426500 - Language pack authors, reviews etc not accessible anymore

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 426201

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

Description

[Axel Hecht [:Pike]]

With the recent overhaul of AMO, language packs are only available through https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/browse/type:3, pointing directly to the xpi.

Now we have the same problem for langpacks as for dictionaries, there's no way to find the author, or comment or review. Which is worse for langpacks, as we decided to use the community building features of reviews and comments to give users a feeling of the quality of the language pack.

The low key fix could possibly be to link to the add-on page again instead of the xpi, maybe for both dictionaries and langpacks.

Comment 1

[Fred Wenzel [:wenzel]]

I agree -- now that the details pages are available for both dictionaries and language packs and they are supposed to be treated as "first class citizens", they should be easily accessible as well. Same goes for sandboxed lang packs, that need to be found so they have a chance to get out of the sandbox.

Comment 2

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

Verified dup