1109072 - Detect, highlight and point users towards the existence of contribute.json

Status: NEW

(DevTools :: General, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Mike Hoye [:mhoye]]

See here: http://contribute.paas.allizom.org/

Fantastic idea, not that discoverable.

I would like a "contribute" button added to the Firefox burgermenu that works by:
- Automagically detect when a site has a contribute.json available.
- Lighting itself if one is one is available, and:
- Displaying whatever's in that json wodge in some sane and beautiful way.

Further, I think that button should be tucked away in the burgermenu in stock FF, but show in the toolbar by default in the Developer Edition.

Comment 1

[Mike Hoye [:mhoye]]

Adding peterbe, as this follows on from a discussion we had at Mozlandia.

Comment 2

[Peter Bengtsson [:peterbe]]

We might want to do something like you do with the shortcut icon. Iff there is a `<link rel="shortcut icon" href="foo.png">` then it reads that instead of `/favicon.ico`. 

This might be useful for the likes of some project that don't have a dedicated subdomain that maps to a specific project. E.g. something like:

<link rel="contribute.json" href="//other.domain/mycontribute.json">

Comment 3

[Mike Hoye [:mhoye]]

See here: https://github.com/mhoye/muditanist

for work in progress on an addon that does this.