581094 - host TabCandy firstrun video on the CDN

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(mozilla.org Graveyard :: Server Operations, task, P1)

Description

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

TabCandy has a first run experience that loads and displays a video, which is hosted remotely. We'd like to host that on the CDN somewhere so that we don't overload the servers.

Aza will attach a WebM version of the video shortly.

Comment 1

[Aza Raskin [:aza]]

While this isn't the first-run experience video (which still needs to be converted), I do have the video explaining what Tab Candy is which would be good to CDN host.

http://people.mozilla.com/~araskin/movies/tabcandy.webm

I'll attach the other movie once it is converted.

Comment 2

[Aza Raskin [:aza]]

Here is the movie to host.

http://people.mozilla.org/~araskin/movies/tabcandy_howto.webm

Comment 3

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

We need this on the CDN, pronto. Tabcandy just landed on mozilla-central, starting with tomorrow's nightly we're about to have 10,000+ people hitting this video.

We'll also need a 302 or other form of redirect for the people.mozilla.org link, or a change to the tabcandy code to point to the better URL.

Comment 4

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

Also, the sooner we know the URL the better, as we'll need to check that in to the tree so it's pointing to the right place :)

Comment 5

[Zandr Milewski [:zandr]]

Hosted on the CDN now:
http://videos-cdn.mozilla.net/firefox4beta/tabcandy_howto.webm

That's live now, will now attempt to shove a 301 into Aza's directory on people.

Comment 6

[Zandr Milewski [:zandr]]

And done. 
Aza: note that ~azaraskin/movies/tabcandy_howto.webm redirects to videos-cdn, so if you want to update the video, we should talk.

Comment 7

[Aza Raskin [:aza]]

Awesome, thanks Zandr!

I'll poke you when (in the next days/week) I'll make a moar better version of that video.

Comment 8

[Zandr Milewski [:zandr]]

The path going forward:
Change the checked in code to point at the new URL.
After nightlies with the new URL are in the wild, we can remove the rewrite rule.
Get me (or anyone in infra) to upload new versions of the video when they're ready for the masses. videos-cdn automagically picks up from videos, aka dm-download02.