102423 - Help -> Release Notes should go directly to release notes

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 150900

(SeaMonkey :: UI Design, defect)

Description

[Christopher Aillon (sabbatical, not receiving bugmail)]

In NS 4.x, Help -> Release Notes went directly to the release notes page.  I'm
not exactly sure why we don't in Mozilla.  Releases and release notes aren't the
same.

If we really want to link to the releases page, I think we should add another
menu item called "Releases", but let's not steal the "Release Notes" item for that.

Comment 1

[André Dahlqvist]

Agreed. The URL would have to be modified between each release, but in my
opinion that could be done by the same person who bumps the version number in
About Mozilla.

Comment 2

[André Dahlqvist]

Attachment: Patch that points release notes to http://www.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla0.9.5/

Comment 3

[Doron Rosenberg (IBM)]

need asa's input

Comment 4

[timeless]

i'd prefer a server side fix.

Comment 5

[André Dahlqvist]

timeless, yes that would be cool. But exactly how do you accomplish that?

Comment 6

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

The server side fix could redirect people based on their User Agent. However,
this would be bad - I may well want to read the draft 0.9.5 release in a 0.9.4
build.

The other option would be a redirect from a common URL (e.g.
http://www.mozilla.org/releases/release-notes) which changed every milestone;
but that would also be non-trivial, I think. CCing Dawn re: that option.

The _really_ sensible thing would be for the client to work out the correct
release notes based on its own User Agent using a bit of chrome JS. That
wouldn't be too hard, but would need us to maintain a consistent naming scheme
on the server side. I doubt that would be a problem.

Anyone up for coding that?

Gerv

Comment 7

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

Really CCing Dawn this time.

Gerv

Comment 8

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

it's fine as it is. 

Comment 9

[Christopher Aillon (sabbatical, not receiving bugmail)]

After a talk with Asa in #mozilla, it seems there is no good and quick way to do
this.  The UA is not permanent (it can be changed by the user) which is
complicated by the fact that the UA can be ahead of the game on CVS (for example
it could be 0.9.5 which we don't have relnotes for yet), and we both agree that
we shouldn't have to update this every few weeks for a new milestone.  The only
suggestion that will be feasible is perhaps Gerv's second idea of having a
general release-notes page on the web server.  That should be a different RFE
for mozilla.org though.

Verifying WONTFIX for now.

Comment 10

[Daniel Wang]

dupe of bug 150900

Comment 11

[Daniel Wang]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 150900 ***