QMO.next Lives!
Aakash Desai
• It was difficult to create content on the site
• There was no focus to each page
• Our community couldn't easily communicate with each other
On an effort to fix these problems, we embarked on a 2 month endeavor to re-design and re-implement the site. What you see now at quality.mozilla.org is a direct result of that work. There's many things we've accomplished, so take a look below for a quick run down of the new QMO. Otherwise, the easiest way to find out about our new features is to simply go to http://quality.mozilla.org and check it out for yourself!
Wordpress CMS
Raymond Etornam was the first to suggest we move over to the Wordpress for QMO. After an analysis of its capabilities, we not only found a great match with our old content structure and a much simpler solution, but also a platform that gave QMO the extensibility that we had been longing for from Drupal for quite some time. Some of the many new additions to our site include a new welcome video directed by our very own Marcia Knous, dynamic sidebar elements such as Related Docs, category-biased blog posts and Google Maps functionality on our events pages.
New Teams
We now have a one-to-one mapping to each group on QMO to the ones within our QA organization. Originally, we listed teams as rolling projects which were hard to maintain, define and follow up with. Not so anymore as each team created on our page will have a lead associated to it who is in charge of maintaining that page and funneling through new community members towards roles and responsibilities for that team. On top of that, we made the pages a lot more interactive. Each individual team page has sidebar elements populated with relevant-to-the-team content elsewhere in QMO, so users don't have to go anywhere else to find out what's the latest in the team that they're interested in reading about.
Simpler Docs Tree
Instead of showing a persistent docs tree to the right of each document. We cut out the third column and gave the documents some more room to breath as well as made the experience of traversing the chapters of each section easier.
A Planet QA
We created a feed reader from blogs (and tweets!) from a great group of contributors within Mozilla Corp and especially within our QA Community. If you want to keep up with what our community is saying about Mozilla, Mozilla QA or QA in general take a look at our Community Page or simply follow its feed!
Thanks,
aakashd
Matt Evans
All,
I personally want to thank Aakash and the rest of the Mozilla QA Team for an outstanding effort in getting the new QMO site up and running. This was truly a team effort, however I do want to commend Aakash for his passionate leadership and persistence in driving this project to completion. Starting from a rant in a QA work week session a couple months ago, to a revamped website with new content, a great intro video spearheaded by Marcia Knous and most of important of all, the ability to easily update the site with Wordpress, is just fantastic. I really feel that Mozilla QA now has a great platform for collaboration, communication and community involvement. The QMO site will be the Mozilla QA voice to the rest of the world on what we do and how they can get involved.
Thanks guys for a job well done,
Matt
Wordpress CMS
New Teams
Simpler Docs Tree
A Planet QA
Thanks,
aakashd
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Henrik Skupin
Hey Aakash,
> • It was difficult to create content on the site • There was no focus
> to each page • Our community couldn't easily communicate with each
> other
Thanks for all the hard work to get this new site up. It does not only
show our team efforts now but also makes it much easier to create
content on that page or let blog post sync with Planet QA. Given at
least those two big improvements I'm looking forward to all the great
content we will publish in the future.
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QA Execution Engineer
Mozilla Corporation
AaronMT
> Mozilla QA has been working on rethinking what a new, better QMO would look like and how it will match with the re-organization of our QA organization. From our brain storming session, we concluded the following problems to fix for the new QMO:
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> • It was difficult to create content on the site
That's great, but I can't figure out how to log in?
Aaron
Anthony Hughes
On 2010-06-04, at 10:13 AM, Al Billings wrote:
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> On Jun 4, 2010, at 1:53 AM, Omega X wrote:
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>> New QMO looks like old QMO, just without forums.
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> The general look and feel was not supposed to change much. You will notice that the teams are completely different and reflect current reality. The community page (http://quality.mozilla.org/community) aggregates feeds from different QA related material. You will see that the doc page is organized differently as well (http://quality.mozilla.org/docs/).
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AaronMT
Found the answer from Tony: "Right, there’s no public user accounts
yet for this version of wordpress. This is one of the top priority
features to get into the next version of QMO."
Aakash Desai
Here are some answers to the questions asked so far (and some answers to questions that might not have been asked):
Q: Why can't I log into QMO anymore?
A: We disabled registration for new users onto QMO because of how spam filled the old drupal-based QMO had gotten. To put it into perspective, we were receiving 200-300 spam comments/messages in our forums and and comments sections a day and there were a number of administrators who were going through the site just to clean up that spam on a daily basis. We want a better experience for our users, that includes our administrators, and the plan is to incorporate a registration/login system in the future when a fully thought out plan is materialized.
Q: Well, then how do I join projects and get into the Mozilla QA Community?
A: There's many ways! You can do any of the following to contact us:
Click on the "Contact Us on IRC" link on the Getting Started sidebar element
E-mail the team leads using the addresses shown on individual team pages
Follow any of our very contactable community members listed on our Community Page under "Contributors"
Q: QMO has a number of users coming in who speak a variety of different languages. Are there plans to localize QMO?
A: Yes! In fact a bug's been filed here: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=570319
Thanks,
Aakash