Michael Vincent van Rantwijk, MultiZilla wrote: > 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. > That's fine, but many Mozdev project owners do use AMO (as do the vast majority of addons users), and I think it makes the most sense for Mozdev to focus on providing the best tools for developers and development communities to develop addons and other Mozilla-related software, leaving AMO to focus on the best tools for developers to distribute addons and users to find them.
> 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. > I agree. "You can become a reviewer" is no excuse for problems with the review process on AMO, nor would it even be beneficial for developers to become reviewers to speed their addons through the process (since it encourages conflicts of interest). I'll note that AMO knows that review is a problem, and they tried to address it with the recent update, adding a "sandbox" in which addons are accessible before being reviewed. I think they missed the mark, although the sandbox is a good idea, because they didn't lower the bar to contributing reviews, so it's still just as hard to get an addon to go public, even if savvy users can find it in the sandbox. Nevertheless, I think they'll eventually get it right, finding the optimal balance between protecting users and promoting addons and harnessing the distributed intelligence of the userbase itself to do so. -myk _______________________________________________ Project_owners mailing list [email protected] https://www.mozdev.org/mailman/listinfo/project_owners
