Morgan Landry wrote:
I'm new here as well, and that seems to be the problem. There is no one to tell you what to do or where to start. My suggestion is to search through last month's email and fix what people are complaining about. Or, find a page on mozilla.org that could use an update, and file it as a bug on bugzilla.This is a well-known problem we discussed a month or two back. As I recall, the consensus was to do three things to make contributing documentation easier:
1. Create a "map" of topics and available documentation with information about how accurate and up-to-date it is so we know what needs documenting and updating. Some conversants also suggested designating an "editor" who can manage the process and assign tasks.
2. Find a couple of people willing to apply docs updates filed into Bugzilla to the site.
3. Write documentation about how to use Doctor, the web tool for making and applying changes to the web site.
Of these three tasks the first is probably the most important. The only existing information of this type is way out-of-date:
http://mozilla.org/docs/mdp/docstat.html
Alex Vincent has been working on an updated version of this document, but I'm not sure where he's at.
Mitchell suggested in a recent email to me that she may tackle the third task. That leaves only the second one to do, and that's probably the lowest priority, since with Doctor it's now relatively easy to modify the site, and it makes more sense to just give editing access to the site for people who file a few good updates.
-myk
