1102987 - Add "Document" to the first-run page for Nightly's list of ways to participate in the project

Status: NEW

(www.mozilla.org :: Pages & Content, defect)

Description

[Eric Shepherd [:sheppy]]

Attachment: Screenshot of the first run page

The Nightly first-run page has three boxes to encourage its users to join the Mozilla project by including three boxes: Test, Code, and Localize.

I think it would be very useful to add "Document" to this list.

We've had a discussion about it on firefox-dev of late, and there seems to be agreement that this is a good idea.

Some suggestions were to either replace "Localize" with "Document" for en-US users, or to randomly select three of the four boxes to display each load. Of course, the final call on that is up to design and webdev.

Given the importance of good tech documentation, and the fact that Nightly users are likely to be among the best candidates to help make our docs for new technology more thorough and better, not using this page to promote the docs project is a shame.

Comment 1

[Jennifer Bertsch [:jbertsch]]

Hi Pascal and Flod-

What would you think about having "Document" instead of "Localize" for the en-us page?  Can you tell if you are getting much pick up from the en-US page vs the locales directly?

Thx,
Jen

Comment 2

[Francesco Lodolo [:flod]]

I don't like the idea of losing Localization in the part of the page with higher visibility: 
* This design was born also to make people with technical skills aware of l10n work, and maybe get in touch to help. 
* We have tons of international users stuck on en-US, since l10n builds are far from easy to discover (I even had 2 or 3 people from my own team unaware of that...).

I personally like the idea of picking 3 random choices from a bucket. That wouldn't require changes to the layout, and would help us in case we need to add a fifth element in the future.

Comment 3

[Pascal Chevrel:pascalc (PTO until April 26)]

(In reply to Jennifer Bertsch [:jbertsch] from comment #1)
> Hi Pascal and Flod-
> 
> What would you think about having "Document" instead of "Localize" for the
> en-us page?  Can you tell if you are getting much pick up from the en-US
> page vs the locales directly?
> 
> Thx,
> Jen

Note that localization is also about documenting since we also translate MDN and SUMO. 

As Flod said, we have many non-English people using en-US nightly because that's the only locale we offer for download publicly and we wouldn't want to loose the outreach we are currently doing to this audience to propose them to join the l10n teams. We don't have a way to track the effectiveness of this page, my anocdetical evidence that it has an effect is that every time we ship a new release and we bump the release number, this page shows up on Nightly builds and we have a couple of new subscriptions to the French mailing list. There is no proof that the facts are related but I suspect that they are. Alterning 'document' and 'localize' CTAs on en-US, maybe client-side in javascript seems like a good compromise to me.