335376 - Featured Mozilla Projects should include SeaMonkey

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

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

Description

[Steve Chapel]

A link to <http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/> should be added to the Featured Mozilla Projects list at <http://www.mozilla.org/products/>.

Comment 1

[Robert Kaiser]

Not sure if this makes sense with where mozilla.org is going, I guess we should wait for how bug 345664 turns out.

Comment 2

[Robert Kaiser]

Hmm, I though this would have been done already, we for sure have the needed SeaMonkey icon there at least, but the products page hasn't been updated to list SeaMonkey.

Reed, what's the status on that?

Comment 3

[Robert Kaiser]

--> reed per IRC request. Thanks for looking into that!

Comment 4

[Chris Ilias [:cilias]]

I wanted to see if I could fix this myself, and it seems simple enough. (leaving assigned to Reed. Re-assigning is his decision.)
I have a couple of questions:

- where should SeaMonkey be placed? Top of "Featured Mozilla Projects"? Bottom?

- which description do you want used?

Comment 5

[Robert Kaiser]

Reed told me today on IRC that he'll look at this today. We already have the logo in the correct size and with the correct filename on mozilla.org, it just needs to be added into the list.
I think it should be at the top, just like on the mozilla.org main page and the downloads page.
Reed, should I come up with a description?

Comment 6

[Robert Kaiser]

As requested on IRC, here's a description for SeaMonkey on this page:

SeaMonkey is the all-in-one internet application suite formerly known as "Mozilla Application Suite", containing web browser, mail and newsgroups client, HTML editor, web development tools and IRC chat in a single software package.

Comment 7

[Chris Ilias [:cilias]]

Attachment: fix

I hope I'm not stepping on toes; but it looks like Reed is just too busy. :-) AFAIK, this patch should accomplish what you want.

Comment 8

[Reed Loden [:reed]]

Comment on attachment 242943 [details] [diff] [review]
fix

Sorry, I have been super-busy with Firefox 2, Firefox Party, and other random things. I apologize for not getting to this sooner.

r=reed, though I made this change:
I changed the text to say 'SeaMonkey is the all-in-one internet application suite formerly known as the "Mozilla Application Suite", containing a web browser, a mail and newsgroups client, an HTML editor, web development tools and an IRC chat client in a single software package.'

I'll commit this since it's already in my copy.

Comment 9

[Reed Loden [:reed]]

Checking in index.html;
/cvsroot/mozilla-org/html/products/index.html,v  <--  index.html
new revision: 1.36; previous revision: 1.35
done

Again, I apologize for taking so long. It's just been very busy lately. :(

Comment 10

[Robert Kaiser]

Verified, it's there and working, also thanks for making the description better English :)

I would have linked to <http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/> directly though, as currently seamonkeyproject.org and seamonkey-project.org both are forwarded to that anyways.

Comment 11

[Reed Loden [:reed]]

(In reply to comment #10)
> I would have linked to <http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/> directly
> though, as currently seamonkeyproject.org and seamonkey-project.org both are
> forwarded to that anyways.

Checking in mozilla-org/html/products/index.html;
/cvsroot/mozilla-org/html/products/index.html,v  <--  index.html
new revision: 1.37; previous revision: 1.36
done

Comment 12

[William M. Quarles]

Considering that the new Seamonkey software is still experimental and has obvious bugs in it, whereas Mozilla Suite 1.7.13 does not, I think that there should still be an easy link on the Seamonkey page to download a stable version of Mozilla Suite.

Comment 13

[Robert Kaiser]

William:
1) This is the wrong place to complain about this
2) SeaMonkey 1.0.x is as stable as Mozilla 1.7.x, not sure who told you otherwise
3) Mozilla 1.7.13 has a growing number of known security leaks, some of which are major, and all of which are fixed in current SeaMonkey versions
4) SeaMonkey is released by a different group of people as the Mozilla suite, and thereforethe old, obsolete suite will not be linked from SeaMonkey, as even Mozilla people want us to make a clear, visible separation between those two projects.

Comment 14

[William M. Quarles]

1.  Wasn't this "bug" started as a request for a link to be posted on the website?
2.  I guess I'll have to try Seamonkey 1.0.6, because 1.0.5 had quite a few noticeable bugs, some of which stuck around after I reverted to using Mozilla Suite again.
3.  Considering that I'm behind a switch with a firewall and NAT, I'm not too worried.  I guess other people should be.
4.  I guess that "the application formerly known as 'Mozilla Application Suite.'" talk led me to believe otherwise.

Comment 15

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

> 3.  Considering that I'm behind a switch with a firewall and NAT, I'm not too
> worried.  I guess other people should be.

Huh? How does that help?