360088 - Approval Queue Status should display number of add-ons above mine

Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX

(addons.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Developer Pages, defect)

Description

[Timwi]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0

Currently the "Approval Queue Status" at the top of https://addons.mozilla.org/developers/main.php displays how many add-ons are awaiting review.

This number is useful only at the point in time when I submit an add-on, but it is useless afterwards.

It would be nice if, for each add-on of mine that is waiting in the queue, it displayed the number of add-ons *above* it in the queue. This way I can get a good idea when it will be "my turn".

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Sebastian Hengst [:aryx] (needinfo me if it's about an intermittent or backout)]

That number wouldn't help you:
http://wiki.mozilla.org/Update:Website:DevelopersSection#Reviewing_procedure

Comment 2

[Justin Scott [:fligtar]]

Position in the approval queue means absolutely nothing. The length of time it takes for an add-on to be reviewed can take anywhere from a few hours to a few weeks depending on reviewer availability, interest, and software/hardware requirements. Every reviewer cannot review every add-on, so while the queue is ordered by date submitted, it is not processed in the same fashion.

See also: bug 295625