223488 - search for netscape.com e-mail addresses on mozilla site and convert to new ones..

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(www.mozilla.org :: General, defect, P3)

Description

[chris hofmann]

on various pages you mention

[e-mail]

and

[e-mail]

Comment 1

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

>I finally found a good text search prog (Win2k's text search sucks). Hopefully I
>can fix bug 223488 soon

grep -rn on a *nix box is your friend.

I just tried to upload the results of it, but even gzipped, it's too big for
Bugzilla. :)  Want me to email it to you?

listing includes filename and line number of each line matching "@netscape.com"
in the webtree.  It's 385K gzipped, 3.2 MB uncompressed.

Comment 2

[Nick Bebout]

Dave, could you email it to me?  [e-mail]

Comment 3

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

Done. see your mail

Comment 4

[Nick Bebout]

Do we want to replace every email address?

I have emailed several people who I found new email addresses for on
ex-mozilla.org asking if I should replace their netscape ones with their current
ones.  When I emailed brendan, he stated that he would prefer that I not replace
his old ones on some testcases and stuff, and just leave them alone.

I will abide by his wishes, however, I would personally think that either we
should remove the netscape address or replace it with a valid address.  If I
wanted to contact someone based on a link on a website, I would expect the email
address to work.

Comment 5

[Brendan Eich [:brendan]]

My exact message to Nicholas:

I'd rather you didn't change any of these historical references, testcases, and
the like.  These are not docs meant to help put people in touch with me today.

Some of these docs (the first one,docs/refList/i18n/schedule.html) are obsolete,
of historical interest only, and could be cvs-removed, it seems to me.

/be

Comment 6

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

reassigning endico's bugs to default owner

Comment 7

[Anne (:annevk)]

Make sure that docs that are being removed get the appropriate 410 header. A lot
of abandoned projects use old mail addresses as well, by the way. I suggested in
bug 44073 that we might want to put a warning message at the top of old
(project) files.

Comment 8

[David Boswell]

Closing as wontfix based on comments #5 and #7.  Our current archiving policy involves removing files from www.mozilla.org and having these pages automatically redirect to www-archive.mozilla.org where there is a notice saying this content is out of date.  The goal of the archive site is to provide a snapshot from a certain time so we don't tend to update those pages.

On the other hand, if there are any pages on www.mozilla.org that are current and not going to be archived, I think we should update any posted contact information.  That's a separate bug though since it doesn't involve doing a search and replace for all netscape.com email addresses.  If you do find a page on www.mozilla.org with outdated contact information, please open a new bug.