Re: Web Developer Wiki

On Feb 11, 2005, at 9:33 AM, [email protected] wrote:

> Never seen MozRef before. Still lacking a bit of documentation, but it
> is only done by one person. If Mozilla documentation is to be of the
> same standard as Internet Explore, then a dedicated team is really
> needed.

Yes, I'm not nearly as far along as I would like to be.  My paid 
consulting work does cut into my MozRef time, though I am looking for 
corporate sponsors for the project.  I agree that a dedicated team 
would be very beneficial to providing good developer documentation, but 
I don't believe its a prerequisite.

My goal is to make the process of documenting this as simple and 
painless as possible, so the barrier to adding additional documentation 
and maintaining it is lower.

> Generally (always?) open source documentation is not as good as
> commercial software documentation as not many would like to do it (for
> free) and it can be very tedious to do.

That it is.   I've had server hardware and colocation hosting donated, 
and I've pitched my own hardware into it so far.  If I find sponsors, 
I'll either use that to decrease the number of days I work at my office 
to 3 or 4 days per week, so I have a few days dedicated to MozRef 
documentation.  Since thats not likely to happen in the near future, I 
work on this on weekends and evenings.

My current employer is kind enough to let me add documentation to the 
site for problems I run up against at work, but that happens less and 
less the more I learn about Mozilla's internals. :-\

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Michael Nachbaur <[email protected]>
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