636474 - make the open source closer or unmotivate [hosted add-on development collaboration]

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Pedro Bessa]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:2.0b13pre) Gecko/20110224 Firefox/4.0b13pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:2.0b13pre) Gecko/20110224 Firefox/4.0b13pre

Does each addon have a repository? I wish I could modify the code of an addon and have the addon author decide if my code will be used. Do you think we're going to exchange codes by e-mail? Say the author is the lead developer. Make it optional with default out. Beta test it, see the feedback and change it. Plase, make it!

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Pedro Bessa]

One real problem is that after if I make a little change to an addon, I would have to keep maintaining it. For example, the original author makes a change to his addon, now I have to make the same change to mine. With more changes and more developers, it's a real problem. So let me have the chance to change the original addon.

An other problem is that after I make a little change to an addon, I have to manually package it which is an action full of chances to commit a mistake. Actually, I wrote a python script, but forgot to share it.

Comment 2

[Pedro Bessa]

I don't know how you keep Firefox from being fragmented, but you can use that again here.

Comment 3

[Pedro Bessa]

nm last comment

Comment 4

[Ed Morley [:emorley]]

This site is for bug reports, not questions/discussion.

Please ask your question here:
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You may also find this of use:
https://addons.mozilla.org/developers/