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Revision as of 17:09, 20 August 2013
Get Involved - START HERE
Why thanks for coming by to look at ways you can contribute to the Mozilla project!
Here's a couple of links that might help you get started:
- For people who like to code What can you do for Mozilla?
- For people who would like to see the variety of possible contributions Contributions by Time Available
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The rest of this page is rather out of date and in need of a refresh, keeping it here for posterity (for now).
Getting Started on the Firefox Front-end
- Overview
- composed of c++, js, xul, css
- dev process driven by bugzilla
- code review and unit tests required
- big features driven by feature pages
- results measurements (perf, unit tests)
- How
- Contributing to the core
- Prototyping via add-ons
Resources
- Mozilla Developer Network
- Mozilla Developer's Cheatsheet by Brian Bondy
- MXR - Mozilla Source Code Cross-reference
- DXR - Newer Cross-reference
- Bugzilla
- "Bugzilla for Humans" video, by Johnath Nightingale
- Bugzilla Tweaks Add-on
- BugzillaJS Add-on
- Presentations/Talks
- From Web-dev to Firefox Hacker - slides from a David Dahl's talk at MozCamp Asia in Kuala Lumpur
- Adding a Feature to Firefox, by Paolo Amadini
- Videos
Need Help?
- IRC (list appropriate channels, etc)
- News/Google groups for Firefox dev
Not a Programmer?
- Testing
- Documentation
- Support
- Communication
TODO
Need to include:
- who to talk to about what (ux, core features, toolkit stuff, platform specific, link to mobile gateway)
- build instructions
- firefox reviewers page
- firefox code review page
- module owners page
- where to report a bug
- which irc channels
- list main & related bugzilla components (linked)
- what needs help? (cleanup page)
- what's our highest priorities? features page
- links to good first bugs
- https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Cleanup
- hacking Firefox MDN page
- https://etherpad.mozilla.org/firefox-get-involved
- https://etherpad.mozilla.org/fx-tipsandtricks
- https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Dev_Cheatsheet
- bugs ahoy
- ohloh and any other social competition angles