Closed
Bug 49367
Opened 24 years ago
Closed 18 years ago
Mozilla.org needs a sidebar server
Categories
(addons.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Public Pages, enhancement, P3)
addons.mozilla.org Graveyard
Public Pages
Tracking
(Not tracked)
VERIFIED
WONTFIX
People
(Reporter: dveditz, Assigned: morgamic)
References
(Blocks 1 open bug)
Details
Mozilla.org needs to set up a sidebar panel server so the Mozilla product can point somewhere besides Netscape.com to appease rabid anti-Netscape folks. Not that I can imagine a nearly empty sidebar server being all that useful, but apparently simply not using the sidebar is not an option.
Comment 1•24 years ago
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adding endico to this bug for her input. I like this idea. We could probably get a few panels set up. I suspect that mozillazine.org would let us mirror their channel and m.o could have a sidebar panel. I know there is a nice little bugzilla sidebar panel that the dino project guys put together.
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Comment 2•24 years ago
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Note that Mozilla.org wouldn't have to actually serve the panels, it just has to serve information about panels it knows about. It might be nice to have a lot of the linux/hacker oriented site panels available without suffering with the lame "My Netcenter" frame you get from the panels as served from the Netcenter server (Slashdot, HackerNewsNetwork, etc.)
Comment 3•24 years ago
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sounds like a good idea to me; Reassigning to Dawn
Assignee: mitchell → endico
Comment 4•24 years ago
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what exactly does a sidebar panel server need to provide? It would be a index of sidebar panels? And sidebar panels are just rss files, right? Would it make sense to get my.userland.com (or meerkat?) to do this instead since they already do rss indexing. http://www.oreillynet.com/meerkat/
Comment 5•24 years ago
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IDEA: The sidebar server should also allow people to upload their own sidebar pages for use on their browser. Another thing is that the sidebar server would allow it to make the sidebar much faster since the server could have its connection and would not have to share it with netscape.com servers.
Comment 6•24 years ago
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By the way, if it was implemented as indented options, it would be indented way too far.
Comment 7•24 years ago
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Please ignore that last submission - it was meant for another bug.
Comment 8•24 years ago
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Adding self.
Comment 9•24 years ago
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OK, I just got a chained system of 400 computers, each with 5000 processors. Any takers?
Comment 10•23 years ago
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While I agree the Mozilla needs it's own section for Sidebars, it's not because I dislike Netscape. Kudos, Netscape. Thanks for Mozilla. However, the problem is that the current Sidebar section is a) woefully out of date and b) moderated by people who don't appear to have the time or interest in maintaining it. I applied on dmoz.org to be an editor for the section only to get "The Netscape section cannot be moderated by external users" in reply. Fine, then at least turn it over to someone who has the time to maintain it. I believe the Sidebar is one of the more interesting components to Mozilla and would like to see it thrive. We've already built Flash-based MP3 player that lets you listen to our internal MP3 collection while you surf around and plan to build Sidebars for all our internal systems from CVS to LDAP. I suspect others are building interesting Sidebars, as well. It seems like setting up an additional server for this is overkill. Why not just use dmoz and point mozilla to: Top: Computers: Software: Internet: Clients: WWW: Browsers: Mozilla: Sidebars That seems like the simplest way to meet all the goals without introducing a ton of work. The hardest part is going to be coordinating with dmoz.org. If you folks like the idea, I'll even volunteer to edit it.
Comment 11•21 years ago
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*** Bug 216166 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 12•21 years ago
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Dare I say this issue needs greater urgency, given that the default route for getting sidebar panels is broken. See bug #214819. It would be nice to break all dependencies on netscape here.
Comment 13•21 years ago
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Looks like there's an easy short-term fix for bug 214819: redirecting from dmoz to the working netscape equivalent.
Updated•21 years ago
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Assignee: endico → stolenclover
Comment 14•19 years ago
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--> Server Operations Projects
Assignee: danielwang → nobody
Component: Miscellaneous → Server Operations Projects
QA Contact: justin
Comment 15•18 years ago
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This sounds like a natural extension to the addons site now that we have it, if we still need this.
Assignee: nobody → morgamic
Component: Server Operations Projects → Web Site
Product: mozilla.org → Update
QA Contact: justin → web-ui
Version: other → unspecified
WONTFIX; meaningless at this point.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 18 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
Updated•8 years ago
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Product: addons.mozilla.org → addons.mozilla.org Graveyard
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