Project Wizard - Get Started on Your Idea without the Mundane Setup

We've been working on helping new projects get off the ground faster by simplifying the mundane parts of creating a new Mozilla project by creating a project wizard (suggestions on a better name that distinguish between a Mozdev and a wizard project are welcome) and it's now ready for your use!

We've been building on the excellent Fizzypop which we learned about at last year's Mozilla Summit in order to make it easier to add new project types (our contributions can be found in our hg fizzypop repository with tracking in bug#505441).  We've already added Songbird extensions to the choices and hope to add Songbird feathers and Komodo extensions in the near future.

New projects are given links to the wizard to get started on their project right away.  Existing projects can select their project and have a template generated for them to get them going in a new direction quickly as well.

If you have any problems or suggestions please let us know or add them to bug#19617.

Re: Project Wizard - Get Started on Your Idea without the ...

very cool. is there a mailing list or forum for this work?

wishlist:

- integration with bespin. go directly from wizard to development!

- js module support before js xpcom components (which should be avoided at all cost)

Re: Project Wizard - Get Started on Your Idea without the ...

There currently isn't any forum or mailing list for Fizzypop that I'm aware of.
Your ideas for jsmodules and bespin integration are very good as well.  I would recommend filing bugs for them against Fizzypop on the Mozilla bugzilla.

Re: Project Wizard - Get Started on Your Idea without the ...

ok, will do!

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