279823 - Add new b.m.o. front page template (including "Bugs reported Today" link)

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

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

Description

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

I've done a new front page template for b.m.o. We should put it up. Note that it
contains a link to http://hendrix.mozilla.org, so that would need to go live first.

Gerv

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

Attachment: New front page template

Comment 2

[Doug Wright]

Will this also change the banner at the top of the page to match the current
mozilla.org style? (I can't tell from looking at the attachment...)

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

No - the banner is in a different template.

Gerv

Comment 4

[alanjstr]

Is there a bug number for Hendrix that should be blocking this?

Comment 5

[Colin Ogilvie [:cso]]

Bug 278500 is the only obvious one that I can see (CVS Update Hendrix)

Comment 6

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

both this bug and the hendrix one are blocking the bmo-upgrade bug

Comment 7

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

justdave: obviously, the b.m.o. upgrade has got delayed again - but this bug is
independent of it. Can you just put the template in the custom directory, so we
can start getting the benefits of the new page?

Gerv

Comment 8

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

The new front page has been put in place on recluse, it'll be live after we
switch over shortly.

Comment 9

[timeless]

this was a bad change.

Report a bug does not need ?format=guided, privs do that.

the human text should be on the left, and the annoying pink thing can go
somewhere else (try the right side, or a trash can).

Comment 10

[tor]

I agree that this was a bad change.  Do not disturb the fragile world of harried
developers.

Comment 11

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

I removed the &format=guided.

Privs will take care of that for users that don't have them.

Comment 12

[[e-mail]]

Comment on attachment 172395 [details]
New front page template

>  <li><a href="http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/duplicates.cgi?sortby=delta&reverse=1&maxrows=100&changedsince=30">Hot Bugs</a> (most commonly filed recently)  
This needs to be a relative link, not an absolute link to the wrong protocol.

Comment 13

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

(In reply to comment #12)
> This needs to be a relative link, not an absolute link to the wrong protocol.

ok, all of the absolute links into Bugzilla have been changed to relative links
(the create an account link suffered from that problem as well)

Comment 14

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

the rest of the complaints here are design issues rather than technical, so I'll
leave that back to Gerv...

Comment 15

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

Yes, sorry about the absolute/relative and wrong protocol stuff - the page was
originally written back when we used HTTP, and I was testing it on my local server.

tor: I apologise if the front page has removed stuff you use; but given the
number of bad bug reports we get, it seems sensible to me that the front page
should be aimed at helping and assisting new users and first-time bug filers.
Experienced users have bookmarks and so on. In the same way, our default query
is set up for new bug filers, not experienced developers, because the
experienced can customise it.

What feature or link in particular are you missing from the front page?

timeless: similar logic to the above suggests that our first priority in b.m.o.
should be to get rid of people who are in the wrong place - hence the prominence
and location of the "alternative places you might want to be" section.

Gerv

Comment 16

[tor]

Problems with the new front page:

  * you can no longer enter a bug number in the primary, focused entry field.

  * "bugs already filed today" link removed.  I used this to keep a general
feeling as to the state of the tree.  A bookmark wouldn't help here, as is it's
not something I consciously doing - it was just a link that I would occasionally
use in the numerous times a day that I went to the b.m.o homepage.

  * the novice user box is wasted screen realestate for me.  It should either be
shown based on the privs, or made something I can turn off from my bugzilla
preferences.

Comment 17

[tor]

Actually that primary search entry field isn't returning anything for any query
at the moment.

Comment 18

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

Attachment: New front page template v1.1

Here's an updated template. It:

- fixes the &format=guided
- fixes the absolute links
- makes it possible to put bug numbers into the front page field
- restores the "Bugs Reported Today" link
- Adds a "report a broken website" link to the new user box

In a moment, I'll upload the page.cgi page which the "report a broken website"
link leads to.

Gerv

Comment 19

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

Attachment: "broken website" page.cgi page

This needs putting in template/en/custom/pages/ .

Gerv

Comment 20

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

Assigning back to Dave to upload the new versions.

Gerv

Comment 21

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

*** Bug 299805 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 22

[Prognathous]

Tweaking the summary to make this bug easier to find.

Prog.

Comment 23

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

*** Bug 299805 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 24

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

Deployed.

Minor issues: I had to swap [% IF username %] out for [% IF user.id %] again,
and there was a missing </a> tag after the Bugs Filed Today link.