<fligtar> firebot: tshirt status is As of January 12th, the t-shirts were incorrectly shipped to Mozilla HQ instead of to extension developers. The shirts are currently on the way back to the t-shirt company to be shipped to developers. United States residents should expect to get theirs around the end of next week or beginning of the following week.

(For those of us for which that takes a little thinking about, Jan 22nd is the estimate.)

Also in the latest update, Morgamic fixed a bug which caused your add-on to be updated (as in, jump to the top of the recently updated list and RSS feed) when you changed some of the metadata associated with it (eg. add-on description.) Add-ons are now only “updated” when a new version is uploaded. (While it could be argued that an extension is actually being updated when the developer adjusts the metadata, we believe that uploading a new version of an add-on is what users actually expect when viewing add-ons that are recently updated.)

The Remora meeting yesterday was a long one, but productive IMO. We thrashed out a lot of scheduling and target milestone stuff… and although we’ve missed our current ship date twice already, this time I’m remotely confident that we can make it, as long as we don’t change our requirements again… heh.

It seems that while tidying up the install buttons for add-ons which work on multiple platforms, I added an extra span tag and the whole thing disintegrated. Ah well. In other news, I fixed a 404 with our rss link rel=alternate stuff and styled the comments, previews, and add-on history pages for rustico.

The next thing you can expect to see is information about Sunbird add-ons on AMO. Because it’s not used as much as other Mozilla applications, it won’t appear in the footer of the site, but you will be able to search for Sunbird-compatible add-ons, users arriving via the “get more extensions” and “get more themes” links from the Sunbird add-on manager will get a Sunbird header image, add-ons which are compatible with Sunbird will show that compatibility information on their listings pages, and Sunbird-only add-ons will actually be installable

Hopefully in Remora we can streamline the process of adding another application. I foresee a non-application-specific header and site name (ie. Mozilla Add-ons rather than Firefox Add-ons.)

I think we’ll pass the hat around and buy Shaver a pony – he deserves it!

So now I’ve got everything set up and back to normal – it rocks! And if I go to Help -> About Mozilla Firefox -> Credits, my name is in there! Apparently Shaver got all the folks working on Remora in there… I think we should now refer to him as “the string puller.”

My favourite new features in Fx 2 would have to be session restore and inline spell checking – Firefox crashing and losing all my tabs (which kind of work like a to-do list) was one of the biggest pains in the ass, and my spelling isn’t great (although it’s not bad either) so these make a big difference to me. I’m not so enthusiastic about microsummaries, and while the visual refresh is cool, it’s not uber fantastic. I don’t use search plugins (I use quicksearch bookmarks to save UI space) but I do appreciate all the other thousands of bugs that have been fixed for the release.

I can’t wait for Fx 3 too – Fx2 was branched off the same branch as 1.5 was on (1.8) so there have been things fixed on the trunk from over a year ago that will not be in Fx2, but that’s development for you

For those of you not familiar with the Mozilla bug bounty program – it’s designed to reward reporters of security bugs in Mozilla software and encourage security research.

I found a bug in AMO which (if I so desired) would have allowed me to send out a new version of a popular add-on through the automatic update system, and execute whatever code I so wished on thousands of users’ computers (eg. delete harddrive, email me their saved usernames and passwords, etc. etc.) Being the good person that I am, I decided to pass on the (potential) millions of dollars worth of money I could withdraw from online bank accounts and the painful ass I would’ve got after a long jail term, and instead report it to Mozilla. It was promptly fixed and the world was a better place because of it.

More information is of course available.. hey, I was supposed to get a t-shirt too! Actually I already have a free Firefox shirt for helping out, I don’t need another one.

Add-ons which are compatible with SeaMonkey will now show that compatibility info on their listings page, you can now filter your search results to only show SeaMonkey-compatible add-ons, and SeaMonkey-only add-ons are now actually installable (they weren’t before!)

Along with a fix for the approval queue that only affects add-on reviewers, this is hoped to be the last change we ever have to make to AMO v1/2.

For those of you who don’t know me, I’m Cameron. I prefer to be known by just the one name, hence the domain (cheers to Justdave for the idea) … also cameron.com was taken

To my involvement with Mozilla: I first started using Firefox at 0.9.3 and it changed me (D&M R US). After responding to a call for volunteers to help out review add-ons at (then) UMO I gradually became more interested and involved with the project. Nowadays I hang out in #addons and #amo on moznet (as Cameron of course), provide user support and triage bugs. More recently I’ve also been dabbling in development a little – fixing trivial and minor bugs and learning about fancy stuff like CVS, patches, ssh, command line interfaces (I’m a windows user,) and Subversion. I’m involved with the team we’ve got together working on Remora (AMO v3) and even if I’m not quite up to major hacking I’m having a great time

Yes, the blog uses the default theme, but I’ve heard recently that perfect is the enemy of good (thanks Shaver). Someday when I’m bored I’ll find/make a theme and think of a better title (maybe).