442198 - Deal with old mlp/l10n docs

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

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

Description

[Axel Hecht [:Pike]]

Robert, this is the complete list we have right now, anything of that that needs to stay? Should the mlp_older stuff move over to seamonkey?

.htaccess
c11n_freeze.html
customizable-code.html
images/FfHowto_columns.png
images/FfHowto_export.png
images/FfHowto_translation.png
index.html
install.js
l10n-tools.html
l10n_eng_chklist.html
langen.js
langenus.js
mlp.html
mlp_chrome.html
mlp_distrib.html
mlp_docs.html
mlp_faq.html
mlp_glossary.html
mlp_hist.html
mlp_howto.html
mlp_howto_Firefox.html
mlp_howto_old.html
mlp_invite.html
mlp_older.html
mlp_older_1.0-1.6.html
mlp_otherproj.html
mlp_package_FF_macOSX.html
mlp_packaging.html
mlp_regional.html
mlp_status.html
mlp_tools.html
mlp_what2.html
ml_l12y.html
mozxlator.html
postinst-notes/fb061.html
postinst-notes/ff08.html
postinst-notes/sm10.html
postinst-notes/tb03.html
registration.html
regus.js
XosePuente_MT436_sbs.pdf
xul-l10n.html
xul-l12y.html

PS: both Robert and I have cvs write access, so we can fix this bug ourselves.

Comment 1

[Robert Kaiser]

Erm, you need to specify where to redirect to for every single page (or set of pages). You didn't specify any target and we probably need different targets for different docs.
I'd rather not have non-SeaMonkey pages on SeaMonkey, but the older downloads should be accessible with a big warning about being historic/archive stuff, ideally. We should redirect to the mozilla.org archive site probably, once everything there is ready, because we have a copy of the "old" mozilla.org (more or less current, has been cut a few weeks ago) up there and will have the whole site have big warnings about being archive stuff.

Comment 2

[Robert Kaiser]

It might be a good idea to add redirects from some of those docs to their up-to-date counterpart, but I don't have a list of such correspondent URLs. What we have, is an archive of mozilla.org though and all 404 pages on the actual site contain a link to their counterpart on the archive site.

So I think it's best to replace the main page with a short explanation and pointers to the current docs and the archive and just delete all the rest of the contents of the directory.

Comment 3

[Robert Kaiser]

Attachment: new MLP main page content

This is the new MLP main page I'm proposing - Axel, please take the review as a request for the rest of the plan as laid out in the last comment as well.

Comment 6

[Robert Kaiser]

Axel, could you please mention here what's your problem with that approach? We're having some of our pages removed there resulting in dead links because of the ongoing www.m.o cleanup effort and you personally have told me in Barcelona you're in favor of just removing this content which is basically what this patch is supposed to do..

Comment 7

[Robert Kaiser]

Comment on attachment 336263 [details]
new MLP main page content

From IRC:

<Pike> KaiRo: I'd remove it without placeholder. I'd think there would be only old legacy pages pointing there anyway. The placeholder is just making us discuss the same thing again later on, I'm afraid

("it" is the whole projects/l10n directory, actually)

Comment 8

[Robert Kaiser]

I still think that page directing people to better places would have been better, but I just did a cvs remove of the whole projects/l10n directory.

Comment 9

[David Boswell]

Kairo, thanks for taking care of this.  We can always add redirects or an explanatory page later if people get confused by the change.