729757 - Need an email list of all SDK authors

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(addons.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Administration, defect, P3)

Description

[Jeff Griffiths (:canuckistani) (:⚡︎)]

We would like to directly contact all add-on authors with add-ons on AMO to encourage them to update their add-on to use the latest version of the SDK. This is due to the use of nsIDOMNSElement in older versions of the SDK ( 1.3 and lower. )

Comment 1

[Wil Clouser [:clouserw]]

AMO has a form which allows admins to send email to arbitrary groups of users.  That sounds like the easiest way to solve this and bug 729758.

What is your timeline?

Comment 2

[Wil Clouser [:clouserw]]

Kumar: you wrote the form originally, so giving to you.  This is just putting an "All SDK authors" option in the dropdown.  You can find SDK add-ons with the jetpack_version column in the files table.

Comment 3

[Kumar McMillan [:kumar]]

Landed: https://github.com/mozilla/zamboni/commit/ccd99e5

There is an option for this in the dropdown box now: https://addons-dev.allizom.org/en-US/admin/email-devs

Comment 4

[Wil Clouser [:clouserw]]

Thanks Kumar.  Jeff - let me know what/when you want to send and we can do it.

Comment 5

[Kumar McMillan [:kumar]]

it wouldn't hurt to QA this feature since if something goes wrong we could be spamming a lot of developers :) I got reviews on the code and I am pretty confident about it. Just sayin'

Comment 6

[Jeff Griffiths (:canuckistani) (:⚡︎)]

A couple of thoughts on this:

1. for 'testing', do you mean an initial live use, or some sort of 'test' mode where we don't actually send email?

2. although this bug was created to cover a previous issue, we are going to mount a 're-pack! re-pack!' campaign in the next while to move SDK devs forward in particular wrt to Firefox 15. We need to discuss with fligtar, jorge etc and agree on some policies first though, likely during the add-ons work week starting June 4.

3. I think this feature will be very useful. I also would like to get some sort of more fine-grained capabilities, eg searching for a sub-set of add-ons based on some criteria and sending email only to those authors. I suspect that would be a lot more work though.

Comment 7

[Kumar McMillan [:kumar]]

(In reply to Jeff Griffiths from comment #6)
> A couple of thoughts on this:
> 
> 1. for 'testing', do you mean an initial live use, or some sort of 'test'
> mode where we don't actually send email?

Yeah, there is a test mode where you can download a CSV of all the emails and recipients without sending emails.


> 
> 3. I think this feature will be very useful. I also would like to get some
> sort of more fine-grained capabilities, eg searching for a sub-set of
> add-ons based on some criteria and sending email only to those authors. I
> suspect that would be a lot more work though.

There are ways to hook up other criteria but if it would be ok to email all sdk authors with the prefix of "ignore this email if you don't do X in your add-on" then obviously that would not involve dev time and thus would be faster for you guys.

But that said, adding new filters is pretty easy (as you can see from the patch above)