AMO:Editors/MeetingNotes

AMO Editors Meeting Details

For now tentatively done every month,
1-800-707-2533 (pin 369) or 1-650-215-1282 or 1-650-903-0800
Conferencing Center: x92
Conference ID: 300
Additional discussion at #addons (irc.mozilla.org)

September 26

• Attendees
  • Nick Nguyen (Mozilla)
  • Jorge Villalobos (Mozilla)
  • Rey Bango (Mozilla)
  • Zadkiel
  • Andrew Williamson
  • Andreas Wagner
  • Adam Green
  • Teun van Eijsden
  • Shivanand Sharma
  • Archaeopteryx

• Queue status and new editor weekly report.
  • Editor focus on nominations is working well.
  • Focus back on updates eventually. Rey: rotating queues schedules for editors in order to distribute work properly.
  • Bring super-review escalation to a minimum.

• Review process redesign overview. http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dcxw3w5k_25hn9nd8vg

• Suggestions from editors on how to improve the system.
  • Request more descriptive information from authors, specially regarding expected behavior
  • Screenshots showing differences in add-on.
  • Allow uploading updates when in nomination queue without bumping the add-on to the back of the line.
  • Improve validation tools to detect lack of namespacing.
  • Diff for nominations https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=498072
  • Separating themes and search engines from main queues. Rey: you can sort the queues by type in the editor tools.
  • More editors.
  • Make the validation tool more verbose about its flags.
  • Author checklist before submission.
  • Inspire Confidence in new editors
  • Categorize the addons queue by the level of expertise required for reviews
  • Queue rotation. Monthly / bi-monthly.
  • Sandbox after info request and no response? 1 week, maybe?
  • Add-on update/nomination feed.
  • Editor comments -> not used much
  • Private editor mailing list.

• Feedback on call -> very good. The meeting was long and very productive, but the frequency shouldn't be too high to prevent having the meetings become meaningless.