349249 - Content needs to be updated - http://www.mozilla.org/quality/help/unconfirmed.html

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Developer Documentation Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Marcia Knous [:marcia]]

Dear Marcia and David,

I was messing around with Firefox today and decided to file a bug: my
first, and so I naturally looked to the website to find out how.
Unfortunately two of the pages I encountered were outdated, and your
names are on them, so here we are.  I'm not sure if David is still
actively maintaining the site; if not please direct me to whoever is
appropriate.

Both of these pages have links to the "current" or "latest" nightly
build, and between the two they managed to confuse me for some hours,
since neither has been changed to reflect the departure of SeaMonkey
from Mozilla.

In http://www.mozilla.org/quality/help/unconfirmed.html (Marcia, your
name is on the parent of this one), "current nightly build" points to
"//ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mozilla/nightly/latest/", which is
Mozilla, and none of it looks in the least nightly.

In http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/bugs (David, your name is on
this one), "latest nightly build" points to
"http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/",
which is Minefield.  The next three links are for Mozilla again, and
the one for "Mac OS X" is dead broken.

Now I'm not sure exactly what you want people to be using to test
random bugs, but my guess is Bon Echo, which neither of the pages
links to, and which I didn't discover existed until after reading
Marcia's August 9 post on Mozilla Quality, leading me finally to
"//ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-mozilla1.8".

Now I have Bon Echo and Minefield, but my bug persists in both, so I
still get to file it if I ever figure out how to use Bugzilla.
Anyway, thanks for your time.  I hope these pages get changed, because
you want up-to-date testers, right?

Comment 1

[Chris Ilias [:cilias]]

(In reply to comment #0)
> In http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/bugs (David, your name is on
> this one), "latest nightly build" points to
> "http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/",
> which is Minefield.  The next three links are for Mozilla again, and
> the one for "Mac OS X" is dead broken.

The bug for updating that page is bug 327750.
I've got a patch there, waiting for review.

Comment 2

[Lee-kai Wang]

(In reply to comment #0)
> In http://www.mozilla.org/quality/help/unconfirmed.html (Marcia, your
> name is on the parent of this one), "current nightly build" points to
> "//ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mozilla/nightly/latest/", which is
> Mozilla, and none of it looks in the least nightly.

Sorry, I forgot to mention one glitch on that page which I may as well: the link to "Bugzilla preferences" should have href="http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=permissions", not href="http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/userprefs.cgi?bank=permissions".

Thanks.

Comment 3

[David Boswell]

This page now lives on MDC at

http://developer.mozilla.org/en/Confirming_unconfirmed_bugs

Moving to Mozilla Developer Center product for discussion.

Comment 4

[John Karahalis [:openjck]]

Automatically closing all bugs that have not been updated in a while. Please reopen if this is still important to you and has not yet been corrected.

Comment 5

[John Karahalis [:openjck]]

Reopening for review by Sheppy.

Comment 6

[Eric Shepherd [:sheppy]]

These docs should be pretty good now.