935849 - Update policy section on mozilla.org

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(www.mozilla.org :: Pages & Content, defect)

Description

[Lawrence Mandel [:lmandel] (use needinfo)]

We have a number or "policy" documents that have been created around our products and interactions with partners. These policies are currently published in a variety of places - including the wiki and have different levels of oversight. I would like to propose that we create a space for policy documents under the mozilla.org domain in order to:

1. consolidate our policy documents
2. have a more official looking template (than the wiki) for publishing documents
3. place a somewhat higher bar on changes (the wiki is open to change by all)

Some examples of policy documents:
Firefox privacy policy: 
http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/legal/privacy/firefox.html
Performance regressions policy: 
http://www.mozilla.org/hacking/regression-policy.html
Firefox OS User Agent Partner Changes Policy:
https://wiki.mozilla.org/B2G/User_Agent/Partner_Changes_Policy
UA override list policy:
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Evangelism/UA_Override_List_Policy
B2G UA device model inclusion requirements:
https://wiki.mozilla.org/B2G/User_Agent/Device_Model_Inclusion_Requirements
Web API exposure policy/guidelines:
https://wiki.mozilla.org/User:Overholt/APIExposurePolicy

Comment 1

[Kohei Yoshino [:kohei]]

There is already the Official Mozilla Policies page :)
http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/governance/policies/

Comment 2

[Lawrence Mandel [:lmandel] (use needinfo)]

Excellent. Pretty much just what I was looking for. For reference, the source of this page is located at

https://github.com/mozilla/bedrock/blob/master/bedrock/mozorg/templates/mozorg/about/governance/policies.html

Two follow up questions:
1. Is there a template to use when creating a new policy to be housed under mozilla.org?
2. Are there any restrictions to listing policies on this page?

Comment 3

[Jennifer Bertsch [:jbertsch]]

Hi Lawrence - 

You could use this page as a template http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/governance/policies/security-group/tld-idn/

And any additional questions you have could be answered either by the Sandstone style guide:
http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/styleguide/websites/sandstone/

Or by a mozilla.org developer in the #www IRC channel - in particular you could ask sgarrity, craigcook, agibson, or jpetto

I'm happy to answer any additional questions.

Best,
Jen

Comment 4

[Lawrence Mandel [:lmandel] (use needinfo)]

Jishnu - Are there any restrictions to listing policies on the policies page on mozilla.org? Is there a process for publishing an official Mozilla policy?

Comment 5

[Lawrence Mandel [:lmandel] (use needinfo)]

Oh, and thank you Jennifer. With answers to the questions that I posed to Jishnu in comment 4, I think I have what I need to proceed.

Comment 6

[Jishnu Menon :jishnu]

Hi Lawrence - there is already a plan for most of these docs - some of them need to be hosted separately for each user case - let's please touch base before changing any of this.

The legal docs are undergoing a complete overhaul and the partner centric ones will be a part of a more comprehensive site for partners.

I'm more than happy to work with you on this but we should loop in all the relevant folks for each kind of policy/process doc.

Comment 7

[Lawrence Mandel [:lmandel] (use needinfo)]

Glad to hear that there is already a plan. Perhaps all that is needed is to ensure that we include some of the docs currently hosted on the wiki (they may already be included) and ensure there is a way to add new docs in the future. I'm happy to contribute where it makes sense. Please let me know how I can be of help.

Comment 8

[Jennifer Bertsch [:jbertsch]]

Hi-

I'm going to close this bug for now.  Let's re-open if/when we have concrete next steps.

Thanks!