344151 - create release notes pages and project homepage for Bon Echo beta 1

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

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

Description

[Mike Beltzner [:beltzner, not reading bugmail]]

Like bug 339351, we need to create:

www.mozilla.org/projects/bonecho/index-2.0b1.html
www.mozilla.org/projects/bonecho/releases/2.0b1.html

As an added bonus, we need to create a download page that uses the same sort of download.js script from mozilla.com to point to localized builds on bouncer (see bug 344129).

Note: the graphics and page titles should now call it "Firefox 2 Beta 1" instead of "Bon Echo Beta 1" since we've enabled official branding. 

Open Question: 

- should these pages be on mozilla.com (pkim/cbeard to weigh in here, my opinion is "no", since it's not really a release, it's still an expression of the project to date)

Comment 1

[Chris Beard]

yes, let's continue to post release notes and first run pages for the development milestones on mozilla.org

Comment 2

[Mike Beltzner [:beltzner, not reading bugmail]]

Added a dep on 344156 which has some redirect magic 'cause we used -enable-official-branding

Comment 3

[Mike Beltzner [:beltzner, not reading bugmail]]

Steven: we're going to need some new graphics for these pages:

1. /projects/bonecho/index-b1.html needs a firefox-icon.png to replace deerpark-icon.png -- is this already available somewhere?

2. /projects/bonecho/releases/2.0b1.html needs a releasenotes-bonecho-beta1.png that includes the branded firefox icon and the text "Firefox 2 beta 1"

Please deliver ASAP, kiss kiss!

Comment 4

[Mike Beltzner [:beltzner, not reading bugmail]]

Attachment: release notes for /projects/bonecho/releases/2.0b1.html

Please check this over, but I think I actually got it all right this time!

Comment 5

[Mike Beltzner [:beltzner, not reading bugmail]]

Preed: can you verify that I have all the file names right in here?

Comment 6

[Mike Beltzner [:beltzner, not reading bugmail]]

Attachment: release notes for /projects/bonecho/releases/2.0b1.html

this should carry over the r=cbeard; changes were:

 - caught a couple of bad links to wrong ftp site dir (for contributed builds)
 - added release notes for bug 355757, bug 337897, bug 343182, and bug 344312

Ready to check this in now.

Comment 7

[Mike Beltzner [:beltzner, not reading bugmail]]

Attachment: firefox 2 beta 1 start page for /projects/bonecho/index-2.0b1.html

again, carries over r=cbeard since the content changes are the same as in the previous bug, I just did some link target changing and s/Bon Echo Alpha 3/Firefox 2 Beta 1/ throughout.

Comment 8

[Mike Beltzner [:beltzner, not reading bugmail]]

Still to do:

 - create and check in the new graphics
 - update /projects/bonecho/index.html to redirect to index-2.0b1.html if the user is using beta 1, or to the devnews post if the user is using an earlier version
 - fix bug 344156
 - think about creating a proper "Get the Firefox 2 Beta" page which would use download.js (see bug 344129)

Comment 9

[Reed Loden [:reed]]

Checking in NOMENU;
/cvsroot/mozilla-org/html/projects/bonecho/NOMENU,v  <--  NOMENU
new revision: 1.4; previous revision: 1.3
done
RCS file: /cvsroot/mozilla-org/html/projects/bonecho/index-2.0b1.html,v
done
Checking in index-2.0b1.html;
/cvsroot/mozilla-org/html/projects/bonecho/index-2.0b1.html,v  <--  index-2.0b1.html
initial revision: 1.1
done
RCS file: /cvsroot/mozilla-org/html/projects/bonecho/releases/2.0b1.html,v
done
Checking in releases/2.0b1.html;
/cvsroot/mozilla-org/html/projects/bonecho/releases/2.0b1.html,v  <--  2.0b1.html
initial revision: 1.1
done
Checking in releases/NOMENU;
/cvsroot/mozilla-org/html/projects/bonecho/releases/NOMENU,v  <--  NOMENU
new revision: 1.4; previous revision: 1.3
done

(In reply to comment #8)
> Still to do:
> 
>  - create and check in the new graphics

I've just used the old deerpark image for now.

>  - update /projects/bonecho/index.html to redirect to index-2.0b1.html if the
> user is using beta 1, or to the devnews post if the user is using an earlier
> version

I did not modify that file yet, as I'm not sure what the devnews post URL will be.

