1475843 - Rework SeaMonkey Nightly builds page.

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(SeaMonkey :: Website, enhancement)

Description

[Frank-Rainer Grahl (:frg)]

Nightly builds are currently unuseable and also broken because comm-central is still the top sourcedir in the old builder configs. ewong is doing the new infra and before this one isn't able to build we won't be able to do comm-esr60+ builds. So state this on the website and temporary remove the link to the nightly builds.

Comment 1

[Frank-Rainer Grahl (:frg)]

Attachment: 1475843-NightlyBuilds.patch

I added Bills page so that we are able to provide some interim test releases. Maybe add a stronger wording that these are not official project releases?

Comment 2

[Ian Neal]

Comment on attachment 8992199 [details] [diff] [review]
1475843-NightlyBuilds.patch

>+++ b/src/community.en.html
>@@ -180,16 +180,26 @@ websites that provide lists and install 
>     modified to work with SeaMonkey.
>     </p>
>   </dd>
> </dl>
> 
> <h2 id="other">Other Web Resources</h2>
> 
> <dl class="sitelist">
>+  <dt><a href="http://www.wg9s.com/">Bill Gianopoulos home page hosting unofficial builds</a></dt>
>+  <dd>
>+    <p>
>+    If you want to test a new build this page provides some bleeding edge
>+    releases with fixes still in review or not fully done. As with all
>+    unofficial releases be careful and have a full backup ready.
Backup of what?
>+    Downgrading to prior versions was never and will not be supported.
Is this line worth being made bold?

>+++ b/src/dev/nightly.en.html

>+<p><font size="+1" color="#ff0000"><b>Because of Mozilla platform api and
Nit: API rather than api
>+source removals Nightly builds are currently not provided. This will not change
Nit: source code rather than source
>+anytime soon. We have allocated all available developer resources to fix up the
>+next planned 2.57 release.
next planned release (expected to be 2.57).

>+<p>We are switching to a new infrastructure and will provide alpha and new
>+beta builds as soon as possible.
We are in the process of creating a new infrastructure to switch to and, once that is ready, will look to provide alpha and beta builds.

>+builds provided on
>+<a href="http://www.wg9s.com/">Bill Gianopoulos home page hosting unofficial builds</a>.
>+As with all unofficial releases be careful and have a full backup ready.
>+Downgrading to prior versions was never and will not be supported.</p>
Same comments as above about backup and boldness.

f=me for the moment

Comment 3

[Frank-Rainer Grahl (:frg)]

Attachment: 1475843-NightlyBuilds.patch

> Is this line worth being made bold?

Can't probably be stated often enough even if it falls on deaf ears so yes :)

Comment 4

[Frank-Rainer Grahl (:frg)]

https://hg.mozilla.org/SeaMonkey/seamonkey-project-org/rev/ae02ede77772d57554c77bb7fb5a830a8c6417c5