diff --git a/src/dev/index.en.html b/src/dev/index.en.html index da89e773e508b6f41f0a80b835ce5f7cf4118e73_c3JjL2Rldi9pbmRleC5lbi5odG1s..3381ac16d29940eed867a7df781dc5620a4f2d8b_c3JjL2Rldi9pbmRleC5lbi5odG1s 100644 --- a/src/dev/index.en.html +++ b/src/dev/index.en.html @@ -16,6 +16,47 @@ <body> <h1>SeaMonkey Development Resources</h1> <p> -The SeaMonkey Project is constantly in need of developers. If you want to help, you can find some resources here. +The SeaMonkey Project is constantly in need of developers, testers, marketers +and other contributors to our success. +If you want to help, you can find some resources here. +</p> + +<p>Our <a href="get-involved">Getting Involved with SeaMonkey</a> +page is another good entry point to helping out our project, as well as the +<a href="http://wiki.mozilla.org/SeaMonkey:Home_Page">SeaMonkey pages on the +Mozilla wiki</a>. +</p> + +<ul class="toc"> +<li><a href="#development">Code Development</a></li> +<li><a href="#testing">Testing</a></li> +<li><a href="#marketing">Marketing And Other Contributions</a></li> +</ul> + +<h2 id="development">Code Development</h2> + +<p> +As we're part of the +<a href="http://www.mozilla.org/">Mozilla</a> project, most of the +<a href="http://www.mozilla.org/developer/">mozilla.org developer pages</a> +also apply to SeaMonkey. +</p> + +<p> +The SeaMonkey project and source code is divided into several areas, we have +a <a href="project-areas">list of SeaMonkey project areas</a> available that +also contains people ("owners" and "peers") responsible for those. +</p> + +<p> +If you have already submitted patches to Bugzilla, you might be interested in +our <a href="review-and-flags">review and flag policies</a> that apply to such +patches. +</p> + +<p> +The Mozilla tinderbox service also has information on the +<a href="http://tinderbox.mozilla.org/showbuilds.cgi?tree=SeaMonkey">current +tree status</a> 24 hours a day. </p> @@ -20,14 +61,64 @@ </p> -<ul> - <li><a href="http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/seamonkey/nightly/">"Nightly" builds</a></li> - <li><a href="http://wiki.mozilla.org/SeaMonkey:Home_Page">Wiki: SeaMonkey Home Page</a></li> - <li><a href="get-involved">Getting Involved with SeaMonkey</a></li> - <li><a href="artwork">Logo & Artwork</a></li> - <li><a href="project-areas">SeaMonkey Project Areas</a></li> - <li><a href="review-and-flags">Review and Flag Policies</a></li> - <li><a href="http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/seamonkey/" class="ex-ref">SeaMonkey Weblog</a></li> - <li><a href="http://tinderbox.mozilla.org/showbuilds.cgi?tree=SeaMonkey">Current Tree Status</a></li> -</ul> +<h2 id="testing">Testing</h2> + +<p> +Testing our code is a very major and important task in every software project, +and the good thing is that anyone can participate in that by downloading +<a href="http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/seamonkey/nightly/">"Nightly" +builds</a>, using them and +<a href="http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Bug_writing_guidelines">reporting +bugs</a>. +</p> + +<p> +"Nightly" builds are version of our software that are made every night from the +most current source code, the most experimental and dynamically changed +versions are from the so-called "trunk" of the development tree, available as +<a href="http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/seamonkey/nightly/latest-trunk/">latest-trunk +nightly builds</a>. Those are the versions that need the highest amount of +testing, often contain exciting new features but also can easily crash or +destroy any of your data (some people claim they can also eat children or make +your kitchen go up in flames, but we have no actual evidence of such things +actually happening - yet). +<br>To cut things short, we're happy about everyone testing those builds, but +be very careful and keep backups of you your data if you do so, as some of the +code you're testing might not have been tested at all before. +</p> + +<p> +Our <a href="get-involved">Getting Involved</a> page, the Mozilla wiki on +<a href="http://wiki.mozilla.org/SeaMonkey:QA">SeaMonkey QA</a> (Quality +Assurance) and the MDC (Mozilla Developer Center) +<a href="http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/QA">QA section</a> offer some +good additional info about testing and helping us improve our software quality +through that. +</p> + +<h2 id="marketing">Marketing And Other Contributions</h2> + +<p> +Even as a normal user of stable SeaMonkey versions, you can help the project a +lot by spreading the word and telling all your fellow friends, web developers +and other people around you about our great software. +</p> + +<p> +You can use our <a href="artwork">logo & artwork</a> for pointing other +people to SeaMonkey, as that is explicitely allowed by our +<a href="trademark">SeaMonkey trademark policy</a>. +</p> + +<p> +The merchandise available from the +<a href="http://www.cafepress.com/SeaMonkeySuite">SeaMonkey shop</a> can also +help you in spreading the word. +</p> + +<!-- p> +And, last not least, you can <a href="donate">donate money to the SeaMonkey +project</a> via our host organization, the Mozilla Foundation. +</p --> + </body> </html>