Comments on: Getting involved with Mozilla

By: Arrvind

Arrvind — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 13:23:17 +0000

I wanted to get involved in fennec android . I have made the build . Now i really wanted to start working on source code for fennec. I need help in finding the url for source code explanatory docs. Give me any suggestions to start with it.

By: anne

anne — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 17:35:46 +0000

same problem; I just created an account and I really want to get involved. I read a lot of interesting things but I have no clue how and where can I start; plus I do no know about IPDL, IDL … except javascript.

By: Ashwinth

Ashwinth — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 16:39:38 +0000

Hi Josh,
I want to involve as developer in firefox project. However, same as you, I do not really know where I can start.Can you Please help me to involve in this project…..

By: Josh Matthews

Josh Matthews — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 18:29:20 +0000

Hi Steve,
Personally I use emacs for everything. Other people on Linux swear by vim, while others like to use gedit. Just find something you’re comfortable with – the most important part is what you do with it!

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 18:12:28 +0000

quite good content. I want to involve as developer in firefox project. However, same as you, I do not really know where I can start. First of all I have a setup my development environment. Do you have any preference, which editor is used or which IDE. I came from Java and ABAP background, therefore I do not have any preference for a linux based editor.

By: Ricard

Ricard — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 07:34:56 +0000

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By: Ted Mielczarek

Ted Mielczarek — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 16:42:26 +0000

Yeah, we could probably use a more formal writeup of this. I would guess it’s how almost everyone who is currently an expert became one. It’s probably the same process you’d use in any context, just immersing yourself in the material until you understand it, but the specifics of doing so in the Mozilla world are useful. Personally I just made a habit of loading the bugzilla page for every bug I saw mentioned anywhere (in irc or forums or blogs, whatever) and at least skimming them. After a while you start to make lots of connections, and get an inherent sense of what’s going on and where to find things.

By: Gavin Sharp

Gavin Sharp — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 19:53:36 +0000

Great blog post! It describes almost exactly the process I went through to familiarize myself with Mozilla. For a while I was known as “that guy who CCs himself everywhere”, and watching incoming bugs filed, reading bonsai (hgweb’s precursor), and hanging out on IRC were how I managed to get a “big picture” view of both the people and the code that make up Mozilla.