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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 8/6/2019 6:52 AM, Graeme wrote:<br>
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<p>Personally I would hope for the flurry of activity before the
ESR, that way, I hope, there are fewer broken addons as
developers make sure, working with the betas, that their addons
will work before the users know anything - am I wrong?</p>
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<p>Are you wrong to hope? No.</p>
<p>But we cannot force add-on authors to act. And history
repeatedly shows that only the add-ons with the most active and
informed authors are made compatible during beta and available at
the time of ESR release. That is a fraction of the add-ons listed
on ATN. So there is never a blizzard before ESR.<br>
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<p>Affecting the needle to have add-ons available sooner is very
challenging. As a knowledgeable add-on author yourself, perhaps
you can contribute ideas and manpower to help move the needle.<br>
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