Closed Bug 1209959 Opened 10 years ago Closed 10 years ago

Release Notes link in Thunderbird 38.3.0 doesn't work

Categories

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Product:
Thunderbird
Component:
General
Version:
38 Branch
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED FIXED

People

(Reporter: dannyfox, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:41.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/41.0 Build ID: 20150917150946 Steps to reproduce: Installed newly-released TB 38.3.0 and wanted to check Release Notes. Clicked MENU, RELEASE NOTES. Actual results: Firefox launched and displayed "Ooooops" message, saying page (URL) was not available: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/nightly/releasenotes/?uri=/thunderbird/releasenotes/&locale=en-US&version=38.3.0&os=WINNT&buildid=20150928051427 Expected results: Release Notes page should come up.
We don't have release notes for Daily, right? So 404 is correct I guess.
Oh the problem here is: redirecting from live.mozillamessaging.com to www.mozilla.org is not working properly. Then I cannot fix it.
(In reply to Kohei Yoshino [:kohei] from comment #2) > We don't have release notes for Daily, right? So 404 is correct I guess. But I'm talking 38.3.0, installed from the standard public RELEASE channel.
perhaps related to product details? I confess, in QA I did not test release notes menu item from Thunderbird itself. I don't know about anyone else
Flags: needinfo?(sledru)
Component: Untriaged → General
I suspect I missed "[X] Push release notes live"
Kohei, your Comment 6 inspired me to try a little hacking. Having updated to 38.3.0 on my laptop and getting the problem, I checked my tower before updating and recall seeing "38.2.0" embedded as a folder in the URL. So I tried THIS -- and it worked. Original: "nightly" (which likely triggered your Comment #2...) https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/nightly/releasenotes/?uri=/thunderbird/releasenotes/&locale=en-US&version=38.3.0&os=WINNT&buildid=20150928051427 My hack: "38.3.0" (refer to the actual release) https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/38.3.0/releasenotes/?uri=/thunderbird/releasenotes/&locale=en-US&version=38.3.0&os=WINNT&buildid=20150928051427
So the page does exist but the redirect is broken.
I fixed a redirect in commit r147235 not sure it is the issue. And I did push the release notes live: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/38.3.0/releasenotes/
Flags: needinfo?(sledru)
Yes the page exists. I don't know how the "redirect" process actually works. The URLs I quoted in my Comment 8 come from the browser (FF). First, as given by TB's HELP, RELEASE NOTES menu choice. Second, as I manually replaced "nightly" with "38.3.0". Just now (after Sylvestre's push), I retried the menu link but it still fails.
(In reply to Dan Pernokis from comment #11) > Just now (after Sylvestre's push), I retried the menu link but it still > fails. Yes, there is a latency before deployment.
release notes still MIA for me.
But got it now. Also Joe a few minutes ago. Thanks Sylvestre
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 10 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
And I just got it. (Had a few failures, flushed cache again and it worked.) Thanks, guys! Now if you could only implement the same RELEASE NOTES thing in Firefox. :)
(In reply to Dan Pernokis from comment #15) > Now if you could only implement the same RELEASE NOTES thing in Firefox. :) You mean having a direct link to the release notes from the app?
YES! FF needs a RELEASE NOTES feature (under HELP) the same as TB has. I always like to check new release info, and end up going through a complicated manual process to find the page on Mozilla.
Indeed. You are asking to the right person, I worked on bug 1047395 a while ago and I will come back to it.
That would be great, Sylvestre! I had a quick look, and I see early complaints there too about "no release notes" and "not easy to find RNs on the website". I skimmed over the format discussions -- TB's display format is fine. The only awkward thing is the link going to the full list of bugs "in this release" -- different format, fully displayed (OK), but there is no indication on how to get to previous releases & fixes. I know there is a longer (continuous) list, broken into segments by release -- I've seen it a few times, probably accessible from the "not-easy-to-find" pages I can't locate. :) Let me know if you want to move this discussion to 1047395, stay here anyway, or start a new bug.
Please move the discussion on this other bug :)
Thanks, Sylvestre -- we'll end the discussion here. To continue, please go to Bug 1047395 (pick up at Comment #16)...
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