On Sat, 23 Jul 2011 12:47:41 +0100, Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote: > This may seem a naive question, but how on earth can those > several thousand preferences not already be documented ? How
This is open source. Developers hate documenting anything. Often the only documentation is the source code that uses the preference. > can a volunteer usefully contribute to the project unless what > is already accomplished is properly documented ? Surely new > volunteers aren't expected to work out for themselves how > everything works, are they ? Either that or ask a more experienced developer. Fortunately documentation is getting better and Mozilla has a paid technical writer to (try to) keep developer.mozilla.org up to date. Good news DevMo is a wiki so anyone can and does contribute articles. Bad news anyone *does* contribute articles some of which contain misleading information and misunderstandings. > I do understand that this is > a distributed project, and that conventional ideas concerning > project management may not be entirely relevant, but I would Project management? What's that? A recent volunteer (jtek) says he has some project management experience. Perhaps we can get him involved at this end of the project. > have thought (and expected) that everything accomplished so > far would be properly documented so that those who volunteer > to continue with the work will have a sound basis from which > to start. So we also need documentation volunteers. Jens is in charge of the in-app help and the variour FAQs on the seamonkey website. Ewong has (in between other things) been writing some documentation for the in-app SeaMonkey help viewer but we need more volunteers. All you need is some basic knowledge of XHTML and of course some understanding on how SeaMonkey actually works! >> Alternatively find someone who has already done all that. >> <https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/whats-that-preference/> > > Sadly that potential solution, interesting though it is, is > apparently not relevant to this lists ("Seamonkey-support"), > as it appears to work solely with a different product > (Firefox 7 and later). Should be a SMOP to make it work in SeaMonkey. Phil -- Philip Chee <[email protected]>, <[email protected]> http://flashblock.mozdev.org/ http://xsidebar.mozdev.org Guard us from the she-wolf and the wolf, and guard us from the thief, oh Night, and so be good for us to pass. _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
