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The Add-on converter Add-on Project

The Problem

There are many FireFox and Thunderbird add-ons that would work also for SeaMonkey after Conversion with the great Add-on Converter for SeaMonkey. But too few users know about this possibility, and currently too many steps are necessary to get the converted add-on

The Plan

Create a SeaMonkey add-on for following tasks

1. Add a “SeaMonkey Download button" to add-on page view what will transfer the add-on URL to Converter if add-on ist not "SeaMonkey ready" and conversion is promising
2. Check in “Works after conversion database“ how reliably converted add-on will work
3. Give user a help for decision by a compatibility rating (based on list on SeaMonkey/AddonCompat, may be additional sources) for decision to

Project Details

ToDos

1. Create database showing add-ons what will word after conversion and also add-ons what will not work after conversion
   1. Check whether SeaMonkey/AddonCompat is suitable
2. Test more add-ons and leave compatibility rating at SeaMonkey/AddonCompat
3. .

Possible Sticking Points

1. Future of AMO is unknown.
2. Will Mozilla plan only to allow installation of “signed" add-ons have impact?
3. currently discussed database for compatibility rating (SeaMonkey/AddonCompat)
   1. only has 1 single maintainer
   2. is very vulnerable, because everybody can modify it
4. Search Add-ons filter might make it impossible to find the Add-ons what are working perfectly with SeaMonky, at leas a part of the problem might be
   1. bug 1162864- Add-on find results from speech balloon not found in final search results
   2. {{Bug{1139273}} - Search Addons will not show most plausible hits

Ideas

(Please liave your signature behind your idea)

• Try to get running Add-on Compatibility Reporter (bug 1149016 - Add-on Compatibility Reporter 2.0.5 does not work with SeaMonkey), so that collective experience can be used for add-on-compatibility ratings instead of painful editing of SeaMonkey/AddonCompat -- Rrbd (talk) 22:44, 5 May 2015 (PDT)

Rejected Ideas

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Project Members

• lemon_juice: programmer
• Rainer Bielefeld: byeworker, testing
• you? : byeworker, testing

Schedule

• Week 20/2015: Discussion at SeaMonkey Status Meeting

Information

1. Related Bugs:
   1. bug 1145026 - AMO Add-On-Descriptions: Add link function leading to SeaMonkey add-on-converter and filling URL input pane
   2. bug 1162374 - Impossible to download particular add-on versions from AMO
2. mozillaZine