Comments on: AMO Development Changes in 2010

By: All Night Diner : PHP is dead! (on addons.mozilla.org)

All Night Diner : PHP is dead! (on addons.mozilla.org) — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 17:26:59 +0000

[...] to recognize the long coming milestone of PHP being effectively off[1] on addons.mozilla.org. We started the migration in 2010 and just finished it up a couple weeks ago. After the major pages were completed it was [...]

By: All Night Diner : High level perspective on the switch from PHP to Python

All Night Diner : High level perspective on the switch from PHP to Python — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 22:39:06 +0000

[...] ambivalent to excited, managers were opposed to neutral – a split anyone would expect. When I first talked about it I expected to be able to turn off PHP by the end of the year. It didn’t turn out quite like [...]

By: Doug from AbWorkouts

Doug from AbWorkouts — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 03:17:38 +0000

A good point made by Pavel Cvrcek.Why do you want to use a different repository when Mozilla uses Mercurial.

By: Craig Dorsey

Craig Dorsey — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 13:49:48 +0000

I’m curious about the decision to go with Hudson over buildbot though.

By: Stephen Rivers

Stephen Rivers — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 10:17:01 +0000

Of course, it’s a great framework. I trieds a few months ago, but I have a problem with python (I simply don’t like it) so I gave up. But there are plenty of other good frameworks availlable, for PHP (Symfony and Zend being the best choices IMHO) and other languages (of course Rails, but less known but still powerful tools like Grails for Groovy, Catalyst for Perl), so I wanted to know if the choice was actually a matter of taste (or maybe a few developers who already know Django), or it came after looking for pros and cons of every other choice

By: Webdesign Köln

Webdesign Köln — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 23:28:34 +0000

CakePHP 1.2+ containable behavior + object oriented database results is amazing. Sounds like your programmers jumped the gun and chose not to learn how to maximize your development in Cake. Sad.

By: Joe

Joe — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 01:43:15 +0000

Why all the attention on porting from one platform to another? If the project has out grown one system and a shift is inevitable then all you can do is ensure that when you choose the next platform that it is going to be inline with your growth/development needs.

By: corre@ webbshop

corre@ webbshop — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 19:03:16 +0000

I think the change from cakephp to django is for the better. Anyway keep up the good work!

By: Traces of a new AMO « Mozilla Add-ons Blog

Traces of a new AMO « Mozilla Add-ons Blog — Fri, 07 May 2010 21:46:16 +0000

[...] have been reported sightings of the newly rewritten AMO homepage and add-on details page in the wild since yesterday afternoon. There’s a 15% [...]

By: All Night Diner : Continuous Integration comes to AMO

All Night Diner : Continuous Integration comes to AMO — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 14:54:16 +0000

[...] time to hail another milestone for AMO in our epic push for improvements in 2010. This time I’m happy to announce our Hudson continuous integration server which has been [...]