369727 - Whatsnew page is 404

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 364446

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

Description

[Ed Avis]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a3pre) Gecko/20070207 Minefield/3.0a3pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a3pre) Gecko/20070207 Minefield/3.0a3pre

I updated Minefield to the latest nightly using the automatic update, pressed the button to restart it and it restarted showing the URI <http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox/3.0a3pre/whatsnew/>.  But that page is 404.

Reproducible: Always




It would be cool if mozilla.org had some magic way of noticing when a Mozilla-distributed browser were automatically accessing a page on the site, and then could automatically file bug reports or something when the page isn't there.

Comment 1

[Nick Thomas [:nthomas] (UTC+12)]

Based on what happened for 3.0a2pre, this will be a WONTFIX.

Comment 2

[Ed Avis]

This also happens for the alpha 4 release.  <http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox/3.0a4pre/whatsnew/>.

If the Mozilla website admins don't intend to put a web page there, it might be better to disable the startup page altogether for alpha releases.

Comment 3

[Nick Thomas [:nthomas] (UTC+12)]

Ed, the 404 only applies to nightlies, which carry the pre suffix on the version. The 3.0a3 release page 
  http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox/3.0a3/whatsnew/
works just fine, and the 3.0a4 one will be created when that release happens.