Appexchange on Hold in February
We always get caught off guard by these Appexchange listing suspensions:
…there will be a regularly scheduled temporary suspension of AppExchange registration for new applications from February 8th to February 16th, 2008. During this time no new applications can be registered, meaning that the AppExchange will not create private or public listings for any new apps.
Ever since Salesforce started doing rolling upgrades to their servers (shortly after a Winter release that went awry) there’s always been a period of time when the Appexchange isn’t taking new listings. This is because some Salesforce customers are on the old release and some are on the new release.
If you’re in the middle of a rollout, the inability to create new private packages for a full week is a real drag. Make sure to do your development before February 8th or you’ll be copying and pasting like it’s 2005!
January 26th, 2008 at 2:11 pm
How much can I use the new Salesforce.com IDE to manage my deployment vs. the AppExchange packaging process? I hope to use the Eclipse based tool to move everthing back and forth!
January 26th, 2008 at 6:06 pm
Steve, is it REALLY that big of an issue? Are you creating new apps every week?! I don’t get this moaning of yours about this issue :p.
January 30th, 2008 at 8:40 am
If the Appexchange goes down for a week right when you’re trying to build out a client instance, yes, it is a big deal. Not the end of the world, but in a consulting gig, waiting a week for packaging to turn back on is a real drag. If we plan ahead, we can limit the amount of packaging we would need to do during that week. But you never know what a client is going to want, and if they want something you’ve built somewhere else it’s much easier to package it up.
Eclipse will hopefully replace the concept of a private appexchange for this kind of work. It’s in developer preview now, and doesn’t hit all the things you can currently package. I’m looking forward to it!