New Contributor Guide

First things first: Welcome to Mozilla! We’re glad to have you here, whether you’re considering volunteering as a contributor or are employed by Mozilla.

Our goal here is to get you up and running to contribute as an automation developer. This guide attempts to be generic enough to be useful to most A-Team projects, but some details (especially around software you need installed) may vary among projects.

Let’s get started!

• About the A-Team
  • How to Talk to Us
  • Find a Mentor!
  • Turn on the Firehose
• Accounts
  • GitHub
  • Mercurial and Mozilla-Central
  • Bugzilla
• Software and Tools
  • Operating Systems: Windows, Linux, or OS X?
  • Git
  • Mercurial
  • DXR
  • Pastebin
  • Python
• Finding a Project
  • Getting set up
  • Find a mentor
  • How to contribute
• Development Process
  • Filing a Bug
  • Working on the Bug
  • Testing and Resolution
  • Next steps
• Commitment Curve
  • Explorer
  • Associate
  • Core Contributor
  • Peer
  • Project Lead