103794 - No link to home page/index page/urlbase on bug footer

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Bugzilla :: User Interface, enhancement)

Description

[Sean Harding]

It would be really nice to have a link back to the main bugzilla.mozilla.org web
page from the Bugzilla bugs page. Since there's no obviousl link, I always have
the impulse to click the Mozilla.org banner at the top of the page, which
obviously takes me back to www.mozilla.org...

Comment 1

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

Sean: what page are you talking about?  You did not specify a URL, and the only
page I can think of that fits your description (http://www.mozilla.org/bugs/)
has two links to bugzilla.mozilla.org within the first two paragraphs.

Comment 2

[Sean Harding]

I'm talking about virtually every page on http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/. This one
(http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103794), for example.

There's a link to /query.cgi, /enter_bug.cgi, /reports.cgi, /showvotes.cgi,
http://www.mozilla.org, etc., but no link back to / (http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/).

Comment 3

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

ok, in that case, this is a Bugzilla bug, and not something specific to
bugzilla.mozilla.org, since other than the main bugzilla.mozilla.org page
itself, the rest is all generated by the software.

Comment 4

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

grr, forgot reassign to component owner

Comment 5

[Adam Kennedy]

Attachment: Proposed link added

Comment 6

[Adam Kennedy]

Added <A> tag to link the "Bugzilla version x.xx" at the top of every page

Comment 7

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

We are currently trying to wrap up Bugzilla 2.16.  We are now close enough to
release time that anything that wasn't already ranked at P1 isn't going to make
the cut.  Thus this is being retargetted at 2.18.  If you strongly disagree with
this retargetting, please comment, however, be aware that we only have about 2
weeks left to review and test anything at this point, and we intend to devote
this time to the remaining bugs that were designated as release blockers.

Comment 8

[Bradley Baetz (:bbaetz)]

Comment on attachment 56365 [details] [diff] [review]
Proposed link added

needs-work because its not templatised. We don't have that versoin text there
any more (as a side issue; why not? the version number in the table header is a
default)

Maybe linkify the "This is Bugzilla" at the bottom of the page?

We already link to bugzilla.org in the footer; do we still want this?

Comment 9

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

The User Interface component now belongs to Gerv.  Reassigning all UNCONFIRMED
and NEW (but not ASSIGNED) bugs currently owned by Myk (the previous component
owner) to Gerv.

Comment 10

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

Reassigning back to Myk.  That stuff about Gerv taking over the User Interface
component turned out to be short-lived.  Please pardon our confusion, and I'm
very sorry about the spam.

Comment 11

[Myk Melez [:myk] [@mykmelez]]

This is a valid bug; we should have a link to the Bugzilla home page somewhere.
 I'm loath to add it to the footer for space reasons, but that'll change with
Gerv's redesign of the footer in bug 232338.

Comment 12

[Myk Melez [:myk] [@mykmelez]]

*** Bug 188983 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 13

[Alex Hirzel]

*** Bug 230763 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 14

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

enhancements without a current patch are being pushed to 2.20

Comment 15

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

*** Bug 242172 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 16

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

Bugzilla 2.20 feature set is now frozen as of 15 Sept 2004.  Anything flagged
enhancement that hasn't already landed is being pushed out.  If this bug is
otherwise ready to land, we'll handle it on a case-by-case basis, please set the
blocking2.20 flag to '?' if you think it qualifies.

Comment 17

[Jay Smith]

How complicated can this be?

Comment 18

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

(In reply to comment #17)
> How complicated can this be?

Probably easy enough that you could write a patch for it.  Go for it ;)
Hint: affected file is template/en/default/global/useful-links.html.tmpl

Comment 19

[GavinS]

Attachment: Add a 'Home' link in the footer

Comment 20

[Myk Melez [:myk] [@mykmelez]]

Comment on attachment 159385 [details] [diff] [review]
Add a 'Home' link in the footer

Yeah, this is useful. r=myk

Comment 21

[Myk Melez [:myk] [@mykmelez]]

This is such a small and low-risk change that I think it's worth getting into
2.18 as well for the sake of keeping the trunk and branch more in sync, although
it's not a blocker.

Comment 22

[GavinS]

Could someone check this in for me please?

Comment 23

[Myk Melez [:myk] [@mykmelez]]

Hmm, taking another look, shouldn't this be pointing to index.cgi rather than
urlbase?

Comment 24

[GavinS]

(In reply to comment #23)
> Hmm, taking another look, shouldn't this be pointing to index.cgi rather than
> urlbase?

But how can we tell it is index.cgi, and not index.html, or some other home page the admin has 
configured as a default page? What do you think is wrong with just using urlbase?

Comment 25

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

why not use href="./" ?  We have no subdirectories containing cgis that dump
templates, and if we ever do, lots of things will have to be fixed to support it
anyway.

Comment 26

[Myk Melez [:myk] [@mykmelez]]

Good point.  Ok, checked in to 2.18 branch and trunk:

Checking in template/en/default/global/useful-links.html.tmpl;
/cvsroot/mozilla/webtools/bugzilla/template/en/default/global/useful-links.html.tmpl,v
 <--  useful-links.html.tmpl
new revision: 1.32; previous revision: 1.31
done
Checking in ../bz218/template/en/default/global/useful-links.html.tmpl;
/cvsroot/mozilla/webtools/bugzilla/template/en/default/global/useful-links.html.tmpl,v
 <--  useful-links.html.tmpl
new revision: 1.27.2.1; previous revision: 1.27
done