Closed Bug 977758 Opened 11 years ago Closed 11 years ago

Search should return results for add-on where compatible version exists, but is not latest

Categories

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

Product:
addons.mozilla.org Graveyard
Component:
API
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
VERIFIED FIXED
Milestone:
2014-04

People

(Reporter: kmag, Assigned: kmag)

Details

This causes serious problems, with versions of add-ons such as Lightning needing to be reviewed on precisely the same day of release, and then becoming unavailable to users of other versions.
Although I think this is a good idea, we talked about doing this several times, but I remember we had some technical/logistical reasons why this was unfeasible. Maybe something to do with how Firefox respects maxVer, etc. I forget. fligtar and the AMO devs might know.
It's totally feasible. Easy, even. We already filter the version that we return for compatibility with the requested version, we just need to remove the filter at the add-on level. https://github.com/mozilla/zamboni/pull/1817
Fixed in https://github.com/mozilla/olympia/commit/7a1123e10b2c3b4b63f3011c9e56f54db79aecbb
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 11 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
Target Milestone: --- → 2014-04-08
Please add STR here or mark it with [qa-] if no QA is needed.
Flags: needinfo?
I'll let :kmag answer on this one ;)
Flags: needinfo?
It's hard to give simple steps to reproduce. In short, you need two versions of Firefox, and an add-on with two versions, an older one which is compatible with the older version of Firefox, and a newer one which is only compatible with the newer version. In which case: 1) Open about:addons in the older version of Firefox. 2) Search for add-on in question. 3) Ensure that result exists, offering older, compatible version of the add-on. 4) Open about:addons in the newer version of Firefox. 5) Search for add-on in question. 6) Ensure that result exists, offering newest version of the add-on.
Verified as fixed in https://addons.allizom.org/ on FF27 and FF28 (Win 7). Postfix screencast http://screencast.com/t/1KN6lkrtyYv Closing bug.
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Target Milestone: 2014-04-08 → 2014-04
Product: addons.mozilla.org → addons.mozilla.org Graveyard
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