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Reducing the friction on contributions / adoption #46

Closed mcataford closed 2 years ago

mcataford commented 2 years ago

While looking for tab-grouping solutions on Firefox, I stumbled on this extension and it came up ahead of the others as it's open-sourced -- it's always easier to trust something when you can do a quick audit yourself.

One thing that came to mind while checking the extension out though was that there's no details on how users can package it from source (in case they would rather not trust the FF store's hosted version for ) or can set up a development environment to submit contributions.

Would that be something you'd be interested in facilitating @chzesa? Speaking for self, it would definitely be cool to participate, but first and foremost, I'd like to package it myself before installing it. :sweat_smile:

I'm down to help make that happen if it's blocked by bandwidth!

chzesa commented 2 years ago

No packaging process is required. A development environment can be set up as follows:

  1. Clone the repository and its submodules, e.g. git clone --recursive git@github.com:chzesa/tiled-tab-groups.git
  2. Navigate to about:debugging#/runtime/this-firefox, click on Load a Temporary Add-on, and select the manifest.json file in the src folder

The addon file hosted on AMO is just the zipped contents of the src folder with metadata added by mozilla. This can be verified by downloading the addon from AMO (right click in the installation button, click save link as), changing the downloaded .xpi file's extension to .zip and extracting it.

mcataford commented 2 years ago

Thank you for the details and for adding this information to the documentation!! :pray: