Labs/Jetpack/FlightDeck/1.0a2/Release Announcement

Rocketeers!

We're happy to announce the Add-ons Builder Preview Release, an early look at the web application we're developing to make it easy to build Firefox add-ons right in your browser without having to download or install anything.

Add-ons Builder provides the same APIs that are available in the Jetpack SDK, and it lets you build, test, and bundle add-ons for distribution via addons.mozilla.org.

Keep in mind that this is a preview release at an alpha stage of development, which means that it is not feature complete, still contains many bugs, and will continue to evolve rapidly.

To use Add-ons Builder, just go to builder.mozillalabs.com. To learn how to use it, see the documentation, including a step-by-step tutorial for creating an add-on. And if you experience a problem, check out the release notes for a list of known issues and their workarounds.

We'd love to get your feedback on this release! What works well, and what can be improved? What is missing, and what is present that shouldn't be? You can provide feedback by posting to this discussion group, reporting a bug, or conversing with us in #jetpack on irc.mozilla.org.

-myk, on behalf of the Jetpack team