1/10/2006 09:40:00 PM - Move Up or Move Over
morgamic writes about AMO, aka UMO 2.0. First of all, its great that mozilla.org or Mozilla Corporate, whichever is pulling the strings today, has once again promised to get AMO moving. I'll believe it when I see it. So how will this website be built? By contracting programmers. Is it that there aren't enough qualified php programmers to let them help for free? The AMO source is available. And of course you can track the progress. Mike and Mike have put a lot of time and effort into getting as far as they have. And other than a few broken links (the header), I'd say its damn near ready.
Well, the end-user site is. The rewrite of the developer backend is missing.
It isn't the lack of community involvement in website development that bothers me. Well, ok, it does a little. While comment moderation (and meta-moderation) may get better, the number of items to be reviewed still stands at over 200. Things get even more complicated when you have to interact with some website. Comments for review count more than 400. These are time consuming things. They're not really fun and people burn out quickly. There are 1200+ extensions and 200+ themes.
So how do you recruit and retain talent both for programming an open source project and for reviewing?
