Compare this to most open source projects of this scale, where you will have people just tell you "to look it up in the wiki".
This wiki, if you're lucky enough to find it and find the right article, then often only has a 50% chance of being up to date and therefore missing some crucial information, causing you to spend days getting your build-setup still not working.
Before you even get to contributing, you're already meeting roadblocks on roadblocks and a dismissive attitude to your offer for help.
This on the contrary, looks very inviting. Kudos to Mozilla :)
It really is. This gives me the warm fuzzies. If every free/open source project were like this (ok, ok, like this appears to be) then we would be rolling in riches. I can't count the number of times I've seen a bug in some software and thought "I bet I could solve that!" And I probably could, because I'm not a bad programmer. But the barrier to entry is like the north face of the Eiger sometimes. This turns it into an on-ramp with friendly road signs and a cafe halfway up that serves really good coffee. Bravo, Mozilla!
Compare this to most open source projects of this scale, where you will have people just tell you "to look it up in the wiki".
This wiki, if you're lucky enough to find it and find the right article, then often only has a 50% chance of being up to date and therefore missing some crucial information, causing you to spend days getting your build-setup still not working.
Before you even get to contributing, you're already meeting roadblocks on roadblocks and a dismissive attitude to your offer for help.
This on the contrary, looks very inviting. Kudos to Mozilla :)