459654 - Nachofoto FotoMarklet for your images and photos uses Google Images Re-Linker's guid

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

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

Description

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

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/5695
Nachofoto FotoMarklet for your images and photos uses Google Images Re-Linker's guid. This can cause conflicts if both extension are installed.

Comment 1

[Justin Scott [:fligtar]]

As best I can tell, Google Images Re-Linker is not hosted on AMO and is primarily available from http://forum.addonsmirror.net/index.php?showtopic=2261

It is in the best interest of add-on users for one of these two to change GUIDs, but we can't really force either.

Rey, would you mind reaching out to both authors and seeing if either is willing to change their GUID?

Comment 2

[Michael Morgan [:morgamic]]

Rey, could you contact both authors?  Are both add-ons active?

Comment 3

[Rey Bango]

I'll look into this.

Comment 4

[Carsten Book [:Tomcat]]

-> Cleaning up this Component because we Retire the "add-ons" Component in
Bugzilla 
--> Over to Administration

Comment 5

[Rey Bango]

Quick update. I'm trying to reach out to the developer of Google Images Re-Linkers since his add-on is not on AMO. If he changes his guid, it would be easier. Otherwise, it would force the other author to resubmit his add-on and lose his history.

Comment 6

[Fred Wenzel [:wenzel]]

Just out of curiosity, what *is* the GUID of these add-ons?

Comment 7

[Rey Bango]

Hey Fred. It's <em:id>{dd6bfa32-1198-4217-a0e9-1acab501a6e9}</em:id>

I sent email to Eric Hamiter who is that author of Google Images Relinker and asked if he could change it to something like [e-mail]. Since his Google add-on is no longer supported and not hosted on AMO, I'm hoping he'll help us. 

He's also the author of BugMeKnot which is hosted on AMO. Here's his site:

http://erichamiter.com/firefox-extensions/

Comment 8

[Fred Wenzel [:wenzel]]

Wow, a UUID conflict? That's so unlikely that one of them *must* have copied it from the other (or both from a third source, like a tutorial?). Either way, thanks for pushing this forward, Rey.

Comment 9

[Rey Bango]

Yeah it's very likely that happened. Unfortunately, Eric isn't to keen on making the change due to time constraints so I will have to ask the author of Nachofoto FotoMarklet to do it. 

One thing to consider is that Eric's add-on is no longer supported. To quote his email to me:

"All of my extensions are old and practically deprecated, and changing the GUIDS for them and then re-uploading them is precisely the reason I no longer support them."

So does it even make sense to push forward on this? If I ask the NachoFoto guy to change his guid, my understanding is that he will have to resubmit and he will lose his reviews so before I do this, I want a sanity check.

Thoughts?

Comment 10

[Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) (use needinfo?)]

Given Eric's situation we could just let this go and not bother with changing anything. Is Google Image Re-Linker supported in FF3? If not, every day that goes by reduces the likelihood of a conflict.

If we do nothing about the situation for now, we should let Eric know that Nachofoto has be "given" the UUID and if Google Image Re-Linker comes back from the dead, it will need to have a new UUID or it could be blocklisted.

Comment 11

[Rey Bango]

That sounds fine to me especially in light that Eric has said his add-on is no longer supported. Is everyone in agreement?

Comment 12

[Fred Wenzel [:wenzel]]

I think if his extension is "practically deprecated" and, as far as I can tell (http://roachfiend.com/archives/2005/03/06/google-images-re-linker/) do not even support Firefox 2 (!), asking the other author to re-upload his (public) add-on with all implications is overkill IMO.

I'm fine with WONTFIXing this.

Comment 13

[Rey Bango]

Ok. So I've marked it as WONTFIX and will let Eric know.