Marketplace/App Status

The Marketplace has been placed into maintenance mode. It is no longer under active development. You can read complete details here.

This is a list/explanation of status values used with webapps (courtesy of robhudson and eviljeff).

legend: STATUS / User facing status

NULL / Incomplete

• Used while the app submission is in progress
• Detail page not accessible
• Not searchable
• Not installable

PENDING / Pending approval

• Detail page accessible
• Only installable by developer
• Not searchable

PUBLIC / Published

• Detail page accessible
• Installable by all

APPROVED / Approved but private

• Detail page accessible by developer/admin
• Only installable by dev
• Not searchable

UNLISTED / Unlisted

• Detail accessible (to all)
• Installable (by all)
• Not searchable

REJECTED / Rejected

• Detail page only accessible to developer/admin
• Only installable by dev
• Not searchable

DISABLED / Banned from Marketplace

• Formally called Disabled by Mozilla but changed to be unambiguous c.f. developer disabled (see below).
• Used for problem apps where we don't want a resubmission or new version.
• Detail page inaccessible
• Not installable
• Not searchable

DELETED / Deleted

• irreversible soft delete
• slug gets changed to app's pk so its accessible by admin/reviewer tools for audit
• origin is cleared

BLOCKED / Blocked

• As rejected (iirc) but an empty update has been served to existing users to block a malicious/completely broken app

pseudo-state: .disabled

• Not an app status, it's a boolean that can co-exist with any status above.
• Developer sets this state explicitly (and can unset it)
• Detail page inaccessible
• Not searchable
• No checking for manifest changes in hosted apps.
• Doesn't appear in any review queues (i.e. a pending submission doesn't appear in the review queue)

File statuses

• as app statuses except DISABLED user facing name is Obsolete and is used for any non pending, non-approved file
• only statuses used are [PENDING|APPROVED|PUBLISHED|DISABLED|BLOCKED]