Comment by akira2501
2 years ago
> that assumes the person running it has 0 clue about your extension.
I would tend to assume that a person given responsibility for reviewing this software, supposedly to protect end users, would not be this clueless.
What value is the "Firefox Store" actually offering then?
> What value is the "Firefox Store" actually offering then?
That anyone dumber than such a reviewer cannot sneak malicious extensions in.
Which, sadly, is probably a non-trivial number of submissions.
> That anyone dumber than such a reviewer cannot sneak malicious extensions in.
Although people smarter than such a reviewer are free to? What kind of standard is that?
> Which, sadly, is probably a non-trivial number of submissions.
Then they're not, as an organization, actually capable of doing what they're promising here. There are more ways to get this wrong than to get it right, and borrowing the Google strategy of just not caring about your end users seems completely inappropriate for a non-profit like Mozilla.
> What kind of standard is that?
That's the standard of all currated stores.
We can argue about whether Mozilla's reviewer skillset is too low, but there's always going to be someone smarter than a reviewer, when reviewing is a cost center that companies want to spend the minimum amount of money on.
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> I would tend to assume that a person given responsibility for reviewing this software, supposedly to protect end users, would not be this clueless.
would you do that job 8+ hours a day for little pay?
Would you run a foundation that forces it's users to be dependent on such a job?
Ya'll are putting the cart before the horse. I'm not being critical of the reviewer but of the large non profit organization that is responsible for creating this failure. Which apparently only exists to pantomime what the for profit players have built and is unsurprisingly equally wasteful of open source developers time and skill set.
Why does Firefox even need a curated "store?" They could have built anything better. I'm sure they were paid, er given "donations," that ensured they would never try. And from what everyone has been saying here those donations got exactly what they were intended to get.
Even Hacker News seems to unquestioningly assume this is a rational way to manage an open source plugin ecosystem. That this is the fault of the plugin author somehow or the store reviewer somehow. It's really disappointing to see.