617640 - bug writing guidelines direct you to "404 not found" for nightly builds

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 399772

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

Description

[gld199]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101026 Firefox/3.6.12 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Build Identifier: 

I wanted to submit a Thunderbird bug, and am not experienced at doing this. I read the Bug Writing Guidelines:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Bug_writing_guidelines

"Preliminaries 1. Reproduce your bug using a recent build of the software, to see whether it has already been fixed." points me to:
http://www.mozilla.org/developer/#builds

Under "For testers" it points you to where you can download nightly builds for Mozilla projects. Almost all the links in the list get you "404 not found" errors. I ended up submitting my bug without checking a nightly build, which is not something you're trying to encourage.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to http://www.mozilla.org/developer/#builds
2. Follow a link under Nightly Builds for a named operating system

Broken "nightly build" links:
The first 5 of 7 links under Firefox
The first 3 of 4 under Thunderbird
The first 4 of 5 under Seamonkey
Actual Results:  
404 not found

Expected Results:  
access to a nightly build download

If I knew the correct urls, I could have edited this myself. But I don't.