226321 - Mozilla staff page isn't linked from anywhere

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(www.mozilla.org :: General, defect)

Description

[Michael Lefevre]

According to google, the only pages that link to the Mozilla staff page are a
slide in a presentation buried deep in the site, a status update page from
October 2002 and a news item from 2000 (and it's findable with the search facility).

Should this page be linked from somewhere reasonable, or is it intentionally
being hidden away? If it's being hidden, why not just remove it?

Comment 1

[Robert Mohr]

For completeness, the Google link: 
http://www.google.com/search?&q=link:www.mozilla.org/about/stafflist.html

Comment 2

[Michael Lefevre]

I'm not sure it merits a separate bug, but I might just mention here that the
staff page is also missing some of the staff...

Comment 3

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

reassigning endico's bugs to default owner

Comment 4

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

I'm not sure if Google's link search is actually working.  It still doesn't find
any pages that link to it, but I found some manually...

It's linked to from several places on http://www.mozilla.org/about/roles.html
which is linked to from http://www.mozilla.org/hacking/ which is linked to from
the sidebar on almost all of the pages.  (does that make this bug WORKSFORME?)

A grep on the CVS tree for the website shows:

about/roles.html:31
about/roles.html:37
about/roles.html:118
about/roles.html:154
docs/ora-oss2000/state-of-mozilla/slide10.html:49
news.html:1589
status/2002-10-09.html:57
status/2003-07-18.html:49

robots.txt has this:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /webtools
Disallow: /webalizer

That shouldn't prevent Googlebot from seeing those pages...

(In reply to comment #2)
> I'm not sure it merits a separate bug, but I might just mention here that the
> staff page is also missing some of the staff...

That's bug 233840

Comment 5

[Michael Lefevre]

Hardly obvious, but I guess it is linked. Discussions on some forum or newsgroup
(I forget where/when) indicated that it's not necessarily felt to be good to
have the staff list being found by the casual browser who may be inclined to
email support questions and stuff...

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