posts tagged with “amo editors”

Get Involved with Add-ons

I recently posted about the current status of the addons.mozilla.org review queues. When I started writing this post, there were 241 pending updates to already-public add-ons and 479 nominated add-ons waiting review to become public for the first time. 24 hours later, the queue is now 169 pending updates and 467 nominated add-ons, a difference of over 100 versions processed (taking into account the new versions submitted today). Great job, editors!

I’d like to explain a bit about what Add-on Editors do so that developers waiting desperately for an email from AMO know what happens during this process, and also to encourage people to consider becoming an editor. If you’re thinking about getting involved more directly with the Mozilla community or are an existing contributor looking for a new way to help out, reviewing add-ons is a great way to do that. You might even meet new people, learn something, discover an add-on that you start using every day, or occasionally have a tiny bit of fun while doing it.

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AMO Add-on Review Status

The AMO editors have been hard at work, reviewing 255 add-on updates and submissions in the 2 weeks before Firefox 3’s launch, and 238 updates/submissions between launch day (Tuesday) and Sunday.

There are currently 228 updates in the queue and 373 new nominated add-ons. There are normally about 10 new add-ons submitted to AMO every day, but since the release there have been 20-40 every day. Similarly, there are normally about 60-70 updates to existing add-ons every day, but since the launch there have been 100 – 150 every day.

Below is a graph of submission and update rates since 2004, hitting a peak of 235 updates on the day after release and 42 new submissions 2 days after release. You can also see a zoomed-in version of the graph. Astute observers will also notice a large increase in submissions in November 2006, when Firefox 2 was released.

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