Migrate existing Test Pilot users to AMO

[groovecoder]

Congratulations on a successful Test Pilot run! We'd like to get this in AMO so you can start managing and pushing your updates. Below are the steps off the top of my head:

• Fix the add-on title, description, and drop the UpdateURL
• Drop Telemetry
• Upload new add-on to AMO. The current edit page is at https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/developers/addon/containers-experiment/edit.
• Change the "How to distribute" option to be "On this site" instead of "on your own"
  • https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/containers-experiment/ should start working
• @clouserw: Disable the install button on Test Pilot (publish the graduation report)
• @clouserw: can redirect existing users to the AMO version. They'll get the new version as their browser checks for updates (once a day)
• @groovecoder: Get ratings/users for new AMO version and then submit for featuring on AMO

[ghost]

Oh, sure. Mostly just dropping the updateURL (it defaults to AMO). You can see the checklist I made for them at internetarchive/wayback-machine-firefox#84

[jonathanKingston]

@wresuolc I assume that we can't ever rename the extension can we? The id will always be that it is a test pilot experiment if so.

[ghost]

It's a lot more complex to change the ID (basically involves you making a whole new add-on and publishing a new version of the old one that installs the new one). I'd leave the ID alone, personally. :)

[groovecoder]

I was able to upload the 3.1.0 internally-signed 'Mozilla Extension' to AMO, so next week we should be able to upload the next and change the "How to distribute" to "On this site"

[groovecoder]

@jonathanKingston - nevermind, looks like summary + description both come from the AMO admin interface.

[grahamperrin]

From https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/-/18918/3?u=grahamperrin (2017-08-07):

… automation was probably with Firefox Sync. …

tl;dr if I understand correctly, you may find migrations occurring sooner than originally intended where users of Firefox Sync allow synchronisation of extensions.

[jonathanKingston]

I dunno how this happens, I haven't been able to replicate it. My only assumption is the update servers were messed up for a while perhaps.

[jonathanKingston]

Closing this happened.