848095 - Release notes should feature a Community Contributions section.

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(www.mozilla.org :: Pages & Content, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Mike Hoye [:mhoye]]

Right now, there's a link to a list of "new Mozillians" off the community section of the main blog, but we have a ton of information about what new contributions to Firefox that were made by non-employees have shipped in this version.

I'd that information to be right there in the release notes in its own section saying "Community Contributions": User name, bugs fixed, description of the bugs. These contributors deserve a lot more sunlight than they're getting.

Thanks!

Comment 1

[Alex Keybl [:akeybl]]

(In reply to Mike Hoye [:mhoye] from comment #0)
> Right now, there's a link to a list of "new Mozillians" off the community
> section of the main blog, but we have a ton of information about what new
> contributions to Firefox that were made by non-employees have shipped in
> this version.

Is this info readily accessible?

> I'd that information to be right there in the release notes in its own
> section saying "Community Contributions"

dboswell - does this fall into scope of your posts?

>: User name, bugs fixed, description
> of the bugs. These contributors deserve a lot more sunlight than they're
> getting.

Perhaps on the buglist (https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/19.0/releasenotes/buglist.html) but the release notes themselves are meant to be mostly user facing.

Comment 2

[David Boswell]

> > I'd that information to be right there in the release notes in its own
> > section saying "Community Contributions"
> 
> dboswell - does this fall into scope of your posts?

This sounds like a nice evolution of the couple of Firefox contribution posts we've done recently.  I'd be happy to work with Mike and others in the Coding Contribute Group to refine the contribution information we'd like to highlight.
 
> Perhaps on the buglist
> (https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/19.0/releasenotes/buglist.html) but
> the release notes themselves are meant to be mostly user facing.

I think there is a case to make for having a dedicated section for this information.

For users, we do want to communicate that Mozilla is a public benefit organization and some high level information about contributions would help get that message across.

We could then link off to more detailed blog posts for the audience of people who are interested in more of the specifics.

Comment 3

[Mike Hoye [:mhoye]]

"...the release notes themselves are meant to be mostly user facing."

We should absolutely be thanking our community members for their contributions in a user-facing way. This is important; in fact, that a community member, not a paid employee, fixed some bug deserves as much attention as the bug getting fixed at all.

Comment 4

[Josh Matthews [:jdm]]

This information is now available, so we should actively pursue doing this for the next release.

Comment 5

[Mike Hoye [:mhoye]]

Agreed. I'll compile them, and I've booked a meeting for the 5th to make sure we've Caught Them All.