We released MDN 1.7 today. Included in this release:
MDN
- Developer Profile CTA on demo submit page. (bug 696260)
- Geolocation on the events page. (bug 700778)
- Fix bug editing derby demos. (bug 704196)
- Various other bug fixes, additions, improvements
- Continue to support the Apps developer launch on MDN
Wiki
- Switch auth from MindTouch to django (big bug 674635)
MDN 1.8
The major themes of MDN 1.8 are:
- Merge our separate mdn & wiki branches so we can develop and deploy both with a sane release process.
It also lets run the new wiki on the production site, controlled by waffle, so we can get feedback from MDN users on the new wiki. - Clean up and polish the django auth.
- Define UX and mockups for BrowserID.
- Continue to support the Apps developer launch on MDN.
It's gonna be the future soon
Jay is leaving Mozilla! :( I'm going to miss him and his war stories from the good ol' days of Netscape. He brought a lot of insight and perspective to MDN and drove the efforts to make it more than "just" a documentation wiki. Until someone else takes over product management, we're going to put our heads down to work on the big components of the MindTouch-django wiki migration:
- Migrate MindTouch wiki data.
It's nice that MindTouch stores HTML and our django wiki also stores HTML. Much better than having to parse and translate wiki markup. - Implement an alternative to DekiScript
MindTouch's DekiScript is a LuaScript subset for making dynamic content snippets in wiki pages. We're planning to implement an equivalent system based on JavaScript with a library to work with the django wiki.
I'll probably run product management interference for any urgent MDN features (e.g., apps) until we have a dedicated product manager.
Right now James and Les and I are in Toronto with #sumo and #sumodev talking about the future of the newly-amalgamating "Platforms" Webdev team. We want to open MDN, SUMO, Mozillians.org, and Input sites as community "platforms" over the next year. Stay tuned for more ...