>  - fix bug 344156

Still waiting on what URLs exactly need to be redirected.

>  - think about creating a proper "Get the Firefox 2 Beta" page which would use
> download.js (see bug 344129)

I'll look into this one in a bit.


Jesse will probably do his usual http://www.squarefree.com/burningedge/releases/2.0b1.html page, I guess, so CC'ing.

Comment 10

[Reed Loden [:reed]]

(In reply to comment #5)
> Preed: can you verify that I have all the file names right in here?

Yeah, as I was going through the file, "firefox-2-beta1.tar.gz" looked a tad odd.

Comment 11

[Reed Loden [:reed]]

index-2.0b1.html has some text that states "Note:The Firefox 2 Beta 1 build you are using is NOT A FINAL OR PRE-RELEASE VERSION of Firefox, it has been made available for testing purposes only, with no end-user support.". Should that be changed to say something else, as with Firefox 2 Beta 1, branding is official and would be considered "pre-release" (I guess?).

Comment 12

[J. Paul Reed [:preed]]

(In reply to comment #5)
> Preed: can you verify that I have all the file names right in here?

Names are:

Linux: firefox-2.0b1.tar.gz
Mac: Firefox 2.0 Beta 1.dmg
Win32: Firefox Setup 2.0 Beta 1.exe

These are the final names as they appear on the ftp site now; the bits are on their way out to the mirrors so if we want to change the names to something else, I hope we can wait until b2.

These names were what the build scripts generated, based upon the version information.

The only one that looks a bit funky is Win32. It's similar to what's used for regular releases, and the 1.5b2 release, but 1.5b1 was done differently (likely because it was just en-US, not all the locales).

The release scripts handle all the renaming, so if we want to change it, let's file a bug to make the scripts do the right thing. :-/

Comment 13

[Steven Garrity [:sgarrity]]

I've checked in some graphics for the start page and the release notes. Let me know if there's any trouble with them. Might take a few minutes to get to the live servers.

Comment 14

[Mike Beltzner [:beltzner, not reading bugmail]]

(In reply to comment #11)
> index-2.0b1.html has some text that states "Note:The Firefox 2 Beta 1 build you
> are using is NOT A FINAL OR PRE-RELEASE VERSION of Firefox, it has been made
> available for testing purposes only, with no end-user support.". Should that be
> changed to say something else, as with Firefox 2 Beta 1, branding is official
> and would be considered "pre-release" (I guess?).

Yeah, I was wondering that last night at 2am, and decided to leave it, thinking "pre-release" meant "RC". Seems redundant either way, so let's just remove the "PRE-RELEASE" portion. Everything else in that statement is true, though.

Comment 15

[Mike Beltzner [:beltzner, not reading bugmail]]

Added a relnote for bug 344121:

Checking in mozilla-org/html/projects/bonecho/releases/2.0b1.html;
/cvsroot/mozilla-org/html/projects/bonecho/releases/2.0b1.html,v  <--  2.0b1.html
new revision: 1.5; previous revision: 1.4
done

Comment 16

[Mike Beltzner [:beltzner, not reading bugmail]]

(In reply to comment #9)
> > download.js (see bug 344129)
> 
> I'll look into this one in a bit.

Just for the sake of reference, reed's now doing this in bug 344375 :)

Comment 17

[Mike Beltzner [:beltzner, not reading bugmail]]

(In reply to comment #9)
> I did not modify that file yet, as I'm not sure what the devnews post URL will
> be.
> 
> >  - fix bug 344156

http://developer.mozilla.org/devnews/index.php/2006/07/12/firefox-2-beta-1-milestone-released/

Comment 18

[Mike Beltzner [:beltzner, not reading bugmail]]

Checking in mozilla-org/html/projects/bonecho/releases/2.0b1.html;
/cvsroot/mozilla-org/html/projects/bonecho/releases/2.0b1.html,v  <--  2.0b1.html
new revision: 1.7; previous revision: 1.6
done

updated the links to point to all-beta.html which was created by bug 344375

Comment 19

[Mike Beltzner [:beltzner, not reading bugmail]]

Checking in mozilla-org/html/projects/bonecho/index.html;
/cvsroot/mozilla-org/html/projects/bonecho/index.html,v  <--  index.html
new revision: 1.25; previous revision: 1.24
done

updated the redirect for the /projects/bonecho/index.html