On 11/26/15 11:51 AM, David Rajchenbach-Teller wrote: > For what it's worth, this thread was not meant to point fingers, but > specifically to get an answer from said team. I see concern about > Extension Signing, and I see points made by add-on developers and which > appear valid to me and which I am unable to answer. > > That doesn't mean that we have done something wrong, but it is > sufficient to get my spider(monkey)-sense tingling. We have had cases in > the past where teams have « been busting their asses over [some feature] > for months » and we realized too late that the feature was not aligned > with what we needed. I have no idea whether this is the case here, hence > the need to communicate. > > As a side-note, yeah, it would be great if signing add-ons was as simple > as using Let's Encrypt, without having to pile even more work upon an > understaffed team of reviewers. > > Best regards, > David > > On 26/11/15 18:13, Mike Hoye wrote: >> On 2015-11-26 11:07 AM, Thomas Zimmermann wrote: >>> >>> I haven't followed the overall discussion closely, but >> This is not OK. >> >> Does anyone here actually think that the team that's been busting their >> asses over this for months _doesn't_ have better information and more >> insight into this problem than what you've come up with after thinking >> about it for five minutes? > > [...] >
Unfortunately, this discussion has been going on in too many places, which is why I would like to keep it focused in the mozilla.addons.user-experience group, which is where most of it is happening. This project has been discussed to death for years now, but it's only getting into some people's radar until now, so it's understandable that there are lots of old questions coming up, and some of us are responding a bit impatiently. We knew going into this that it would alienate a subset of the add-on developer community, just like we know that dropping features in Firefox will lose us some users, but help us in the long term. That doesn't mean we're just dismissing all criticism, and we're discussing making some adjustments to improve things for developers. Given that many people are away for Thanksgiving Day, I don't expect anything to happen until early next week. I'll make sure something is posted on this thread. Jorge _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
