From years watching and occasionally contributing a tiny bit to Mozilla, I got that sense.<p>I understand that creating and maintaining technical documentation takes more resources than most people assume, but there are compromise solutions ...<p>&gt; it&#x27;s not like Mozilla itself decided that fmarier&#x27;s blog was the best place to put this, he just posted it because it&#x27;s his blog and he&#x27;s a smart person.<p>... instead of posting such things to personal blogs, where few people can discover them, how about just posting the exact same things to a central wiki? For the same amount of work by the authors, they would be far more discoverable by people who need the information; the authors would reach a much wider audience. Wiki updates could publish in Planet Mozilla. (I&#x27;d make the wiki editable only by Mozilla employees, to reduce the burden on authors who might not want to get into debates with the world over what they post.)<p>It may not be authoritative documentation, but it would be far better than what&#x27;s available now and at little additional cost. You can make clear to readers that it&#x27;s ad hoc documentation (e.g., call it the Beta Wiki, put a notice at the top of each page, etc.), and at the top of each page post the date the page was last revised in a way that nobody will overlook.<p>Right now you are wasting a lot of great knowledge by hiding it where nobody will discover it; it&#x27;s like developing great features but hiding them in the interface where nobody will find them.<p>&gt; Firefox is so friggin&#x27; big ...<p>It is, but to be fair there are many comparable or larger software projects out there where detailed technical documentation is more discoverable. Windows comes to mind.<p>All easier said than done. Good luck to you guys; you do great work.