Hi all,

Now I've got the Developing Gaia documentation[1] up to scratch, it is now time 
to turn my attention to Developing Firefox OS's lower level platform areas.

And I need your help to begin with, as I don't really know that much about 
build systems, etc. The current Developing Firefox OS page[2] is now quite 
sparse, now I've moved all the Gaia-specific stuff to a dedicated page.

The question is really: How can a contributor actually contribute to Firefox 
OS, the non-Gaia parts, usefully?

On my list I've got:

* Gecko - this is pretty much the same as regular Firefox OS Gecko dev, but can 
someone comment on this, and help me outline what is different? What should I 
say here? Should we call out API writing/contributions specifically?
* Gonk - we currently have very little information on Gonk. What should I say 
about this? How can externals contribute?
* Porting Firefox OS to other devices - I'm sure it would be useful to give 
people some guidance on this, but what information should we provide?
* Knowing your way around the B2G build system - it would be great to provide a 
really detailed view of how it works, what it does at each stage, etc. So that 
developers can help with it, and fix building problems as they arise (there's 
been a lot of traffic on the mailing list about this kind of thing recently.)
* What other B2G customizations can be done that are useful to talk about?

I have started a google doc at

https://docs.google.com/a/mozilla.com/document/d/1Wn-nQSHCxJnudyA0XgkVORpCGGBMUW6fOosxEXMkZ8Y/edit#

Where I have started to collect useful notes. Please feel free to leave 
comments here, or reply to this mail.

I'd really love some team members who are experienced in these areas to give me 
some help on putting together some truly useful docs.

Thanks for listening,

Chris Mills
   Senior tech writer || Mozilla
developer.mozilla.org || MDN
   [email protected] || @chrisdavidmills

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox_OS/Developing_Gaia
[2] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox_OS/Developing_Firefox_OS

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