Eric, that would be just fantastic!!
Yes it is QuickFolders I was talking about. The Portuguese, Japanese and Russian users would be indebted to you forever - not to mention the SeaMonkey community ;) If you could review the latest version 1.6.3 at https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addons/versions/3254 that would be really cool! You see what I mean about the mentoring system. ;-) thanks Axel > Axel, are you talking about QuickFolders? I can review it for you > since I've done that before and am already familiar with it. Let me > know. I wouldn't be able to get to it until this weekend, however. > > Eric > > On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 3:51 PM, Axel <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Yep. Now just wait 3 months (I'm not exaggerating) for the update to be >> approved and it will appear on the main listing. >> >> Yes, Malte. >> >> I am afraid you're right. I think there should be either a 2-tier system for >> people who release often (I release on average once a month) or a mentoring >> system, where reviewers who have already reviewed a version get the option >> of reviewing new releases of their favorite plugin again - wouldn't that >> save a lot of testing time? For us extension developers I am sure it would >> be possible to make a case for how important a particular bugfix / feature >> was... I have 3 new translators waiting for their hard work to go online, a >> catastrophic bug in Linux (complete TB crash) that was fixed weeks ago, and >> support for a new application (SeaMonkey) - I got the call for a compatible >> version from the SeaMonkey guys 2 or 3 weeks ago. I bet the new users would >> have loved to download the plugin, but they can not see it because the >> current version (it is the fourth release that is waiting for review) is >> hidden in the "old versions" section. >> >> I also think that unreviewed new versions of already reviewed extensions >> should be featured more prominently on the AMO plugin pages, I tend to get >> bug reports for stuff that I have fixed long ago and the ordinary users >> don't know where to look. Seriously considering hosting elsewhere, if it >> wasn't yet another leraning curve and possibly hosting costs...1500 >> downloads per week kind of adds up over time... >> >> why shouldn't it possible to contact a reviewer directly if he already knows >> your plugin? It would surely make the review process more efficient. The >> other thing that annoys me a little is that there are a plethora of newbie >> plugins out there that pretty much don't add much value to the host apps, >> and they are clogging up the whole system and also obscure the good ones - >> it gets harder to find decent plugins for the "background noise" of >> imitators etc. I don't know a solution against this, because everybody >> should be able to contribute but the ones that get most attention from their >> developers should also get the best chance to be recognized? Naw, I don't >> know... as I said I haven't a solution. >> >> Ever thought for yourself: I know the perfect plugin for my purpose is out >> there, I just have to find it? >> >> 2009/11/18 Michael J Gruber [email protected] >> >>> Only when I click on "show previous versions" (or something like that, >>> this is back-translated from l10n) the sandboxed version is shown as >>> experimental. I guess this is considered normal behavior. >>> >> Yep. Now just wait 3 months (I'm not exaggerating) for the update to be >> approved and it will appear on the main listing. >> >> ________________________________ >> _______________________________________________ Project_owners mailing list [email protected] https://www.mozdev.org/mailman/listinfo/project_owners
