Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] Date of purge of XUL extensions at Addons site?

2018-02-14 Thread Jorge Villalobos
Agree that addons-dev is the better place for this discussion. I'll just add that you can find the AMO source code in these repos: https://github.com/mozilla/addons-server https://github.com/mozilla/addons-frontend You can manage with just the first one to stand up a site that looks and works lik

Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] Date of purge of XUL extensions at Addons site?

2018-02-13 Thread The Wanderer
On 2018-02-13 at 21:40, James Andrewartha wrote: > On 14/02/18 10:25, Paul Kosinski wrote: > >> Does anyone agree with me that such a "scorched earth" policy is >> unreasonable? > > Absolutely. If Mozilla doesn't change their policy, I'll see if we > can archive all of addons.mozilla.org for th

Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] Date of purge of XUL extensions at Addons site?

2018-02-13 Thread James Andrewartha
On 14/02/18 10:25, Paul Kosinski wrote: > Does anyone agree with me that such a "scorched earth" policy is > unreasonable? Absolutely. If Mozilla doesn't change their policy, I'll see if we can archive all of addons.mozilla.org for the Internet Archive. Thanks, -- James Andrewartha Network & Pr

Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] Date of purge of XUL extensions at Addons site?

2018-02-13 Thread Paul Kosinski
Does anyone agree with me that such a "scorched earth" policy is unreasonable? It ought to be pretty trivial to clone the entire directory tree of add-ons as of the cutoff date, put it somewhere accessible, and then do whatever is planned for add-ons in the future. I'm not saying Mozilla should "

Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] Date of purge of XUL extensions at Addons site?

2018-02-12 Thread Jorge Villalobos
We're not going to maintain an add-ons archive for unsupported versions of Firefox, no. Some community members have shown interest in doing something like that and we have pointed them to our API docs which would enable them to do that. If anyone else wants to collaborate in such a project, the dev

Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] Date of purge of XUL extensions at Addons site?

2018-02-12 Thread Paul Kosinski
Is Mozilla actually going to leave all users of ESR 52 out in the cold at the "end" of the ESR 52 cycle? I *hope* that the non-WE extensions will still be available in an archive area, like older versions of Firefox are at "ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/". (Even Microsoft hasn't totally dit

Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] Date of purge of XUL extensions at Addons site?

2018-02-12 Thread Jorge Villalobos
I can confirm that's still our plan. Jorge Villalobos AMO Product Manager On 2/12/18 4:16 AM, Philipp Madersbacher wrote: > Hi, where have you heard that? According to > https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2017/10/03/legacy-add-on-support-on-firefox-esr/ > AMO will host legacy addons as long as the 5

Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] Date of purge of XUL extensions at Addons site?

2018-02-12 Thread Philipp Madersbacher
Hi, where have you heard that? According to https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2017/10/03/legacy-add-on-support-on-firefox-esr/ AMO will host legacy addons as long as the 52esr cycle lasts... Philipp 2018-02-12 0:27 GMT+01:00 Jo Brown : > Fx 52.x ESR is officially supported by Mozilla through Augus

[Mozilla Enterprise] Date of purge of XUL extensions at Addons site?

2018-02-11 Thread Jo Brown
Fx 52.x ESR is officially supported by Mozilla through August 28. I expected traditional extensions at AMO to be AVAILABLE through that date. Yet, I am hearing that Mozilla will purge all non WE extensions as early as MAY! Can anyone provide more information? Thanks. ___