Hi,

Alternatively, I have found another way, despite it is not that good. I
have cloned my own Hackerplace and made it to ask for my own JSON:
https://www.codingfree.com/addons/apps.json

It helped me to try some addons.

Best regards.

2015-08-25 21:38 GMT+02:00 Michael Henretty <mhenre...@mozilla.com>:

> As many of you have pointed out to me, you cannot use WebIDE to install
> the new format add-ons. I filed this just now:
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1198433
>
> In the meantime, to install and test the new add-ons you can use the
> Hackerplace!
>
> Here's what you do:
>
> Install the latest Firefox OS on your device.
> Add your app metadata to the v2 app list [1].
> Set the DEBUG flag to true here [2].
> run `npm install && gulp build`
> Install the Hackerplace app using WebIDE or sole's excellent
> install-to-adb [3].
> You should see your add-on in the list there, and be able to install it.
>
> Let me know if you have any questions!
>
> 1.)
> https://github.com/fxos/directory/blob/1b05c8d5b24127fc6b8d20001ec460215677e0d0/app/apps-v2.json
> 2.)
> https://github.com/fxos/directory/blob/1b05c8d5b24127fc6b8d20001ec460215677e0d0/app/js/model/list_model.js#L3
> 3.) https://github.com/sole/install-to-adb
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 3:30 PM, Michael Henretty <mhenre...@mozilla.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Earlier, Fabrice sent out a nice how-to guide for migrating your add-ons
>> to the new format [1]. Now I would like to tell you how to put these new
>> add-ons on the Hackerplace.
>>
>> First, you will obviously need to update your code as specified in the
>> guide. I recommend hosting both the new add-on format and the old one in
>> the same repo on github pages. This means you will have two packages (zip
>> files) hosted there simultaneously. Here is a commit I did for my add-on
>> that does the trick [2].
>>
>> Then you will need to submit the new package to the Hackerplace. For the
>> old Hackerplace, you would put your add-on on the list in apps.json [3].
>> Now, you simply add the new add-on to apps-v2.json [4], but specify the
>> update.manifest in the manifestURL field.
>>
>> That's it! Let me know if you have any questions.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Michael
>>
>> 1.) https://etherpad.mozilla.org/converting-fxos-addons
>> 2.)
>> https://github.com/mikehenrty/fxos-shb-plus/commit/c38fbfb52b2ebf3b4c66cdf053d759c60e510481
>> 3.) https://github.com/fxos/directory/blob/master/app/apps.json
>> 4.) https://github.com/fxos/directory/blob/master/app/apps-v2.json
>>
>
>
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