On 27 Jun 2014, at 18:39, vampirefo <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thursday, June 26, 2014 8:37:42 AM UTC-4, Chris Mills wrote: >> 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 > > Firefox OS documentation is needed badly, if there were good documentation > firefox OS would take off, but lack of documentation is holding it back. ZTE > Open C is a good phone, and is cheap, this phone could really help increase > interest in Firefox OS, but the documentation on firefox os, is so bad only a > few people are able to upgrade their phone, so this kills interest in firefox > os and the phone. > > Most people won't be able to compile firefox, so no chance to upgrade, no > where is there an easy way to upgrade the phone, most people have already > messed up their phones, by either flashing the root OS or flashing one of the > oses provided by comebuy.com > > ZTE upgrade from their site which is just 1.3 but better than the 1.3 that > comes on the phone, can only be installed on the version that came with the > phone. > > I get around all this cause I created custom recovery and backup phone, > before installing any os, but most people can't do that either.
It has mainly been the ZTE phones that have caused problems, and I would like to improve the documentation to help people. Can you help me pin point where things start to go wrong with the Firefox OS build instructions[1] when you are trying to build for ZTE Open C, and then I can perhaps add some extra info to help people with that phone? The information we have already on the Open C[2] was supposed to have solved a lot of problems, and it makes me sad that people are still having such difficulties. I’ve tried to do what I can so far, but I can only add info that I’m given. Best regards, Chris [1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox_OS/Building_and_installing_Firefox_OS [2] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox_OS/Developer_phone_guide/ZTE_OPEN_C _______________________________________________ dev-b2g mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-b2g
