Websites/Mozilla.org/Archive/Planning
This page is being used as a planning document for updating the www.mozilla.org site.
Site Vision
The role of the www.mozilla.org site going forward should be to act as a community portal and to be a place to host official content. Any page currently on the site that doesn't fit this vision should either be archived, migrated or updated.
For background on this issue, see the following:
Reorganize Structure
To make the site fit the new vision, the organization of the content will need to be changed. Here is a proposed new structure:
- Projects
- Featured Projects
- Mozilla-Based Applications
- Any active project that hasn't moved to the wiki, MDC or their own site
- Developers
- A small section that is mainly pointers to relevant pages on MDC and tools (Bugzilla, LXR, etc).
- Community
- This should serve as a portal to all relevant sites, mailing lists, etc. in the community
- Contribute
- Links to Donate page and other ways to get involved
- Foundation
- About the Foundation
- Activities
- Careers
- Donate
- Licensing & Trademarks
- Public Documents
- Statement of Direction
- Contact Us
- About
- Announcements
- Fast Facts
- History
- How Free Is Mozilla?
- Mozilla Manifesto
- Roles and Leadership
- Timeline
1st row:
- Support Options
- Security Updates
- Privacy Policy
- Contact Us
2nd row:
- International Affiliates: Mozilla Europe - Mozilla Japan - Mozilla China
Home Page Content
The home page can be used to call out some items that we want to highlight but that don't belong in the top nav or footer.
- Install Firefox call-out
- Store call-out
- Support information
- News
- List of main and featured projects
- Other???
Archiving
The initial plan for archiving involved identifying pages on the www.mozilla.org site that are obsolete and should be removed. This is impractical since there are tens of thousands of pages and it would take a huge effort to go through them all. The current thinking is to archive everything on the current site and then recreate the www.mozilla.org site from scratch and add back the pages we want to be there.
For background on this issue, see the following:
- Create snapshot of www.mozilla.org to post as archive.mozilla.org
- Removing content from www.mozilla.org
Migrating
Owner: Sheppy
Action Items: Move developer content to developer.mozilla.org and identify other content that may belong on other community sites.
- Suggestion: Maybe we should set up a sandbox-like area on MDC to copy developer-related articles from Mozilla.org to; from there, they can make their way to the main MDC site as they're vetted and updated as appropriate, while remaining available with some sort of "This article may be obsolete" banner across the top of the page.
Having heard no objections to that plan, I think that's what we should do. I'll look at organization for this next week.
Projects
Owner: Simon Paquet
The various projects hosted on www.mozilla.org should be handled differently than the other content on the site. It is fine if people would like to keep hosting their projects on the site, but we should go through and update links to projects that have migrated to the wiki, MDC or another site. For abandoned projects we should identify those and make links to them available somewhere.
Action Items:
- Reorganize the Projects page
- by removing projects, which are clearly inactive or outdated
- Determine the activity/validity status of other projects, whose project pages were not updated within the last 18 months
- Remove/archive all content of inactive/outdated projects
- create a valid definition of what constitutes a mozilla.org project and what does not. Remove all items, which do not fall under that category.
- Proposal posted to mozilla.dev.mozilla-org
- Tracking Bug - Bug 393447
Selecting Owners
The overall owner of the site is Reed, but each of the top-level sections will be owned by someone. In addition, everyone currently taking part in the updating process (fantasai, kairo, reed, sheppy, ss, davidwboswell) will have the authority to make changes as needed on the site. In terms of the top-level sections, the owners are:
- Projects (TBD)
- Developers (sheppy)
- Community (TBD)
- Contribute (TBD)
- Foundation (davidwboswell)
- About (fantasai)
Planning Meetings
Meetings are being held about once a month to coordinate ongoing work related to the site. Notes from previous meetings are below:
- Notes from www.mozilla.org planning meeting on 1/23
- Notes from www.mozilla.org planning meeting on 2/6
Action Items
The following are the top open action items from previous meetings:
- Work on new home page and site theme design concepts
- Come up with a plan for the Developers section
- Replace the Products section with Projects (bug 325485)
- Move Community into top-level nav
- Make comprehensive list of all projects / contact project owners (bug 393447)
- Update the Privacy Policy page (bug 416174)