What can I do for Mozilla?
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What can I do for Mozilla?
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Re: What can I do for Mozilla?
#2Some of the questions are misleadingly worded (e.g. "what's your favorite language?" should probably read "is this your favorite language?"), but something along these lines has the potential to be brilliantly useful for any sprawling open source project that depends on engaging volunteers.
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#3I would love if more large projects had pages like this.
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#4would be nice to have a "none of the above" option for people who A) Do not use those languages or B) are not programmers who would like to help
Every project can do with documentation help etc.
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#5Any specific reason why the Design Specs are hosted on Dropbox?
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#6Good work, with one issue. I don't know if the author would like to address it, but if he would then I think he'd be able to capture more folks along the way.
The page assumes that they only need programmers. If you don't know any languages and are not interested in learning, you can help in other ways like on mozillazine and irc. Artwork, etc etc. It may be good to work through how the buttons/layout should work for this, but overall I think you'd get more involvement in that fashion.
Other than that, I think this is pretty neat. I may copy it.
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#7I actually really like the idea of this type of site. More open source projects should have one. The entry point into getting a project that you want to help with can be a little tricky. On a personal note, this probably was the wrong time for me to see this site and want to help since the latest Firefox update this morning was a serious dud on my computer.
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#8If you select PHP, you get "So you like your variable names to include dollar signs? That's cool, everyone misses Perl once in a while." Making smartass remarks about their language of choice is not a great way to initiate a relationship with a developer.
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#9If you select PHP, you get "So you like your variable names to include dollar signs? That's cool, everyone misses Perl once in a while." Making smartass remarks about their language of choice is not a great way to initiate a relationship with a developer.
It says some similarly smartass remark about every language you choose. I like it, and think it fits in well with the tone of the rest of the site.
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#10If you select PHP, you get "So you like your variable names to include dollar signs? That's cool, everyone misses Perl once in a while." Making smartass remarks about their language of choice is not a great way to initiate a relationship with a developer.
It makes remarks for all the languages. I think it is part of the appeal of the website.