1032828 - view other app of same dev

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Marketplace Graveyard :: Consumer Pages, defect, P5)

Description

[dattaz]

Add the fonctionnality to view other app of the same develloper. For exemple just by clicking on the name of the develloper.

This is requets by seveal user during marketplace night in Paris.

Comment 1

[Tony Santos [:tsmuse]]

Sounds like making the developer name a link that pulls up search results of their other apps is the way to go on this for a v1.

Comment 2

[Rob Hudson [:robhudson]]

(In reply to Tony Santos [:tsmuse] from comment #1)
> Sounds like making the developer name a link that pulls up search results of
> their other apps is the way to go on this for a v1.

I tested this simply by copy/pasting the developer name into the search box and searching. It *mostly* works but will often pull in other apps when the developer name has multiple words and some of those are common search terms, like "Hive Digital Media".

Should we do this if the results will not be limited to just the developer clicked?

Comment 3

[Tony Santos [:tsmuse]]

I would say probably not. Is it out of scope for this to impliment a search of only the developer name(author)data we have stored in the catalog and return results based on that?

Comment 4

[Christopher Van Wiemeersch [:cvan]]

AFAIK, we already do:

    https://marketplace.firefox.com/search?q=toshi

Comment 5

[Rob Hudson [:robhudson]]

(In reply to Tony Santos [:tsmuse] from comment #3)
> I would say probably not. Is it out of scope for this to impliment a search
> of only the developer name(author)data we have stored in the catalog and
> return results based on that?

Yeah, it could be a separate parameter to the search API and we could do an exact match on it. That's probably the best approach.

(In reply to Christopher Van Wiemeersch [:cvan] from comment #4)
> AFAIK, we already do:
> 
>     https://marketplace.firefox.com/search?q=toshi

Yes, the developer name is in the search index but a simple q= search isn't going to do an exact match on just developer. You may get only the apps for a developer but you may get other things also.

Comment 6

[Rob Hudson [:robhudson]]

Added author search to the API:
https://github.com/mozilla/zamboni/commit/b0ac444 

Linked author name to author search in consumer pages:
https://github.com/mozilla/fireplace/commit/8bc70a7

Comment 7

[Victor Carciu]

Can we push this on Stage too for testing?

Comment 8

[Rob Hudson [:robhudson]]

(In reply to Victor Carciu from comment #7)
> Can we push this on Stage too for testing?

This was on stage but we needed to do a reindex.

Go to any app's detail page. From there you can click the app's developer name to view other apps by this developer.

Comment 9

[Victor Carciu]

Verified as fixed : http://screencast.com/t/ZPEIOxHrszZJ