that) the prime entry point for users downloading > extensions/add-ons. > > Once, again, nobody is wasting his time by using the great > infrastructure of mozdev.org for development, project websites, > documentation and whatever else. But everyone creating add-ons, here or > elsewhere, and not uploading them to AMO is missing good chances to get > users of his work, as AMO is and will be in the foreseeable future the > prime entry point for add-on downloads for Mozilla applications, at > least for Firefox, Thunderbird, SeaMonkey and Sunbird. > > Robert Kaiser
I'm glad that you took the time to reply here, but let me tell you that some people don't, and never will use AMO, for whatever reason, and that is just a fact. Having said that, I will personally never become part of this so called review process simply because I don't have the time for it. I however already help other people, in a different way. Clear, you don't see halve of it, but that doesn't mean I don't do more work than people can see in newsgroups. Maybe the problem is that MultiZilla is this old already, but we will keep using mozdev.org, andyes... that might be our problem (as you said in the other newsgroup) but it was after all where everything started, and not for MultiZilla alone... but Firefox as well (just do some homework). -- Michael Vincent van Rantwijk - MultiZilla Project Team Lead - XUL Boot Camp Staff member (ActiveState Training Partner) - iPhone Application Developer _______________________________________________ Project_owners mailing list [email protected] https://www.mozdev.org/mailman/listinfo/project_owners
