One thing that I have noticed after talking to many new contributors is
that, people are often overwhelmed by the large amount of the docs. They
look for quick results when they are starting off.
The idea of videos is great, but it would also help if we could have
something like a quick start page, that could outline the only basic steps
like:
1. The bootstrap command:
wget [.... bootstrap.py]
2. Clone mozilla-central:
hg clone http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/
3. Build the source:
./mach build
Once someone completes going through that, he will (most probably) have a
working build running. We can then point them to a second part of the quick
start that just says about creating a patch, like:
1. Create a new patch:
hg qnew [patchName]
2. Make your changes to the source and build with mach.
3. Update your patch file with:
hg qref
4. Upload to Bugzilla for review.
While this isn't the complete docs per se, but reducing the size will get
more people to read and try out these steps. We can always have a link to
the accompanying video guide and the MDN page with each step.
On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 3:55 AM, Till Schneidereit <t...@tillschneidereit.net
> wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 11:07 PM, <bbo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Sunday, November 3, 2013 12:02:15 PM UTC-5, Alexandre BM wrote:
> > > I see a lot of VS and .exes, any plans for development on Unix ? (make,
> > > gcc, gdb, g* tools ?)
> > > ~ rednaks
> >
> > Yes these are just starting videos, but I was planning to have linux and
> > osx (xcode etc) related videos as well. Eventually B2G development
> > specific videos as well.
> >
>
> This really is fantastic - I wish I'd had something like these videos when
> I started contributing. One suggestion I have is to concentrate on Eclipse.
> It's available on all platforms, and works quite well for working on
> SpiderMonkey and Gecko.
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