Hmm, can someone TLDR what this is supposed to be? I did read the article but I didn't understand what this is trying to do. It just mentions something about the "collective health of something".
Last year our team was downsized by a little below 50%. Most of the losses were in the writer's team. We only lost one engineer.
As a result, our writing output was considerably smaller. To mitigate this, we did two things:
1. Mozilla hired some contractors to help keep the continuous web platform documentation updates happening, so MDN does not become out of date.
2. Mozilla plus Google, Microsoft, Samsung, W3C, Coil, and other supporters worked together to create Open Web Docs, which provides funding to hire more full-time writing staff to help MDN content keep getting better.
Step 1 was really just getting MDN out of trouble, and back to stability. Step 2 is about letting us go further and start evolving MDN's content.
MDN is staying inside Mozilla; we still contribute a lot to MDN in terms of engineering, infrastructure, and writing costs. It is just that we now have OWD contributing to writing costs as well, to help safeguard the content.
This is a good thing — it allows all the interested orgs to get together and agree on future content directions for MDN together, rather than just working away on it in our own little pockets. And we'll be developing a shared process to follow to make sure that all work is going in the right direction.
It seems like they're going to 'own' MDN from a funding perspective among other future proejcts
my short summary is: Mozilla is spinning-off MDN into a separate entity
that separate entity may attracting funding and donations that wouldn't normally contribute to Mozilla for various reasons in the same amounts
They should have just put this as headline instead. Sigh.
(Take this with a grain of salt. I’m still only half-sure I get it.)
ETA: hayksaakian succeeded in saying what I was trying but failing to say. :)