618157 - Domain Name Change - input.mozilla.com to input.mozilla.org

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Input Graveyard :: Backend, enhancement)

Description

[Laura Forrest]

Please change the domain name of input.mozilla.com to input.mozilla.org.

This is part of the overall domain name strategy project driven by the website taskforce. 

Please have the .com redirect to the .org. 

More details here: 
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Websites/Taskforce/Proposals/Domain_Name_Strategy

Here's a link to the overall tracking bug for this project: 
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=606278

Comment 1

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

Pretty sure you didn't want to assign this to Mozilla Messaging server ops.

Comment 2

[Aakash Desai [:aakashd]]

Stupid question: what happens when a user types in input.mozilla.com ?

Comment 3

[Dave Dash [:davedash, :dd] (assign all bugs to mbrandt)]

(In reply to comment #2)
> Stupid question: what happens when a user types in input.mozilla.com ?

"Please have the .com redirect to the .org."

Comment 4

[Aakash Desai [:aakashd]]

right..

Comment 5

[Fred Wenzel [:wenzel]]

On the app's side, the Sites data (django admin site -> Sites) needs to be changed when this happens.

We also need to ensure that our Zeus settings will be applied to the new domain.

Comment 6

[matthew zeier [:mrz]]

No redirect.  CNAME only.  

input.mozilla.com is an in-product URL and I haven't seen any plans to backport this name change or replace it in future versions of Firefox.

Comment 7

[David Boswell]

Now that Firefox 4 is out and we're starting to move public sites from mozilla.com to mozilla.org again (see bug 606326 for the air.mozilla.org change two weeks ago) can we talk about scheduling a switch from input.mozilla.com to input.mozilla.org?

Comment 8

[Fred Wenzel [:wenzel]]

This looks like it's not ready for IT to act on it yet. Over to Input for the product decision and triage. Assigning to Aakash.

The Input devs can push this back to IT with concrete instructions later.

Comment 9

[Aakash Desai [:aakashd]]

We'll need to file a bug to patch the in-product URLs as a long-term solution for that part of this bug. Once that bug is fixed and pushed onto into a release of Firefox (about 2 quarter time frame if we do it now).

Otherwise, *thumbs up*

Comment 10

[Dave Dash [:davedash, :dd] (assign all bugs to mbrandt)]

Aakash, should we start the IT process now then?  They can set it up so everything redirects to .org.  Then when the product changes everyone is spared a redirect, but effectively nothing changes on the UX end.

Comment 11

[Aakash Desai [:aakashd]]

Fine with me as long as it won't take up more than 5-10 minutes of your time; otherwise, I'd prefer to wait for this after the 4.2 code freeze :).

Comment 12

[Aakash Desai [:aakashd]]

updated URLs for TestPilot and Firefox Client:

https://github.com/sammybahamas/testpilot/commit/52bb258619eddfc97ae846ddc1c17ec791121b42

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=565550

Comment 13

[Aakash Desai [:aakashd]]

Ok, we have the patch ready to go for Firefox in bug 618189. Gavin would like to have the necessary changes to be made soon after the change is put into nightlies, so we can make sure this is working. 

Fred, Dave or Chrie: can you follow up with IT?

Comment 14

[Fred Wenzel [:wenzel]]

Dave, can you take a look?

Also keep in mind that the app uses the Django Sites framework to distinguish between the mobile and desktop site, so that'd need to change via the admin interface.

Comment 15

[Dave Dash [:davedash, :dd] (assign all bugs to mbrandt)]

Yes, Aakashd, what's the ETA for this to land in release?  I'll set a target date with IT for then.

Also will look at the sites framework stuff as well.

Comment 16

[Aakash Desai [:aakashd]]

Can we stagger it a bit and do it earlier like in the next few weeks, Dave? 

It'd be good to test this on Nightlies for Fx10 rather than later. If we find issues later in the aurora or beta process, the required changes on the Fx side will require updates to multiple channels.


If it's Nightlies, we can set up a time in the next 2-3 weeks.

Comment 17

[Dave Dash [:davedash, :dd] (assign all bugs to mbrandt)]

So Nov 1st?

Comment 18

[Aakash Desai [:aakashd]]

Sounds good; Gavin, davedash can work this in on Nov. 1st. The merge from Nightly to Aurora seems to be on 11/8, so we can land whenever.

Comment 19

[Aakash Desai [:aakashd]]

It looks like the 3-4 bugs we have on file are ready to go here. Anyone want to mention any blockers still left?

Comment 20

[Aakash Desai [:aakashd]]

Un-assigning myself. Waiting on bug 664176 at this point.

Comment 21

[Shyam Mani [:fox2mike]]

This is now complete.

Comment 22

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

Not sure this caused bug 747316, but it's definitely fallout, likely from the app side?