1463078 - Document removal of GCLI / Developer toolbar

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(DevTools Graveyard :: Graphic Commandline and Toolbar, enhancement, P2)

Description

[Soledad Penades [:sole] [:spenades]]

We need to document the removal of the GCLI starting on the ~18th of May 2018, and also provide pointers to alternatives to commands.

The obvious place to start updating is https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/GCLI

This spreadsheet has the list of commands plus available alternatives https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Zrdm-V9WAQ11I5oxfqCt_M0VvF24NEWnT93VrzPRglU/edit#gid=578856175

This document keeps track of the current status on the unshipping: https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vSh02ilZT6BwMnYJ2XC_DrrN7GoIWktNAFlYLvGlTMyM7KFelrB6DBWBQEsgHIIiOCH561TWcTBevBk/pub

Comment 1

[Soledad Penades [:sole] [:spenades]]

I've added a warning box on top of the https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/GCLI page, but it still needs to have the list of alternatives, etc.

Comment 2

[Yulia Startsev [:yulia]]

What are the next steps here?

Comment 3

[Soledad Penades [:sole] [:spenades]]

We need to document somewhere the availability of :screenshot in the console.

I don't think there are other user-facing changes so far (other than the removal of the GCLI). But we should document the alternatives when they're implemented (e.g. for media emulate or listen, etc).

Comment 4

[Firefox Bug Husbandry Bot]

Per bug 1491875, this component has been closed, and the affected code is being removed from Firefox. Closing this bug as incomplete.

Comment 5

[Irene Smith]

(In reply to Soledad Penades [:sole] [:spenades] from comment #3)
> We need to document somewhere the availability of :screenshot in the console.
> 
> I don't think there are other user-facing changes so far (other than the
> removal of the GCLI). But we should document the alternatives when they're
> implemented (e.g. for media emulate or listen, etc).

This has been done already. If that is the only explicit documentation task here for now, can we change this to dev-doc-complete and reopen it as needed or create other topics as related documentation becomes necessary?

Comment 6

[Soledad Penades [:sole] [:spenades]]

Absolutely! I just did. I agree we should create new topics and not reopen this one.