AMO policy and feature discussions will be moving to our forums

[Justin Scott]

Hi there,

With the launch of the Developer Hub a few weeks ago, we created new
forums for many add-on topics at forums.addons.mozilla.org.

We haven't been pointing too many users there during the first few
weeks, but starting with this newsgroup, we'll begin moving our AMO
product, development, and other discussions to the appropriate forums there.

So, if you're interested in finding out what's coming up with AMO or
commenting on our proposals, just log in there with your AMO nickname
(not email address) and password and join in the discussion.

I've just posted a new spec there for Stub Entries.

https://forums.addons.mozilla.org/viewforum.php?f=19

Thanks
Justin

[David Farning]

Justin,

Where would you like me to put my questions about implementing my own
AMO instance? It seems that every couple of weeks, as we scale
activities.sugarlabs.org , I have a question or two regarding how to
scale AMO. Most recently I got some great advice on tuning memcache
and how to move the download server to a seperate machine.

My questions for this week are about setting up multiple AMO PHP servers.
1. Do you have FILES_HOST and REPO_PATH pointing to a common NFS
mountpoint which is shared across each PHP server instance?
2. Do you do anything special to send the Apache log files to a
specific machine for parsing to generate the statistics?

david

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[Justin Scott]

You can ask your questions here or on the forums. If we decide to lock
the newsgroup at some point to prevent spam, the forums would be the
best place probably.

In response to your 2 new questions:
1) Yes, we use NFS for shared files
2) Our load balancers handle logging to a central log server. Previously
this was done by Netscalers, but we now use Zeus.

[Robert Kaiser]

Justin Scott wrote:
> starting with this newsgroup, we'll begin moving our AMO
> product, development, and other discussions to the appropriate forums
> there.

You'll at least lose me as someone discussing things with your team,
then. I'll not go to forums, I'll continue to exclusively read
newsgroups, everything else is too much work, my daily routine already
has too many communication channels, I won't add another one.

Bye.

Robert Kaiser

[Peter Lairo]

+1 (forums are cumbersome, slow, and inefficient)
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[Majken Connor]

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If forums have RSS enabled it's not so bad, that's what I do for SUMO. I
actually like the reduction of noise as I have it set to only notify me of
new threads, then if it's a thread I'm interested in I'll watch it.

What Mozilla in general really needs is someone to write a good tool that
allows people to follow the same conversation either via newsgroup or forum.

[Andrew Williamson]

at Moz08 there was a session I attended where Myk Melez(?) demonstrated a tool
that was trying to do something like that (combining mailing
lists,newsgroups,rss into a single view). I tried it out at the time in its
early stage but I'm really sure where its at now tbh.

http://labs.mozilla.com/snowl/
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/8397/