224211 - use variables in web pages for product versions and download urls

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

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

Description

[Dawn Endico]

When a new version is released there are tons of places on the web site
that need to be edited where the version number and urls need to be updated.
With the new website this number has grown. Updating by hand is error prone
and people are likely to forget to update some file or another.

I've just added a mechanism for defining variables that may be used
anywhere on the web site. Variables are added to mozilla-org/html/VARIABLES.
Instances of %%VARIABLE-NAME%% in web pages will be replaced with the
variable's value by the wrapping script when you type 'make' in mozilla-org.

I've changed a bunch of pages to use these variables but there are
still lots of others that can be converted. Unless someone gets real
ambitious, updating the remaining links can happen as new products are
released.


for example,  from mozilla-org/html/index.html

        developing the acclaimed, open source, %%MOZILLA-STABLE-VERSION%% web

and 

        <p class="dl">
           Free Download:
           <a href="%%MOZILLA-STABLE-WIN32%%">Windows</a>,
           <a href="%%MOZILLA-STABLE-MACOSX%%">Mac&nbsp;OS&nbsp;X</a>,
           <a href="%%MOZILLA-STABLE-X86LINUX%%">Linux</a>,
           <a href="./releases/">More&#8230;</a>
         </p>

Comment 1

[Dawn Endico]

Attachment: new variables file

Comment 2

[Dawn Endico]

fixed on branch

Comment 3

[Daniel Wang]

great, except does anyone know about this?

Comment 4

[Daniel Wang]

Endico, %%VAR THUNDERBIRD-VERSION Thunderbird 0.3 should be %%VAR
THUNDERBIRD-VERSION Mozilla Thunderbird 0.3

Comment 5

[Steffen Wilberg]

This doesn't work on http://www.mozilla.org/projects/thunderbird/

Comment 6

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

Steffen: I think it's only implemented on the beta branch right now.

Comment 7

[Steffen Wilberg]

Indeed, it works on http://website-beta.mozilla.org/projects/thunderbird/ : "Our
most recent release is Mozilla Thunderbird 0.2."

0.2, sure.

Comment 8

[Robert Mohr]

Attachment: proposal for new vars file

Sometimes the version number alone is needed--see bug 229091.  I added stuff
like '%%VAR MOZILLA-STABLE-VERSION-ONLY 1.5' for the 5 products.

This is derived from the previous attachment, so it's not guaranteed to be
accurate (since the current version is different from the attachment).	diff it
with the current version to make sure it's ok.

Comment 9

[Robert Mohr]

Reopening

Comment 10

[timeless]

Comment on attachment 137797 [details]
proposal for new vars file

um, NO. r-.
1.5 is not stable. 1.3 was never stable, nor was 1.2, nor 1.1. (1.0, 1.0.1,
1.0.2 were).
1.5 is just latest release we have, that doesn't make it stable.
1.4.1 is the current stable release (i think, unless we haven't shipped it yet,
in which case 1.4 is). 1.4.2 will be the latest stable release eventually.

Comment 11

[Daniel Wang]

> Sometimes the version number alone is needed--see bug 229091.  I added stuff
> like '%%VAR MOZILLA-STABLE-VERSION-ONLY 1.5' for the 5 products.

I disagree. It's not good practice to separate version from product name (e.g.
"Windows 2000 and Windows XP" are preferable to "Windows 2000 and XP"). And I
don't see there's a need for variable like MOZILLA-STABLE-VERSION-ONLY

-> fixed