[Project_owners] Thunderbird addon not updated on addons.mozilla.org

[Axel Hecht]

Niko Berger wrote:
> Yeap they are all in sandbox... how do you "get" reviewers? its quite a 
> pain to see all my work being stuck there... I already had to update the 
> description so people use the link from a different site, but i am 
> really not happy with that solution.
> 
> Niko
> 
> eric.jung at yahoo.com wrote:
>> Sounds like your releases are stuck in the sandbox. You need reviewers 
>> to get them public.
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----
>> From: Niko Berger <niko.berger at corinis.com>
>> To: Mozdev Project Owners List <project_owners at mozdev.org>
>> Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 9:55:23 AM
>> Subject: Re: [Project_owners] Thunderbird addon not updated on 
>> addons.mozilla.org
>>
>> Douglas E. Warner wrote:
>> > On Tuesday 30 October 2007, Niko Berger wrote:
>> > >> I am the main dev behind the thunderbird extension synckolab and am
>> >> wondering why none of my updates since july 2006! (0.4.23) have been
>> >> made available? is there any way to speed up the process (there was
>> >> quite a lot of development since then (i uploaded 0.4.33 - apr. 2007,
>> >> 0.5.2 - now since then) - also added/removed quite a few version 
>> because
>> >> while being in the sandbox files have changed and people 
>> downloading it
>> >> from the dev site found/fixed bugs.
>> >>   >
>> > Updates to addons.mozilla.org <http://addons.mozilla.org> are done 
>> manually by the project owner, not
>> > automatically by Mozdev.
>> >
>> > We're looking into offering this functionality; you can track the 
>> progress in
>> > bug #1649:
>> > https://www.mozdev.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=1649
>> >
>> > -Doug
>> >
>> I am the product owner and I manually updated it on mozdev... I was only
>> wondering if other people also experienced such long delays in getting
>> their updates online and approved by addons.mozilla.org 
>> <http://addons.mozilla.org> and/or if there
>> is any way to contact the team responsible for approving. As stated
>> above: my extension has seen no update (at least on addons.mozilla.org 
>> <http://addons.mozilla.org>)
>> since mid-2006
>>
>> ps.: a connection between mozdev and addons.mozilla.org 
>> <http://addons.mozilla.org> would indeed be
>> quite cool - but not really necessary. using the update page on
>> addons.mozilla.org <http://addons.mozilla.org> is not really difficult 
>> and updates normally dont
>> happen on an hourly basis anyway

As Paul said, #addons is one way. Note that anybody with an account on 
AMO can write a review, which is what you should try to get your users 
to do, I guess.

I have been trying to see the new version, but it seems that I can't 
find them in the sandbox. Got a link?

Axel