Websites/Mozilla.org/Archive/Contribute/AllHandsCodingSession

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Details

  • Wed, April 6, 2:00 PM Pacific
  • Very Good Very Mighty (3rd floor, near JS pit)
  • Conference call: extension 8605
    • 650-903-0800 x92 Conf# 8605 (US/INTL)
    • 1-800-707-2533 (pin 369) Conf# 8605 (US)
    • The number is stolen from the platform meetings, so ask on IRC if you have a problem
    • join irc.mozilla.org #mozillians for back channel

Suggested Reading

Summary of last week's discussions on dev-planning

Experience reports

Agenda

Discussing improving engagement with new contributors, specifically related to coding and the Mozilla tree.

Contributor engagement funnel

  • good first bugs
  • mentor assignment
  • landing page

experience reports

  • seamonkey?
  • l10n?
  • tabcandy?
  • ckaiser?
  • sfink?
  • jdm?
  • paul biggar
  • others?

Mentoring

  • how-to documentation
  • experience reports
  • volunteers + volunteer page

Documentation

  • beginner documentation
  • getting started with the tree
  • formats (MDN?)
  • tools listings + guides

metrics

  • r?
  • [commit-needed]
  • contributors needing responses
  • Metrics/dmose have a metrics dashboard


Pain points

  • make -f client.mk build
  • mozconfig
  • enable-application
  • directory name
  • unassigned r?
  • turning point of finding the right committer
    • document this
  • fear of claiming bugs
    • bug squatting
  • tryerver access
  • outside "regular work hours"
  • bugzilla
  • following progress/workflows
  • removing bottlenecks
    • tryserver
    • reviewers
    • approvals
    • [checkin-needed]
    • contributor agreement
  • -u flag (!!!)

volunteers!

  • (any tasks not have a volunteer?)

collaboration

  • mailing list/irc
  • future meetings
  • bugzilla category/tracking bugs
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