1. State of the Docs, May 9th, 2012

    • by Janet Swisher • Docs, MDN • No comments yet

    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 there is still lots Read more…

  2. MDN downtime on May 8th, 2012

    • by Janet Swisher • Demo Studio, Dev Derby, Docs, MDN • 1 comment

    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 time frame described below. Mozilla Developer Read more…

  3. MDN First steps

    • by Janet Swisher • Docs, MDN • 4 comments

    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. During those events, people ask Read more…

  4. Doc sprint in [insert California cliché]

    • by Janet Swisher • Docs, MDN • No comments yet

    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 Mountain View headquarters, then spent Saturday and Read more…

  5. State of the Docs, April 24, 2012

    • by Janet Swisher • Docs, MDN • 1 comment

    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 Read more…

  6. State of the Docs, March 30, 2012

    • by Janet Swisher • Docs, MDN • 2 comments

    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 are Read more…

  7. State of the Docs, March 16, 2012

    • by Janet Swisher • Docs, MDN • No comments yet

    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 CSS properties, such as -moz-background-inline-policy, Read more…

  8. State of the docs, March 2, 2012

    • by Janet Swisher • Docs, MDN • 2 comments

    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 appropriate. Read more…

  9. Save the Date: MDN Hack Day Comes to NYC on March 24

    • by Havi Hoffman • Event, MDN • No comments yet

    A bunch of us Mozilla Developer Network folks — web developers, technical writers, developer evangelists and cat herders like me — will be hosting MDN’s first Hack Day in the great city of New York. Like many teams who work together at Mozilla, we’re geographically Read more…

  10. State of the Docs, February 16, 2012

    • by Janet Swisher • Docs, MDN • No comments yet

    The ramped-up level of documentation contributions that started in January is surviving longer than most New Year’s resolutions. Keep it up! And as ever, thanks to everyone who contributed, whether you’re mentioned here or not! Help wanted Michael Deal contributed a great example page that Read more…