Socorro's documentation is built by and hosted on ReadTheDocs as is documentation for many Mozilla projects. ReadTheDocs uses "ethical advertising" to fund the infrastructure. They talk more about that here:
https://docs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/advertising/ethical-advertising.html I don't think their advertising model goes against Mozilla's mission. I do think that ReadTheDocs provides a service to open source projects--including many of Mozilla's projects--that's invaluable and helps us immensely. I don't know offhand if we currently support them or not. If we don't, we really should. I'm pretty sure we have in the past. /will On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 3:54 AM Rob Sayre via governance <governance@lists.mozilla.org> wrote: > > Hi! > > I had occasion to look around Socorro, and I noticed the documentation has > ads. Why is this? At first, I thought I might have happened on random > shovelware, but it seems that > > https://github.com/mozilla-services/socorro > > links to > > https://socorro.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ > > I named Socorro and the "collector", which is what I was looking at. I was > surprised to see a banner ad on the docs for this software. There are > probably no lines of code written by me left, but it is nevertheless > troubling. > > It doesn't seem consistent with Mozilla's mission to serve static > documentation with ads. For example, MDN doesn't work this way. > > thanks, > Rob > _______________________________________________ > governance mailing list > governance@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance _______________________________________________ governance mailing list governance@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance