1197988 - Link to the Treeherder mailing list from the help menu

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Tree Management :: Treeherder, defect, P3)

Description

[Jonathan French (:jfrench)]

So the user problem:

If I first encounter Treeherder and/or Mozilla, I don't have any reference point on past Treeherder development work or recently landed features. Blog posts do exist out in the ether but I need to know http://planet.mozilla.org/ateam/ exists, and/or sift through it to find relevant content.

Possible solution:

It would be nice if we had an in-app blog/rss icon in the navbar which opened a page on some centralized feed of just Treeherder work.

Current discussions in channel are for a Treeherder sub-planet of the Ateam aka. Engineering Productivity, on planet.m.o. at http://planet.mozilla.org/ateam/. Other options discussed are a Twitter feed of those posts, Wordpress, or similar.

Comment 1

[Jonathan French (:jfrench)]

I'm doing the UI/menu part for Help now (also a couple of other useful entries), so we have something to hook to when the feed is available.

Comment 2

[Jonathan French (:jfrench)]

Attachment: PR 906

UI portion of the bug for review :) This could theoretically be landed prior to the existence of our consolidated treeherder feed, and then the new link added.

Comment 3

[Ed Morley [:emorley]]

Comment on attachment 8652401 [details] [review]
PR 906

Looks good so far :-)
Let's add the new menu in a separate PR to the blog entry, we can either morph this bug to be about the former only (and file a new one for the latter), or else obsolete this attachment and move to a new bug.

Comment 4

[Ed Morley [:emorley]]

(In reply to Ed Morley [:emorley] from comment #3)
> Let's add the new menu in a separate PR to the blog entry

We can then add the new blog link once the category is set up, and will save us blocking on it.

Comment 5

[Jonathan French (:jfrench)]

Sure, I'll open a new bug for my existing PR906/branch. I'll remove the Development News menu and update the PR/commit message to that new bug number.

And I'll obsolete PR906 from this bug, and we can open a new PR here when we want to add the Development News entry.

Comment 6

[Jonathan French (:jfrench)]

(In reply to Jonathan French (:jfrench) from comment #5)
> Sure, I'll open a new bug for my existing PR906/branch.

Now bug 1199078.

Comment 7

[Jonathan French (:jfrench)]

Just noting this is what we'd like to add for this bug, as the 3rd Help menu entry (between Development Documentation and Project Wiki) when the treeherder feed becomes available (substituting the appropriate url):

<li>
  <a href="http://planet.mozilla.org/ateam/" target="_blank">
    <span class="fa fa-rss midgray"></span>
  Development News</a>
</li>

Comment 8

[Treeherder GitHub Bugbot]

Commit pushed to master at https://github.com/mozilla/treeherder

https://github.com/mozilla/treeherder/commit/c23cee5d05610c610bdd6f883679d28c4f499c86
Bug 1197988 - Add Help menu and useful menu entries

Comment 9

[Jonathan French (:jfrench)]

Gah, I stomped on the updated bug number during my rebase. This commit above was applied to bug 1199078.

Comment 10

[Ed Morley [:emorley]]

Now that we have the mailing list, we should just link to that from the help menu.

If we start blogging in the future, we can always advertise blog posts on the mailing list.

Comment 11

[GitHub Autolander Bot]

Attachment: [treeherder] mozilla:help-menu-mailing-list > mozilla:master

Comment 12

[William Lachance (:wlach)]

Comment on attachment 8757936 [details] [review]
[treeherder] mozilla:help-menu-mailing-list > mozilla:master

Might be worth mentioning the mailing list in the documentation at some point as well.

Comment 13

[Treeherder GitHub Bugbot]

Commit pushed to master at https://github.com/mozilla/treeherder

https://github.com/mozilla/treeherder/commit/8d50502e76127538159833ea32be75e2bf7e4929
Bug 1197988 - Link to the Treeherder mailing list from the help menu