697291 - Need to reshoot the Builder tutorial video

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Add-on SDK Graveyard :: Documentation, defect, P2)

Description

[Will Bamberg [:wbamberg]]

The video tutorial at https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/developers/builder uses Google's Translate API, which will stop working on December 1 (http://code.google.com/apis/language/translate/overview.html).

The tutorial in the SDK docs is replaced by the fix for bug 661857, but the video version also needs to be updated, either using the same content as in the docs, or using some other example.

Comment 1

[David Mason [:dcm :dmason]]

Copying in Dan Horner as he should know and coordinate

Comment 2

[Dan Horner]

Hey Guys - can I have some suggestions for another example we can use? Happy to run with this if we have any obvious ideas.

Comment 3

[David Mason [:dcm :dmason]]

Dan - we actually have a new example that will land in 1.3. Will can point us to a pre-released version if we need it.

Comment 4

[Will Bamberg [:wbamberg]]

Probably the easiest way to see the bare bones of the new tutorial is at github: https://github.com/mozilla/addon-sdk/blob/master/doc/dev-guide-source/addon-development/implementing-simple-addon.md.

If you want the nice version with screenshots and stuff, you'll need to download and install the latest SDK: https://github.com/mozilla/addon-sdk and run the docs locally, because we don't host nightly docs builds.

It's not the most exciting example in the world.

Comment 5

[David Mason [:dcm :dmason]]

I'm of the opinion that this video doesn't actually need to go away. The video focuses more on using the Builder and showing off its features. Thats whats important for this one. I doubt that people will try to copy the code from this to follow along.

Meanwhile, we can shoot a new one and use the newer tutorial for it. Then we are free to focus on whatever is deemed most important.

Comment 6

[Daniel Buchner [:dbuc]]

I agree with Dave. Plus, we could always tack on a new URL to the fade-out at the end of the video that points to a better, more current example.

Comment 7

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

Closing this as it's apparent no work is being done here