Cleaning up the Android wiki

Kevin Brosnan kbrosnan at mozilla.com
Fri Sep 11 20:15:27 UTC 2015


We should really be on MDN. It is where all the other build docs are. ex
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Simple_Firefox_build

Kevin

On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 9:40 AM, Nicholas Alexander <nalexander at mozilla.com>
wrote:

> Hi liuche, hi others,
>
> Thanks for doing this!
>
> On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 7:27 PM, Chenxia Liu <liuche at mozilla.com> wrote:
>
>> Hey all,
>>
>> Based on feedback from our interns (our wiki for new contributors covers
>> too much and is very intimidating), I did a rough refactor of our Mobile
>> wiki.
>>
>> All that information on the main page is now separated into 3 smaller
>> pages:
>>
>> - getting a build running (the original page) -
>> https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Fennec/Android/
>>
>
> I will try to unify this with the "Develop Fennec with IDEs" page, which
> is due a refresh.
>
>
>> - common tips for contributing code (where to find code, basic debugging,
>> how to write a simple robocop test, etc) -
>> https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Fennec/Android/CommonTips
>>
>> - advanced topics (configuring builds, multilocale builds, advanced
>> debugging, etc - basically everything else) -
>> https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Fennec/Android/AdvancedTopics
>>
>> I tried to structure these into levels of information that a new
>> contributor might need to know, with a mind to not be too overwhelming. Of
>> these, the Advanced Topics is the most messy, but this is mainly because it
>> really does cover a wide range of topics.
>>
>
> I have had some feedback that folks (especially folks *inside* Mozilla)
> expect this documentation to be on MDN.  Do people have strong opinions
> about Wiki vs MDN?  Frankly, I am thrilled that we have a *functional* Wiki
> community (good content, lots of maintainers) -- and don't want to damage
> that culture.
>
> Best,
> Nick
>
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