> On 30 Mar 2016, at 19:51, Kevin Grandon <[email protected]> wrote: > > Chris, > > Will the B2G docs continue to be supported from Mozilla's side? Is Mozilla's > support necessary for legacy docs on MDN?
The MDN team doesn’t have resources to provide full support to community projects on top of all the other stuff we have to do, so I’m intending to provide support and help, while having most of the editing/writing done by community members. > > I tried logging in to edit docs (first time in a while), and was greeted with > a message "We are sorry, but profile creation is currently disabled". This > was not a very good experience for a potential contributor, so I'm wondering > if b2g docs might be better somewhere like github? > This is because MDN was being hit by a really brutal automated spam attack, so we have been forced to disable account creation while we put anti-spam measures in place. We can create accounts for anyone that needs one in the meantime; this hopefully shouldn’t persist for too much longer — it is our dev team’s #1 priority right now. > Best, > Kevin > > On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 10:56 AM, Faramarz Rashed <[email protected]> wrote: > Chris, > Thank you for taking a lead here and cleaning up the documentation for the > project. This plan sounds good; additionally Porfirio (on CC) will be in > touch to make sure we’re aligned on the verbiage and places we can use > Firefox OS verses B2G. > > Thanks, > Faramarz > > > On Mar 30, 2016, at 6:37 AM, Chris Mills <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hi there everybody, > > > > I’ve been talking to Valentin today about B2G OS documentation, and the > > future of the Firefox OS documentation on MDN[0]. > > > > With work starting to go forward on the B2G OS soon (if not now), Valentine > > raised the question of where documentation about this project can go. > > Ideally, I’d like to see the existing documentation reused, rather than > > starting new things, but this would require a bit of reorganization. > > Ideally I think we should: > > > > 1. Rebrand all the FxOS docs to B2G,so we can make the current /Firefox_OS/ > > area of the site into a portal for all the knowledge around the B2G OS > > project. Hopefully I can find some people to help me clean up this area of > > the site, as I’m sure there is a whole bunch of stuff we ought to get rid > > of, or archive! > > > > 2. Move the Firefox OS TV docs[1] out of the Firefox OS area into its own > > section, as it will no longer fit under the B2G area after the proposed > > rebrand, despite being based on it; we’d probably put it under /Mozilla/, > > as it is a Mozilla project. It would make more sense to keep the docs > > modular like this, and then say “this is based on the B2G OS project”, if > > we need to make the connection clear. > > > > Thoughts? Who has got the authority to ok this? > > > > Chris Mills > > Senior tech writer || Mozilla > > developer.mozilla.org || MDN > > [email protected] || @chrisdavidmills > > > > [0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox_OS > > [1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox_OS/TV > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > dev-fxos mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-fxos > > _______________________________________________ > dev-fxos mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-fxos > _______________________________________________ dev-fxos mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-fxos
