Testing Add-on Uploading

before they can be complete; click on the "Complete Add-on" button to make them so

AMO

AMO uses Zeus, which heavily caches content. You can tell you're getting a cached copy of the content by looking at the headers and seeing "Via: Moz-Cache-zlb??" where ?? is a number and not seeing no-cache headers. being logged in bypasses this cache completely
If you see some_string_define on AMO, it's either 1) a raw string define, or (more likely) 2) Apache needs to restart to pick up the gettext() changes.
AMO runs on a cluster of servers. To tell what server is showing you the current page look for the "X-AMO-ServedBy" header.
To view the revision of AMO you're currently seeing, view-source of any page; in the bottom, you'll see something like
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This means you're at SVN revision number 24322 -- you can cross-link this to whatever revision number was posted in the checkin comment in the bug.
Pages won't validate due to some proprietary attributes we use (like "addonname") but it should be very close.

Database queries are cached in memcache for 60 minutes. This means if you change something that doesn't invalidate the cache it won't actually change for up to 60 minutes.
If you want a really fast check to see if basic infrastructure is working look at the services monitor. This is also one of the things nagios watches.
Many scripts are run periodically via cron. This means certain things won't update right away (in addition to the cache timeouts). Some examples:
- Calculating weekly download, total download, collections, and review stats happens every 20 minutes
- Calculating the compatibility report happens every 5 minutes
- You can see exact times and all cron jobs in bug 487503

Used by applications to see if their add-ons are up to date. Can be modified using about:config by changing

 extensions.update.url

Used for the API -- spec here
- In Firefox's "Get Add-ons" tab (Tools->Add-ons->Get Add-ons). This can be configured using about:config by changing

 extensions.getAddons.recommended.url
 extensions.getAddons.search.url (replace "services" in each URL with "preview")

SAMO filters by OS and version-compatibility ranges
- e.g. If you're using Firefox 3.0.8 on Windows, you should only see add-ons that are either for "ALL" or "Win", with compat range of something -> 3.0.*
- For external sites, both 3rd party and sites like addons.mozilla.jp
- Should only output XML. Evar.

Rock your Firefox
Only used for an old Facebook app and not currently maintained/updated. bug 474466 decides its fate.

The site updates from SVN every 15 minutes automatically. It also reruns the clean and build scripts which make the compressed js files, etc.
The database is a very old copy from production AMO. It is only updated when requested through IT (talk to webdev first please).
If you're feeling wild you can directly access the staging database to verify table structure or data.