With last night’s update to AMO, the new tools I’ve been blogging about are now available to try out. On the en-US Developer Tools index, you should now see an invitation to try out the new tools, which will take you to the new “Developer Dashboard” where all the links will point to new tools. Using the old index will continue using the old tools until the next update when we intend to make the new tools the default and only tools.

Please remember that any changes you make will actually take effect, so if you’re looking for an environment to play around with the new tools without harm or try out uploading a new add-on, just use our preview site, which uses an older snapshot of the database.

If you’d like to report any bugs or feedback, please add it to this wiki page or file a bug in Bugzilla.

For details on the specific new tools, check out my previous posts:

• Edit Add-on: Manage Add-on Authors
• Edit Add-on: Edit Add-on Descriptions
• Edit Add-on: Manage Add-on Categories
• Edit Add-on: Edit Add-on Properties
• Manage Versions and Files
• Manage Previews
• Change Status
• Add-on Uploads

Thanks!

The last tool of the AMO Developer Tools revamp I’ll be posting about is the uploader used when submitting a new add-on, updating an existing add-on, and adding a file to an existing version. Previous versions of this tool have involved a complicated multi-step process of uploading the file, editing add-on information, editing version information, and finally editing translations. In the revamp, all uploads will have just one step: uploading the file.

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The revamp of the Developer Tools area of AMO has a brand new tool called the Status Changer. This tool provides an interface to see what the status of your add-on currently is, what that status means, and how to get to a higher status if applicable.

The interface has two main areas: one shows the status level of the add-on: whether it’s Incomplete, In Sandbox, Public, etc. The other area shows whether the add-on is currently marked as active or inactive. The content of the page varies depending on what status an add-on is currently in, but I’ll highlight a few common states below.

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It’s been about 4 months since I posted about the status of the AMO Developer Tools Revamp. Later this week, the beta versions of these tools currently available in production AMO will be upgraded and 3 new tools will be added. I’ll post more details about that on Friday, but wanted to highlight the features of the 3 new tools.

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