688054 - Please set up mozilla.org/popcorn

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(mozilla.org Graveyard :: Webdev, task)

Description

[Ben Moskowitz]

We're currently designing a Wordpress-powered site to live at mozilla.org/popcorn. This will be the public face of the Popcorn project, and will route to all popcorn resources in the known universe.

We've filed a bug to set up a staging area at popcorn.mozillalabs.com. We'll design and test the site there.

Please advise on steps we need to take in anticipation of deploying at /popcorn.

Will add updates as the site develops.

Many thanks,
Ben

Comment 1

[Fred Wenzel [:wenzel]]

CCing John Slater, who's shepherding the mozilla.org project. I am not sure how a subdirectory off the main mozilla.org domain fits into the bigger picture. Any reason why this shouldn't be popcorn.mozilla.org?

Comment 2

[John Slater]

Here's a handy guide to help decide between popcorn.mozilla.org and mozilla.org/popcorn:
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Websites/Taskforce/Proposals/Domain_Name_Strategy#.22One_Mozilla.22_Strategy

Side question, but an important one: who's designing this site? Please do keep my team in the loop, and we can help if you need it.

Comment 3

[Brett Gaylor [:brett]]

Thanks, Fred.  To clarify this issue, I believe  Stephanie Schipper, our new VP of Web Stategy at the Foundation, met with John Slater.  It's my understanding that mozilla.org/popcorn is the proper implementation of the domain strategy - in many ways it is a "splash page" that guides users to the correct area of our project.  In the same way mozilla.org/firefox guides users to seperate channels, support, add ons etc - mozilla.org/popcorn will point users to our app, Popcorn Maker, our library popcorn.js and to our various events and outreach strategies. 

Hope that helps.

Comment 4

[Brett Gaylor [:brett]]

Mid air collision :)

Thanks for the task force document.  If I'm reading it correctly, we're on track.

We absolutely need help, John.  Maybe I'll drop you a line outside of this bug.

Comment 5

[Fred Wenzel [:wenzel]]

All right, if you need any help from the webdev side let us know. Looks like IT should be able to hook up your code as a subdirectory, without touching any of the existing mozilla.org infrastructure.

CCing cshields for a sanity check: Will we be able to run code in a subdirectory of mozilla.org that's completely unrelated to the PHP or bedrock code base? I am unfamiliar if Zeus can route requests based on path, or if we need to do this in Apache.

Comment 6

[Fred Wenzel [:wenzel]]

Corey also mentioned that because this would live underneath mozilla.org, it'd fall under the Bug Bounty and thus might have stricter security requirements. CCing mcoates from Infrasec: Can you please comment on comment 0 from infrasec's point of view?

Comment 7

[Corey Shields [:cshields]]

We have technical issues with setting up separate sites as subdirectories under the mozilla.org domain.

From IT's perspective, if this is not going to be a part of the bedrock code it should live in popcorn.mozilla.org

We should probably meet with John and Stephanie sometime to explain the issues behind such a move to mozilla.org/popcorn  (not to mention that it would place a wordpress site within the security bug bounty program whereas popcorn.mozilla.org would not)

Comment 8

[Fred Wenzel [:wenzel]]

mozilla.org/anything won't work for a WP-powered site, so I am closing this for now. Please reopen when you want to move forward on this with a different URL.