On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:02:51 +0200, Onno Ekker wrote: > On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 5:59 PM, Eric H. Jung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> One of my add-ons is trusted. I neither begged nor even asked for it to be >> trusted. Indeed, I didn't even know what a "trusted addon" was. One day, I >> went to upload a new version of this addon to AMO and was presented with the >> option to publish the new version to the sandbox or to the public. It'd >> become trusted. I still don't really know how it happened :) > Now that is very strange... > Why do they trust an add-on and not a user? > They trust you to not put malware, remote java, memory leaks, etc in one > add-on, but think you might put it in one of your other add-ons? > Or do the other add-ons have co-authors they don't trust? > And then you were lucky enough to see it in time, otherwise you might have > got stuck with an extension in the sandbox, due to bug 432121 (filed by you > :-)) I think one of the reasons Flasblock is trusted is that it has been on AMO since v1 (or rather even before they started giving AMO version numbers) and was sort of grandfathered in. And has (probably) nothing to do with one of my co-authors being a MoCo employee. Phil -- Philip Chee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://flashblock.mozdev.org/ http://xsidebar.mozdev.org Guard us from the she-wolf and the wolf, and guard us from the thief, oh Night, and so be good for us to pass. [ ]Everyone hates me because I'm paranoid. * TagZilla 0.066.6 _______________________________________________ Project_owners mailing list [email protected] https://www.mozdev.org/mailman/listinfo/project_owners
