340709 - Need start/end dates for add-on featuring

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(addons.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Administration, defect)

Description

[Mike Shaver (:shaver -- probably not reading bugmail closely)]

Looks like AMO1 had the ability to automatically feature and remove extensions based on month.  I'd like to be able to do that with start-end ranges, with some email notification as things go in and out of the queue and active list.

Comment 1

[Cameron]

What's wrong with just "feature this add-on" and then it's featured forever, or until someone un-features it? That would be more appropriate I think, unless you want to cycle the featured list pretty regularly. In which case, why not just automatically feature them for 6 months or something and then take them down?

Comment 2

[Mike Shaver (:shaver -- probably not reading bugmail closely)]

What's wrong is that it requires someone to manually do so, and it becomes an error-prone burden given that we do want to cycle the list more frequently (and on shorter cycles than 6 months, by a long shot).

Why are you arguing against this being fixed?  I don't get it.

Comment 3

[Cameron]

Oh I'm not arguing against it being fixed my friend, just tossing up various implementations of a fix.

Comment 4

[Mike Shaver (:shaver -- probably not reading bugmail closely)]

The bug says "implement automatic start and end dates", and you're saying "do it by hand".  That's not a fix for the bug, it's arguing that the bug doesn't need to be fixed.

We already _have_ "feature this add-on until it's unfeatured explicitly", and it's experience managing that system which has led me to request this improvement.

Comment 5

[Mike Shaver (:shaver -- probably not reading bugmail closely)]

We want to do away with the rec list rather than polishing it, I think, so I retract my request: WONTFIX.