551579 - Experimental add-ons are listed in search results for anonymous users

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(addons.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Search, enhancement, P5)

Description

[krupa raj[:krupa]]

Attachment: screenshot

steps to reproduce:
1.As per https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=550380#c0 ,experimental add-ons should not be listed for anonymous users

2.Without logging in,go to search results page https://preview.addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search?q=blue&cat=1%2C72

observed behavior:
Experimental add-ons are listed in search results for anonymous users.

Comment 1

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

This shouldn't be targeted in this milestone as backfilling experimental addons is what we've always done in the search engine (it's in production).

I don't think we should hide experimental addons in the search engine - just bury them.... which is what we do now.

Comment 3

[krupa raj[:krupa]]

bug 524005 is a RFE whereas this is bug about the discrepancy of the current implementation against your spec documented in https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=550380#c0 

We can "WONTFIX" this bug if we decide that backfilling with exp add-ons is the right way to do it.


It is better to track https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=524005#c4 as s separate bug.So reopening this bug.

Comment 4

[Wil Clouser [:clouserw]]

If we're not going to backfill them, then what was the point of making the buttons with checkboxes to enable them?  -> fligtar for decision

Comment 5

[krupa raj[:krupa]]

(In reply to comment #1)
> This shouldn't be targeted in this milestone as backfilling experimental addons
> is what we've always done in the search engine (it's in production).
> 
> I don't think we should hide experimental addons in the search engine - just
> bury them.... which is what we do now.


When the user is sorting the search results,the experimental add-ons are not buried anymore-

For example:

https://preview.addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search?sort=averagerating&q=&appid=1&cat=0%2C0&tag=&atype=-1&pid=-1&lup=&lver=any&pp=20

here the search results are sorted by "rating"

Experimental add-on-" Maryamsoft Online Dictionary And Translator" is listed in the first page.

Comment 6

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

Yes, we backfill for "relevance" sort only since we are making a judgement call that experimental addons are not as relevant.

Whereas an explicit sort should not be backfilled as that would then be unsorted.