Most contributions would probably be welcomed, but if you want to help, you're going to have to be very much "self-starting" (also self-managing, and you'll have to prompt people to review/use your documentation). What kind of documentation do you want to write? Were you thinking of code documentation? Writing for the Mozilla user help system? Check bugzilla for bugs in the documentation area and see if you could help with any of them.
Well, I've also received an email from the owner of the Help Systems module. It appears that there are no documentation writers for Mozilla. All of them once working for Netscape, but no longer. Sad really.
What I was hoping to contribute to was the core user documentation for Mozilla. Yes, it's a web browswer, and how hard can it be to use one. Being a Sr. Systems Admin for the past few years, I've come to learn that some people find browsers incredibly hard to use.
Since light has been shed that there are no tech writers of any kind (at least on Mozilla), depending on the situation it might appear that a documentation module would have to be started up to address all of the documentation issues for all of the mozilla.org products. Hear me out, some of you that are more senior, please feel free to correct any lapses in judgement, etc.
A core documentation team is created. Their responsibility is for creating style sheets, keeping glossaries of terms, and in general things that are common across all platforms and all product streams.
Using these guidelines created by the core group, individual product streams emerge for released versions of Camino, Mozilla, Firebird, Thunderbird, etc. This way, all documentation has the same look, the same feel as the rest, making it easier for sys admins, and end users alike to read the different product docs.
I don't know if mozilla has a marketing dept., but if so, the two would have to work together on issues of trademarks, and other corporate branding issues.
I'm willing to take on this beast o' burden if anyone else is willing to help. :)
-- Have a good one
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