287477 - Release notes URL in Help welcome page and about: not updated to 1.0.x.html

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 318991

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Will Budreau]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050317 Firefox/1.0.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050317 Firefox/1.0.2

1.Open "Help Contents"
2.Click on "Release Notes" (web link)

Reproducible: Always

Actual Results:  
Takes user to
http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/releases/1.0.html


Expected Results:  
Should be
http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/releases/1.0.2.html

Presumably the release notes in the help should always be the ones in the
version released.

Comment 1

[Jeff Walden (gone starting June 8)]

(In reply to comment #0)
> 1.Open "Help Contents"
> 2.Click on "Release Notes" (web link)

Help imports the URL from elsewhere:

http://lxr.mozilla.org/aviary101branch/source/browser/locales/en-US/chrome/global/brand.dtd#5

It appears that this location wasn't updated between releases, so consequently
it'll be wrong everywhere it's used.  (Currently, it's actually only used in two
places: Help contents and about:.)

Because localizations aren't actually supposed to change between releases, my
best guess is that the URL should be hardcoded but include a
build-time-generated version number.  The URL will be automatically updated for
the new release, and localizers won't have to do anything.

There's a possibility that I'll patch this as I describe above, but it's only a
possibility.

Anyway, moving to a more appropriate component...

Comment 2

[Steffen Wilberg]

I worked with Chase to fix some 10 l10ns to not point to 1.0.html instead of
0.10.html. At that time, 1.0.html included the 1.0.1 release notes. But then Myk
split them up into 1.0.html, 1.0.1.html, and 1.0.2.html.

Maybe we should add a link at the top of 1.0.html to 1.0.2.html.

Trunk location of brand.dtd is:
http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/source/other-licenses/branding/firefox/locales/en-US/brand.dtd#5

Comment 3

[Steffen Wilberg]

I meant: point to 1.0.html and not to 0.10.html.

Comment 4

[Jo Hermans]

*** Bug 288864 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5

[Jo Hermans]

bug 288864 also notes that the release-notes link in the about: page wasn't updated.

Comment 6

[Zibi Braniecki [:zbraniecki][:gandalf]]

taking.
rebron: can I assume that we will have webpage for all versions like
releases/1.0.html, releases/1.0.1.html, releases/1.0.3.html, releases/1.1.1.html
and so on?

Comment 7

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

No patch, not blocking the release

Comment 8

[Chase Phillips]

See bug 282070 for an example of release notes URL bumping.

Comment 9

[Chris Cooper [:coop] (he/him)]

bsmedberg recommended the following course of action to deal with release note
URL changes *AND* localization issues of same:

* remove the URL from brand.dtd (and brand.properties);
* use instead a string pref in firefox.js. This pref could still be overridden
(if necessary) in firefox-l10n.js for localization;

The new release note URL would be akin to:
 http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox/release.html?locale=%LOCALE%&version=%VERSION%

Comment 10

[Steffen Wilberg]

The Help welcome page doesn't contain the release notes link anymore.
I've fixed the link in about: in bug 318991, so duping to that bug.


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 318991 ***