Sprints Articles
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Help improve MDN docs: Sprint April 1-2
The last documentation sprint was so much fun, we couldn’t wait to do it again. So we’re holding another one next weekend, from April 1 at 14:00 UTC until April 2 at 23:59 UTC: This is a online sprint, meaning that people will participate from wherever they are, coordinating via IRC[1]. Please join us for […]
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Upcoming MDN doc sprints
After the huge success of our most recent documentation sprint for MDN, it seems too long to wait for the next planned sprint in June. So we’re squeezing an extra sprint into the schedule, on the weekend of April 1st and 2nd. Mark your calendars: Specific starting and ending times will be determined soon, probably […]
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MDN doc sprint was a huge success
More than 30 contributors from at least a dozen countries, touching approximately 300 documentation pages. Those are the results from the documentation sprint that started Friday, January 28 at 14:00 UTC. While the sprint was scheduled to end at midnight UTC on Saturday, some participants were still making updates on Sunday. This sprint provided a […]
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Write some docs, get an MDN t-shirt
As I mentioned in my post about ways you can help improve MDN in 2011, we are holding a virtual sprint to write documentation on MDN next week, January 28 to 29. “Virtual” means that there will not be an in-person meeting, but rather people will participate from wherever they are, discussing what we’re doing […]
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Help improve MDN in 2011
(That headline would have sounded cooler a year ago. Oh well.) In various conversations about the developer documentation on MDN, with people both within the Mozilla community and on the “outside”, I’ve discovered two common themes: Some people don’t know that MDN is a wiki that they could contribute to. Many people think that writing […]
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Web Standards Doc Sprint — Finis!
For the past three days, a small group of Mozillians met in Paris and, instead of enjoying the beautiful warm weather, insanely stayed inside and wrote documentation on web standards for the Mozilla Developer Network. We worked in the Mozilla Paris office on Saturday and Sunday, and then on Monday moved to La Cantine, around […]
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MDN Documentation Sprint for Web Standards
The weekend of October 9 to 11, we are holding our first ever documentation sprint, at the Mozilla Paris office. A documentation sprint is like a code sprint or hackfest, except that the focus is on writing docs instead of on writing code. In this case, the specific focus is documentation on the Mozilla Developer […]