On 13 Dec 2013, at 14:51, Adrian Custer <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 12/13/13, 11:31 AM, Chris Mills wrote:
>> Hi Adrian,
>> 
>> Thanks a lot for the detailed feedback! I think it is exactly this
>> kind of constructive criticism that helps the most.
> 
> Cheers.
> 
> 
>> I am on the MDN team, and in charge of maintaining the Firefox OS doc
>> zone. You can feel free to aim any doc-specific stuff at me.
> 
> Okay. Nice to meet you.
> 
>> 
> > I’d like to request that some of the platform developers try to find
> > some time to help me work out where our documentation is out of date > and 
> > in need of fixing. I ran through all the build process docs about > 2-3 
> > months ago in detail, checked that it all works, and made a
> > number of updates, but it may well be time to do that again ;-)
>> 
>> Your new article is very useful[1]; I have linked to it from the
>> main  Firefox OS zone menu[2] and from the Building and installing
> > sublanding page[3].
> 
> Oooh, no! It's not ready for that. Really, it needs a technical review first! 
> You can't have someone (me) writing how the build works who has not 
> successfully done a build and placed in on their device. Please revert.

Well, speaking as someone who has done a number of builds and installed them 
successfully on devices, it looked like it made enough sense to link to. This 
is the nature of MDN anyway - things that are published, are published. This 
also tends to encourage quicker tech reviews ;-)

Since I am the docs guy rather than a platform expert, I would still like to 
encourage one of our B2G enginners to give this doc a read over, asap.

> 
> 
> Also, once it is deemed reliable, it will need to get integrated into the 
> various menus and sections:
> https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox_OS   Left Nav Menu [DONE]
> https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox_OS   "Build & ..." Section
> https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox_OS/Build_and_install   Menu
> https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox_OS/Building_and_installing_Firefox_OS
>    "Getting and ..." Section
> 
>    You are lost in a maze of twisty pages, all alike…

This is definitely a thing I need to work on. There is a lot here, and it could 
use some improved IA. I kind of got to the point where I couldn’t see the wood 
for the trees with this section of the site, so I left it for a while and went 
on to other things. Again, any ideas will be listened to ;-)


> 
> > I also gave it an editorial review, fixing a bunch of minor
> > grammar/spelling/structural issues.
> 
> Thanks. Now I know how to make note blocks too.
> 
>> 
>> All the best,
>> 
>> Chris Mills Senior tech writer || Mozilla developer.mozilla.org ||
>> MDN [email protected] || @chrisdavidmills
>> 
>> [1]
>> https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox_OS/Building_and_installing_Firefox_OS/Firefox_OS_build_overview
>> 
>> 
> [2] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox_OS
>> [3]
>> https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox_OS/Building_and_installing_Firefox_OS
>> 

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