What is up with UMO?
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What is up with UMO?
Let me start by saying that development work on UMO has restarted. 11 bugs have been fixed in CVS.
UMO is a closely watched project by many people. We certainly don't want you downloading things that will harm your computer. To that end, we are establishing a weekly meeting to discuss issues, performing a security audit, and putting together a process for testing things.
UMO also gets slashdotted when a release comes out, not to mention our regular heavy load of people seeking updates.
I hope that the resources that run ExtensionRoom and ExtensionMirror will come over to help with UMO. Indeed, we'll be looking for a lot of help with testing out extensions and themes.
So what does the future hold?
We're moving to an internal search engine instead of google
We're fixing those annoying typos
We also plan to add Nvu to our site.
After that:
A code rewrite, using templates, PEAR:DB, and probably some other nifty stuff.
So things are definitely happening behind the scenes. In order for us to make a great site, we have to slow down and make sure everything is covered.
UMO is a closely watched project by many people. We certainly don't want you downloading things that will harm your computer. To that end, we are establishing a weekly meeting to discuss issues, performing a security audit, and putting together a process for testing things.
UMO also gets slashdotted when a release comes out, not to mention our regular heavy load of people seeking updates.
I hope that the resources that run ExtensionRoom and ExtensionMirror will come over to help with UMO. Indeed, we'll be looking for a lot of help with testing out extensions and themes.
So what does the future hold?
We're moving to an internal search engine instead of google
We're fixing those annoying typos
We also plan to add Nvu to our site.
After that:
A code rewrite, using templates, PEAR:DB, and probably some other nifty stuff.
So things are definitely happening behind the scenes. In order for us to make a great site, we have to slow down and make sure everything is covered.
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The Dec CP will be turned back on once we have a better approval process in place.
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Ihoss wrote:you still have a lost div tag over on the right hand side. Thought I should mention that
Actually, its a broken image link, so you're seeing the alt text. I submitted a fix for that page, but its not a priority.
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I tried to subscribe to the RSS feed for new Firefox extensions using the web aggregator Bloglines (www.bloglines.com), but Bloglines tells me that there's no such feed. I've never seen Bloglines choke on a feed before (I have about 130 of them); is the problem on their end or on UMO? They are huge Firefox fans, so I'm sure they'd be glad to tweak their code if necessary.
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They're at the bottom of https://addons.update.mozilla.org/about/
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I had a nice addendum and then I lost my connection to MZ. Let me sum up:
Probably gonna be a few weeks to make sure we have everything in place. We want to make sure UMO is a quality product and unfortunately it means grinding to a halt while we have the policies and procedures put in place.
Any enhancement requests should go through Bugzilla. The advanced search we're working on might provide you with sort.
Probably gonna be a few weeks to make sure we have everything in place. We want to make sure UMO is a quality product and unfortunately it means grinding to a halt while we have the policies and procedures put in place.
Any enhancement requests should go through Bugzilla. The advanced search we're working on might provide you with sort.
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thenightfly42 wrote:I tried to subscribe to the RSS feed for new Firefox extensions using the web aggregator Bloglines (www.bloglines.com), but Bloglines tells me that there's no such feed. I've never seen Bloglines choke on a feed before (I have about 130 of them); is the problem on their end or on UMO? They are huge Firefox fans, so I'm sure they'd be glad to tweak their code if necessary.
alanjstr wrote:They're at the bottom of https://addons.update.mozilla.org/about/
Ah, let me rephrase that. I went to the RSS feed on UMO and selected Copy Link Location, and pasted that URL into Bloglines, and that failed: "No feeds were found. Please verify that the website publishes an RSS feed." I also tried left-clicking on the RSS feed, then copying the URL out of the URLBar and into Bloglines, and that also failed.
I suppose it works with the Firefox built-in LiveFeed, but I'd prefer to access it elsewhere.
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We have an open bug for making them autodiscoverable
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