I haven’t been able to release an extension in over a month, and I don’t appear to be the only one. It is affecting both the listed and unlisted versions of my extensions. Moreover, this appears to be affecting many users of this forum, and possibly all extension developers. Add-on Review Questions I don't see any notification my extension is waiting on approval Self-signed addon is currently stuck at "Awaiting Review" Addon submission is taking longer than usual (mail) Unlisted AddIn - No Code Review Approval for over 15 days My add on stay in review for 5 days Addon "Awaiting review" for 11 days Addon 'Awaiting Review' for long time Automated review slowdown Self distributed add-on - Awaiting review for over a week Who reviews the Add-ons, what can we learn about the delays / progress Addon with source code awaiting review for more than 5 days My updated addon pending in review New version of extension approved, but not updated on the main site for a week, why? Here’s my honest question: Is any extension developer currently able to release an extension? Is addons.mozilla.org just broken for extension developers right now? I’m not one of the 90 or so extensions that gets code-reviewed by hand, and normally the automated checks result in my listed extension being approved in around 24 hours. This is very obviously not because the add-on reviewers don’t have time, because the add-on reviewers clearly do not review the vast majority of the ~16,100 extensions which are available for Firefox. What is really going on?

The problem I have here is that I know there are bugs in version of my extension which is currently approved and distributed on AMO. These bugs, while not critical, are potentially very annoying and they are are fixed in the version of my extension that I submitted on July 8th, then re-submitted on August 8th. Most of my users haven’t hit these bugs yet, but some have(2 that I know of), and they’ve got in touch with me about it and all I can tell them is “Sorry, I’ve been stuck in AMO review for 2 months, nobody’s telling me anything about my situation, and there doesn’t seem to be anything I can do to help you. The only thing I know is that this seems to be happening to like, everybody” What am I supposed to do here? All I care about is fixing bugs and I can’t do that without Mozilla signing a redistributable plugin.

@caitlin Given that the review backup seems to be persisting and that many folks are asking about it, do you think Mozilla might be able to give an update on the blog or something? I think answers - even unpleasant ones - might help with folks that are on edge now. It’s a bit tough when something unknown and out of our control is causing weeks-long delays. And as always, thank you for responding to developers here.

@zephyr hear hear. This is exactly my point, and the point I tried to raise in Matrix too. We’re all sitting around thinking of all the reasons that this review slowdown might be occurring and every reason I personally can think of sounds dire.

Hi @zephyr, unfortunately we don’t have a lot more we can share at the moment. However, I’ll talk to the team and see if there are any updates for next week.

Hi @caitlin. unfortunately we don’t have a lot more we can share at the moment Nothing has been shared so far. We still don’t know why this has happened, and what we can do to avoid it happening in the future. If you can’t answer these questions then please get someone who can to login and contribute to this post.

Mentioned in ublock release notes: Release 1.38.0 · gorhill/uBlock · GitHub No stable release will occur until dev build is no longer stalled Apparently a certificate / signing problem at mozilla at the moment. Maybe related: Could not update an old nightly build. Had to download and reinstall and only then received updates again.

Are you kidding me? uBlock Origin. They couldn’t find the time to approve and let Raymond release uBlock. Maybe the most valuable extension in any existing browser ecosystem. The only extensions that clearly deserves to be considered “recommended” to every single Firefox user. uBlock Origin. I shouldn’t be surprised. I had to go to Matrix and beg. Outrageous.

So @caitlin any news from the Mozilla team on this front this week?

Can Anyone release extensions right now? To me, it looks like addons.mozilla.org is critically broken

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zephyr (Zephyr) September 18, 2021, 1:14am 12

Thanks @caitlin! Until then, I’ll just keep assuming that there’s been a zombie apocalypse.

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