233328 - side bar navigation should not link direct to nightly ftp with no warning

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

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

Description

[Michael Lefevre]

Currently the developers pages link straight to the ftp folder, so there is no
explanation (or disclaimers) about nightlies.  The link should point to
binaries.html instead.

binaries.html does need updating though - it says that all Mozilla binaries are
only for testing, including the milestones, which isn't true any more (the same
text was removed from the releases page).  Also the Nautilus link is broken, and
Caldera isn't any longer being distributed...

Comment 1

[Daniel Wang]

Michael, can you merge content of www.mozilla.org/download-mozilla.html and
www.mozilla.org/binaries.html and put it under developer/ ?

> Also the Nautilus link is broken, and Caldera...
fixed

Comment 2

[Michael Lefevre]

I don't mind doing a little work, but I'm not quite sure why those pages need to
be merged, or how that work fits under this bug.

I know I made a comment about the content, but the main issue I was trying to
address was the fact that the sidebar doesn't link to binaries.html.  I'm not
sure the release builds or third party products belong on the same page, let
alone source code.  I don't see any problem with having several download pages,
as long as they all have different content.

Comment 3

[Daniel Wang]

wfm, Asa just put a notice on developer/ . binaries.html has outlived its
usefullness and needs to go (bug 187813)

Comment 4

[Michael Lefevre]

it's rather pointless having bugs when people are making changes independently
of the bugs.

Asa's change is an improvement.  However, it's still possible to go from home
page -> releases page -> nightly ftp folder.  binaries.html can go, but that
link still needs to go to a page with an explanation, rather than straight to
the ftp. 

Comment 5

[Daniel Wang]

*** Bug 227666 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6

[Daniel Wang]

*** Bug 235764 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7

[Will Jenkins]

Whatever happens, as mentioned in Bug 235764, the link to nightly builds is broken. This looks less 
than impressive and should be fixed.

Comment 8

[Daniel Wang]

*** Bug 238063 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 9

[Daniel Wang]

Attachment: mozilla-org/binaries.html v 1.41

mozilla-org/binaries.html v 1.41 (right before it's removed)

Comment 10

[Daniel Wang]

Attachment: releases/nightly.html v1

proposed replacement

Comment 11

[Daniel Wang]

Attachment: change template

template.html changes. someone needs to fix binaries.html redirect.

Comment 12

[Daniel Wang]

Attachment: releases/nightly.html v1.2

some changes.
Does anyone know why on www.mozilla.org/developer/ there are no per-platform
links to Thunderbird nightlies?

Comment 13

[Michael Lefevre]

"Does anyone know why on www.mozilla.org/developer/ there are no per-platform
links to Thunderbird nightlies?"

The Thunderbird nightlies were not produced automatically, but manually every
week or two, and so there was no "latest-X.X" link, and so no way of making a
link to the latest build file for each platform.

Also, on this page, I think it would be better to link to the branch builds for
Firefox and Thunderbird - current development is on the branch, and the next few
releases will be coming from the branch. That would mean updating the links a
few times, but the trunk builds are a bit in limbo really, until we've had
Firefox 1.0 and Thunderbird 1.0 (and possibly some 1.x releases) from the branch.

Comment 14

[fantasai]

r=fantasai on the nightly.html text and HTML code

Comment 15

[Daniel Wang]

releases/nightly.html checked-in
I don't have permission to change template.html . dbaron, can you do that and
also fix the redirect for binaries.html?

Comment 16

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

reassigning endico's bugs to default owner

Comment 17

[Anne (:annevk)]

.

Comment 18

[u115577]

This bug was fixed by template.html (1.90)
http://cvs-www.mozilla.org/webtools/bonsai/cvslog.cgi?file=mozilla-org/html/template.html