On 7 Jun 2014, at 16:56, Julien Wajsberg <[email protected]> wrote:
> Le 07/06/2014 15:36, Adrian Custer a écrit : >> >> The biggest challenge for me is that the Firefox OS free software *project* >> does not exist. Right now Mozilla has all its developers working in little >> teams each doing great work on their piece of the puzzle. However, there is >> no real, effective, communicating leadership to which the core issues can be >> brought and who could provide a plan to resolve all the technical debt. >> Critically for us outsiders, the insiders do not have it as part of their >> work to build the community and pull us in. Individually they are each >> willing to help and enthusiastic but structurally this has not been stated >> as part of their responsibilities so the project is not forming as an >> effective collaboration of outsiders and Mozilla. > > Yes, this is sadly true. Thanks for saying it in such a clear way :) > > That said, it should be easier to contribute in a specific application (as > opposed to the underlying system bits). > > Even if the documentation improved a lot (thanks to the huge work of Chris > Mills and people like you), we still need to make it easier to find the first > steps to do. Even for me, it's not always easy to know what to look first on > MDN. Hi CM, Adrian, Julien, all! I want to thank CM, Adrian and others for their continued very useful feedback. I’m in charge of Firefox OS documentation (and about a million other things) on MDN, so, while I can’t do anything about the building process itself, I can do something about the documentation. It is a lot easier to navigate than it used to be, but I’d love your help to improve it further. Now, https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox_OS is the main landing page. There is a lot of stuff to document here, so I used the “Introduction" article as a way to help signpost people to the information they need, in addition to the left hand navigation menu, of course. The main build instructions are under “Build and install” - I’ve tested these thoroughly and got them to work on a couple of different devices. However, there are obviously some troubles in getting these to work across other devices, so I think some changes need to be made. 1. I’m not a build systems expert, and don’t have the time to constantly monitor changes in the build system, so I need someone to give me regular help on this. 2. Different devices have different requirements and foibles, and it is hard to find out what they all are without spending my entire life testing the build process across all devices. Again, I need some help here. I have got some lightweight coverage of different devices under “Developer phone guide”, but it has been really hard to find out all the information. Let me know what docs are still missing to be truly useful, and I’ll start improving things. CM, I am interested in your input at this stage of your work - what did you find lacking in the docs? Adrian, your work on writing build docs sounds really interesting, and I’d love to find out more about this. Best, Chris Mills Senior tech writer || Mozilla developer.mozilla.org || MDN [email protected] || @chrisdavidmills _______________________________________________ dev-b2g mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-b2g
