Richard Fleming wrote: >> 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. 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.
There is a documentation module (at least in bugzilla). You may want to take a look at http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?product=Documentation&bug_status=unconfirmed,new,assigned,reopened Grab yourself a few and work on them :-) > 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. In my experience with a volunteer projects it is probably best to work on a prototype first and then ask others for help and contributions. Without that people will focus too much on administrative stuff instead of real documentation. > 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. Yes, we have a marketing module, but as I said before: Work on a prototype first and then talk with some marketing people. It will help you focus on the real important tasks first. -- Simon Paquet http://sipaq.blogspot.com - Simon's Mozilla Blog _______________________________________________ mozilla-documentation mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/mozilla-documentation
