186536 - Releases page needs to be linked to, and have the list of release dates on it

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Bugzilla :: bugzilla.org, defect, P5)

Description

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This rather useful list of release dates from the newsgroup should be on our
website or in our docs:
    1998-09-19 2.0
    1999-02-10 2.2
    1999-04-30 2.4
    1999-08-30 2.6
    1999-11-19 2.8
    2000-05-09 2.10
    2001-04-27 2.12
    2001-08-29 2.14                        
    2002-01-05 2.14.1
    2002-05-10 2.16rc1
    2002-06-07 2.16rc2
    2002-06-07 2.14.2
    2002-07-28 2.16
    2002-07-28 2.14.3
    2002-09-30 2.16.1
    2002-09-30 2.14.4

Gerv

Comment 1

[J. Paul Reed [:preed]]

Something like this?

http://www.mozilla.org/releases/cvstags.html

Comment 2

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

Everything from 2.12 forward is listed in the news section on the website.  You
just have to dig for it.  Having a central reference for it would probably be
cool for historical purposes.

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

> Something like this?

Something very like that. And going back pre-2.12 would be a good thing.

Gerv

Comment 4

[Nick Barnes]

For your information:

The list of release dates in this bug report is from a message of mine to the
mozilla-webtools mailing list.  I constructed the list as part of the P4DTI
project http://www.ravenbrook.com/project/p4dti/ when importing Bugzilla
releases into the  "Imported Materials" page at
http://www.ravenbrook.com/project/p4dti/import/.

Because of our project structure, it is a good idea to assign a date to each
imported item.  For the Bugzilla releases I obtained dates from the following
sources, in approximate order of preference: (a) the date of a release
announcement, (b) the timestamp of the tarball on the FTP site, when plausible,
(c) the most recent file timestamp in the untarred result, when plausible, or
(d) the comments in the CHANGES file.

I could have used CVS to obtain dates, but I would have had to (a) figure out
the Bugzilla release labelling policies and (b) make heavy use of CVS (I prefer
Perforce).

Comment 5

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

Matthew is still going to be around to help out, but Jake is taking over the
day-to-day front-line triage type stuff for Documentation

Comment 6

[Jacob Steenhagen]

This would be good to have... do we want it in the guide or on the webpage
though?  I guess I could really go either way, personally.

Comment 7

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

I'd plump for the webpage.

Gerv

Comment 8

[Jacob Steenhagen]

Good enough for me :)

Comment 9

[Nick Barnes]

Here's an up-to-date list:

1998-09-19 2.0
1999-02-10 2.2
1999-04-30 2.4
1999-08-30 2.6
1999-11-19 2.8
2000-05-09 2.10
2001-04-27 2.12
2001-08-29 2.14
2002-01-05 2.14.1
2002-05-10 2.16rc1
2002-06-07 2.16rc2
2002-06-07 2.14.2
2002-07-28 2.16
2002-07-28 2.14.3
2002-09-30 2.16.1
2002-09-30 2.14.4
2002-11-25 2.17.1
2003-01-02 2.16.2
2003-01-02 2.14.5
2003-01-02 2.17.3
2003-04-25 2.16.3
2003-04-25 2.17.4
2003-11-03 2.17.5
2003-11-03 2.16.4
2003-11-10 2.17.6
2004-03-03 2.16.5
2004-03-03 2.17.7

Comment 10

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

http://www.bugzilla.org/releases/ currently exists, and would be a very logical
place to put this.

That page also isn't linked to from anywhere (although various things inside it
are linked to from news announcements and so forth).

We need to get a link to this page somewhere obvious on the site, then include
these dates on it.

Comment 11

[Colin Ogilvie [:cso]]

Attachment: Patch v1

Release page, should probably only be pushed when/after 2.18 and 2.16.8 ships.

This currently only includes stable releases; although I could add development
releases too.

Demo can be seen at http://bugzilla-web.cso.me.uk/releases/

Comment 12

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

Stable releases only is good, but the current stable release should be more
prominent - either separated off, or a different colour, or with a text label.

Otherwise, nice :-)

Gerv

Comment 13

[Colin Ogilvie [:cso]]

Attachment: patch V2

Reword the page slightly, and add highlighting to the current stable release.

Is this any better?

(I know you gave it review+, but thought I would deal with your comments
anyway)

Comment 14

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

Comment on attachment 171301 [details] [diff] [review]
patch V2

I like it.

Comment 15

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

This is now live, with the release numbers jiggled slightly so it still works
without the rest of the release pages posted yet.

It'll get jiggled back when the staged website for the release goes live.