<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div>Hi,<br><br></div>It has been seen that many of the new contributors are overwhelmed the sheer content of the docs. But essentially three steps are required to build Firefox and run it. If we could put them up in a short and precise way something like:<br>
<br></div>1. Get the dependencies.<br></div> wget <blah blah> // the bootstrap.py command<br><br></div>2. Clone the repo.<br></div> hg clone ....<br><br></div>3. Start the build.<br></div> ./mach build<br>
<br></div>This could help improve the conversion ratio of the people who try reading the docs and are actually building the code.<br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 1:30 AM, Lukas Blakk <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lsblakk@mozilla.com" target="_blank">lsblakk@mozilla.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">I see, that makes sense.<div><br></div><div>In that case it would be great to get some copy to that effect which helps distinguish "Mozilla has great projects to work on, one of them is Firefox, and this is your portal for all things Firefox helping".</div>
<div><br></div><div>One idea might be to fork the <a href="http://whatcanidoformozilla.org" target="_blank">whatcanidoformozilla.org</a> and have a sub-set of bugs tagged to show up in <a href="http://whatcanidoforfirefox.org" target="_blank">whatcanidoforfirefox.org</a></div>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>-Lukas</div></font></span><div><div class="h5"><div><br></div><div><div><div>On Aug 19, 2013, at 12:57 PM, Gavin Sharp <<a href="mailto:gavin@gavinsharp.com" target="_blank">gavin@gavinsharp.com</a>> wrote:</div>
<br><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">Yes, I am aware of those. But I think those are solving a different problem - they have a wider scope of helping contributors to "all of Mozilla" (or for the latter at least "all of Mozilla development"). In my view, the Firefox get involved page should be about contributing to the Firefox desktop browser front-end project specifically, and the contents should be tailored to that (who to talk to, where to find us, specific discussion venues, etc.).<br>
<br>Gavin<br> </div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 12:33 PM, Lukas Blakk <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lsblakk@mozilla.com" target="_blank">lsblakk@mozilla.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div>Are you already familiar with <a href="http://www.mozilla.org/contribute" target="_blank">http://www.mozilla.org/contribute</a> (run by David Boswell, I believe) and Josh Matthews (and others) page <a href="http://whatcanidoformozilla.org/" target="_blank">http://whatcanidoformozilla.org/</a> (which accepts patches)?</div>
<div><br></div><div><a href="https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Get_Involved" target="_blank">https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Get_Involved</a> is definitely out of date and we could point to the pages above for now while taking the time to go deep and get a better understanding of where people land the first time they look. In the short term, promote some of the newer efforts above to get people hooked in.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I'm going to just edit that wiki page right now and then let watch the discussion grow - this is a great topic and a worthy cause, perhaps a fun Summit hack session too?</div><span><font color="#888888"><div>
<br></div><div>-Lukas</div><div><br></div></font></span><div><br><div><div><div><div>On Aug 19, 2013, at 11:12 AM, Gavin Sharp <<a href="mailto:gavin@gavinsharp.com" target="_blank">gavin@gavinsharp.com</a>> wrote:</div>
<br></div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div><a href="https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Get_Involved" target="_blank">https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Get_Involved</a> <br><br>has been around for a while, but has fallen a bit out of date and isn't quite as polished as I would like.<br>
<br></div>I think it's pretty important that we have a good "gateway" into contributing to Firefox development, and I think that page could serve that purpose. It should be fairly high-level, I think - linking to other existing resources, and providing context about how and why they are useful to Firefox developers.<br>
<br>The mobile team has a page that I think is better than ours:<br><br><a href="https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Get_Involved" target="_blank">https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Get_Involved</a><br><br></div><div>Who's interested in helping improve our page? We could start by shamelessly ripping off a lot of the Mobile team's work, but I'm also interested in ideas for improving the page further, and discussion about who the target audience should be, how we can improve the contributor "funnel", etc.<br>
</div><div><br></div>Gavin<br></div></div></div><div>
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