Closed Bug 270335 Opened 20 years ago Closed 16 years ago

An Extension Guide section on AMO

Categories

(addons.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Public Pages, enhancement)

Product:
addons.mozilla.org Graveyard
Component:
Public Pages
Platform:
x86
All
Type:
enhancement
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED FIXED

People

(Reporter: mozillabugs.3.maxchee, Unassigned)

References

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

After filing a few feature related bugs, I realized that it's probably more
productive to make Mozilla Update work better and make it more friendly to new
users. One of the ways to make it more friendly is to add a guide section to MU.
Here are some ideas for the articles we could put on:

-Infinite possibilities: Intro to extensions
-Extensions you must have to make the most out of Firefox
-How to make tabbed browsing work exactly like Maxthon, Opera etc.
-Where are my toolbars? Googlebar, yahoobar and other search bars for firefox

Inside the article, we should offer scripts to install groups of extensions (see
the installation page at spellbound.sf.net for more details) and links to
install them individually.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Not a bad idea, but not something i'm interested in doing at this time. Over to
nobody for some eager contributor who is interested to pick up.
Assignee: psychoticwolf → nobody
Severity: normal → enhancement
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
Bulk Moving Web Site bugs to new component.
(Filter: massumowebsitespam)
Component: Update → Web Site
Product: mozilla.org → Update
Version: other → unspecified
You mean asking the community to submit the articles? That would be a wonderful
idea! (I didn't expect any devs to write these articles anyways, they are busy
enough with the development of the new UMO). I am just asking the devs to put up
an articles section that is easy for new users to spot (perhaps a link on the
navigation bar and a section on the main page of UMO). After that's done, we
should hold an article contest on spreadfirefox and mozillazine (maybe 2-3 weeks
before the launch of the new UMO) to get people going.
(In reply to comment #0)
Either you write something yourself or we need a Wiki ;-)
(In reply to comment #4)
> (In reply to comment #0)
> Either you write something yourself or we need a Wiki ;-)

A wiki with the most popular articles syndicated on the main umo webpage would
probably be a good idea (I don't know if it's such a good idea to host both on
the same server though. I have concerns about the security issues related to
mediawiki)
We'll make use of the mozillazine wiki.
*** Bug 329508 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
AMO bugspam. Correcting QA contacts on OLD bugs (mozilla.update@update.bugs)

-> Correct QA contact (web-ui@add-ons.bugs)

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QA Contact: mozilla.update → web-ui
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Updating all the bugs which have "Update" or "UMO" in them.
Summary: An Extension Guide section on Mozilla Update → An Extension Guide section on AMO
Generally we want developer docs to be on the MDC Wiki - closing for now as we'll add more links from the Get involved page. See bug 442709
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 16 years ago
Depends on: 442709
Resolution: --- → FIXED
Product: addons.mozilla.org → addons.mozilla.org Graveyard
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