On 11/3/2013 8:48 PM, Sankha Narayan Guria wrote: > 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. > This has been the point of the "Simple Firefox Build" page: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Simple_Firefox_build
I don't know if it's discoverable for all people, or if it meets the qualifications you've set out. -Ted _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
