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Inconsistent flow in the Name+Summary fields editing for addons with multiple locales #1803

Open AlexandraMoga opened 5 years ago

AlexandraMoga commented 5 years ago

Problem statement:

In the context of the content-optimization project, addons with multiple locales will have their manifest description cut automatically during submission, in order to comply with the 70 chars length for the Name + Summary fields.

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On the other hand, the Edit product page doesn't enforce this limitation anymore since mozilla/addons-server#10484, which fixed a bunch of errors in the submission/edit flow.

This creates a counterintuitive workflow, because first we are trimming the description added by the developers in their manifest, then we let them update this filed through the Edit product page without any length restrictions. This not only creates double work for the developers, but will also raise the question of why we trimming the description in the first place?

This issue is supposed to serve as a reminder for the current limitations brought by the Name and Summary fields combination.

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stale[bot] commented 5 years ago

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jvillalobos commented 5 years ago

This creates a counterintuitive workflow, because first we are trimming the description added by the developers in their manifest, then we let them update this filed through the Edit product page without any length restrictions.

IIRC, part of this project was to not allow fields coming from the manifest to be editable in the devhub, so I don't know if this issue is valid.

KevinMind commented 7 months ago

Old Jira Ticket: https://mozilla-hub.atlassian.net/browse/ADDSRV-9