521448 - Platform-specific search lists unsupported add-ons

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(addons.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Public Pages, defect, P1)

Description

[krupa raj[:krupa]]

steps to reproduce:
1.In the advanced search select platform=MACOSX and hit enter
2.Notice the add-ons listed in the search results.

observed behavior:
Search lists "Qute" which is not supported on MAC OSX

screencast:http://screencast.com/t/5SaNFW3SRh

screenshot: http://screencast.com/t/RsxFzyx4

Able to reproduce on both preview and prod

Comment 1

[Dave Dash [:davedash, :dd] (assign all bugs to mbrandt)]

Attachment: v1

New patch seemingly fixes this regression:
* Removed python indexing scripts
* Using a select query (no need for views) to create index
* Indexing is faster again, in prod we should be able to run it every 5 mins again.

Also, Qute never shows up with Mac OS selected... too.

Comment 2

[Wil Clouser [:clouserw]]

Comment on attachment 406267 [details] [diff] [review]
v1

do we have a way of updating sphinx.conf without involving IT yet?

Comment 3

[Dave Dash [:davedash, :dd] (assign all bugs to mbrandt)]

Yes, we'll verify with Chizu that it's working - not sure if we had a chance to get it running, but preview (and in theory prod) shouldn't need special instructions after this next release.

Comment 4

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

(In reply to comment #3)
> Yes, we'll verify with Chizu that it's working - not sure if we had a chance to
> get it running, but preview (and in theory prod) shouldn't need special
> instructions after this next release.

I can still reproduce on preview: https://preview.addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search?q=&cat=all&as=1&appid=1&lver=3.5&atype=0&pp=20&pid=3&sort=&lup= (so looks like we still need to work w/Chizu).

Comment 5

[Dave Dash [:davedash, :dd] (assign all bugs to mbrandt)]

looks like a regression... or something on my part... investigating

Comment 6

[Dave Dash [:davedash, :dd] (assign all bugs to mbrandt)]

Talked to osunick and stephend here's the skinny.

There is a bug here, but this is actually working correctly.  If you look at Qute, older versions of it will work with OS X.

The real bug is that the messaging is poor in the search results.

Furthermore, things like release channels that are in the work for the future will complicate this - it's entirely possible that the oldest version of Qute is still a viable addon for MacOS users,a nd that if you subscribed to that release channel you'd never get updated past that version.  However, if you had Windows, you'd get updated versions that only support Windows.

So, WONTFIX, there's an issue out there, and we should resolve it, but I think steps are underway to do that.