620461 - Need "upgrade to the latest stable version" criteria

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Input :: General, defect, P1)

Description

[Fred Wenzel [:wenzel]]

If a user tries to give beta feedback but isn't on a beta, we show the "need beta" page. We should show a similar page for people who try to give stable feedback without a latest stable Firefox version.

We need criteria for showing the page.

Dave Dash and I came up with the following idea: Allow feedback from users on a version >= the latest minor version.

Examples:
-- user: 4.1.5, latest: 4.1.0 --> ok
-- user: 4.2.0, latest: 4.1.0 --> ok
-- user: 4.1.5, latest: 4.1.8 --> ok
-- user: 4.1.9, latest: 4.2.0 --> not ok

Further, do we need to detect if this is a non-stable version and also reject the user's feedback (or forward them to feedback/beta)?

The idea is that you should be able to give feedback for Firefox even if there was a dot release during the last week or so.

Comment 1

[Fred Wenzel [:wenzel]]

I just implemented the aforementioned criteria on the stable-feedback branch. Please either approve (so I can close this bug) or let me know what alternative rules you want to apply.

For the download page text, I used the text below, and am happy to update that as well.

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"Oh! So, you want to offer us feedback on Firefox. Thank you, but you'll need to be on the latest version.

To do that, simply go to our download page and install/update to the latest version of Firefox!"

Comment 2

[Aakash Desai [:aakashd]]

hilarity, I posted the need for this bug in another bug. Anyways...


That looks fine. Re-assigning back to wenzel.

Comment 3

[Fred Wenzel [:wenzel]]

All right, this is how I implemented this. Please reopen or file a new bug if tweaks are needed.

Comment 4

[Rebecca Billings [:rbillings]]

Verified that versions earlier than last version [3.6] get the need new version message, and all more recent versions after that show data [and no message].