1151461 - Create a landing page on developer.mozilla.org for the start page in SeaMonkey MailNews

Status: NEW

(SeaMonkey :: Project Organization, defect)

Description

[Philip Chee]

Create a landing page at:
https://developer.mozilla.org/docs/Mozilla/SeaMonkey/MailNews
We can start by copying the Thunderbird page on DevMo and adapt it for SeaMonkey:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Thunderbird

(In Bug 1140353 comment #1)
> http://mxr.mozilla.org/comm-central/source/suite/locales/en-US/chrome/
> mailnews/start.dtd?rev=d2cf2e0eba3e#32
> 
> The link points to <a href="http://www.mozilla.org/mailnews/">
> 
> This is the archived version:
> http://www-archive.mozilla.org/mailnews/
> http://web.archive.org/web/20090627212956/http://www.mozilla.org/mailnews/
> Sometime in 2009 a server redirect was added pointing to:
> http://web.archive.org/web/20100626084552/https://developer.mozilla.org/en/
> Thunderbird
> https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Thunderbird
> 
> http://www-archive.mozilla.org/mailnews/ This was extremely out of date even
> in 2008
> 
> Possible fix:
> 1. Create a similar landing page https://developer.mozilla.org/SeaMonkey
> 2. Update the link in ../chrome/mailnews/start.dtd

Comment 1

[Rainer Bielefeld]

(In reply to Philip Chee from comment #0)
> We can start by copying the Thunderbird page on DevMo and adapt it for
> SeaMonkey:
> https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Thunderbird

We can do so, and the advantage is that users can subscribe easily if they want to contribute.
Disadventages are:
a) There is no "SeaMonkey Zone similar to 
   <http://www-archive.mozilla.org/mailnews/>, needs to be created with
   artwork and so on if that info should be user-friendly
a1) There even is no Thunderbird zone, can we be sure that a Seamonkey Zone
    will be accepted?

b) So I currently would prefer to make the SeaMonkey area in the Wiki some more 
   homely (as a very first step I added a logo, but we should have something much 
   more distinctive

Has there already been discussion and decision where we should have such documentation. An Alternative also might be <http://www.seamonkey-project.org/>,
but it will be difficult to get editors for that.

Comment 2

[Philip Chee]

> We can do so, and the advantage is that users can subscribe easily if they
> want to contribute.
> Disadventages are:
> a) There is no "SeaMonkey Zone similar to 
>    <http://www-archive.mozilla.org/mailnews/>, needs to be created with
>    artwork and so on if that info should be user-friendly
> a1) There even is no Thunderbird zone, can we be sure that a Seamonkey Zone
>     will be accepted?

It's a wiki. For developers. Setting up a SeaMonkey Zone is fine.

> b) So I currently would prefer to make the SeaMonkey area in the Wiki some
> more homely (as a very first step I added a logo, but we should have something
> much more distinctive

I have access to KaiRo's archive of SeaMonkey artwork. Let me know what you need. But this should not block setting up the pages.

> Has there already been discussion and decision where we should have such
> documentation. An Alternative also might be
> <http://www.seamonkey-project.org/>,
> but it will be difficult to get editors for that.
Yes it will be difficult as that site is not wiki driven. Let's start with developer.mozilla.org and not over-think the problem.

Comment 3

[Rainer Bielefeld]

(In reply to Philip Chee from comment #2)
> It's a wiki. For developers. Setting up a SeaMonkey Zone is fine.

I already did some smaller contributions to <https://developer.mozilla.org>, so I can help next week, if nobody does before. I have some more knowledge with Mediawiki, but I am afraid with that wiki I can not help with artwork or so to create some "SeaMonkey corporate Design" with a nice logo like firefox_logo-new.png and similar.

Comment 4

[mrwislr]

Hi Rainer, I'll help out if you would like some assistance.

Comment 5

[Philip Chee]

I have started a stub article at:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/SeaMonkey
I just copied the header from:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Thunderbird
You can help by adapting the rest of the Thunderbird page to SeaMonkey.

Comment 6

[Rainer Bielefeld]

Unfortunately I currently can't help transferring information. Half of TB page is definitively unrelated to SM, rest no area where I have skills. And a simpmle copy/past will not help much.

Comment 7

[Rainer Bielefeld]

Assignee due to facts