Articles having tag: DOCS

State of the Docs, May 9th, 2012

By rights, today’s edition of “State of the Docs” should be a little light, since it has been only a week and a half since a very productive documentation sprint. But our amazing documentation contributors collectively do not rest, and so...

MDN downtime on May 8th, 2012

By Janet Swisher

Update 2012-05-08: Thanks to last-minute magic by Mozilla IT, MDN won’t be completely unavailable after all. However, it will be running on a single virtual machine rather than three physical servers, so expect worse than usual performance during the...

MDN First steps

By Janet Swisher

This is a guest post by Jérémie Patonnier. This article was originally published in French. For two years now, Jérémie has been an active contributor to MDN. He organizes short doc sprints each Wednesday evening at the Mozilla Paris office....

Doc sprint in [insert California cliché]

By Janet Swisher

The last weekend in April saw yet another amazingly productive documentation sprint for MDN. A group of community members gathered at the Mozilla spaces in California, while others contributed remotely. The in-person group worked on Friday in Mozilla’s...

State of the Docs, April 24, 2012

By Janet Swisher

The following is a sample of the changes to the documentation on MDN in the past four weeks. We expect a large flurry of activity during the Documentation sprint this weekend. If you’re in the Bay Area, you’re welcome to join in person for any part...

Wiki Wednesday: April 18, 2012

By Eric Shepherd

Here are today’s Wiki Wednesday articles! If you know about these topics, please try to find a few minutes to look over these articles that are marked as needing technical intervention and see if you can fix them up. You can do so either by logging into...

State of the Docs, March 30, 2012

By Janet Swisher

This post got stuck in Drafts without getting published. Publishing now for the record. Tristan Nitot wrote a blog post describing how MDN does documentation the Mozilla way. It also gives a good summary of ways that you can help out. Upcoming events Plans...

State of the Docs, March 16, 2012

By Janet Swisher

Documentation activity on MDN continues apace, with lots of work in the French localization, and a focus on CSS docs. Web standards docs Vikash Agrawal added a code example to HTML <figure>. David Baron clarified the standardization status of several...

Helping with the MDN: what about linking to us?

By Jean-Yves Perrier

We are working toward writing the best documentation about the Open Web. That’s a huge task but, day by day, our docs improve. Javascript is already considered an excellent resource, our CSS reference is now in pretty good shape, and a lot of work goes...

State of the docs, March 2, 2012

By Janet Swisher

To organize and prioritize documentation work on Mozilla Developer Network, we are setting up a system for topic drivers. The person who is the driver for each topic area will prioritize the work for that subject and help ensure that things get written when...