736558 - Retire Firefox Live site on 3/30

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

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

Description

[William Reynolds [:williamr]]

We've brought a lot of cuteness to the world with Firefox Live, but it's time to retire the site as the cubs are growing up.

We'd like to EOL http://mozilla.org/firefoxlive/ on Thursday March 22 and have the URL redirect to a blog post that will be published on blog.mozilla.com. On Wednesday once I have the URL for the blog post, I'll add it to this bug.

Please let me know if anything else is needed for retiring this site. Thanks!

Comment 1

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

this site (including redirects) is all in SVN and handled by the content folks.

Comment 2

[William Reynolds [:williamr]]

Thanks Dave.

Similar to retiring Firefox Live year, we would like to space out the blog post and site retirement a few days. We'll go ahead with publishing the blog post on 3/22 as planned. Then we'll retire the site and add the redirect to the blog post on 3/27.

Fred, can you find someone to help with this on 3/27 please? Thanks!

Comment 3

[Fred Wenzel [:wenzel]]

Do you need access to http://blog.mozilla.com/website-archive/ to write your blog post?

jlongster, can you make a redirect and remove the fxlive code for the 27th, when we have a URL? Should be simple to turn off.

Comment 4

[William Reynolds [:williamr]]

(In reply to Fred Wenzel [:wenzel] from comment #3)
> Do you need access to http://blog.mozilla.com/website-archive/ to write your
> blog post?

Yes please.

Comment 5

[Fred Wenzel [:wenzel]]

(In reply to William Reynolds [:williamr] from comment #4)
> Yes please.

I added you, it should have sent you an invite. Let me know how it goes!

Comment 6

[William Reynolds [:williamr]]

The blog post on the Website Archive blog is staged and ready to be published. The URL will be http://blog.mozilla.com/website-archive/2012/03/28/firefox-live-part-2/ (note: the date in the URL may need to be updated).

jlongster, let me know if there's anything else you need from me. Thanks!

Comment 7

[James Long (:jlongster)]

I need to know the exact URL to use, that won't be changed. It also needs to be live before I push. Once I have that I can push the redirect live.

Comment 8

[William Reynolds [:williamr]]

Thanks James - here is the exact URL for the redirect:

http://blog.mozilla.com/website-archive/2012/03/30/firefox-live-part-2/

Comment 9

[James Long (:jlongster)]

done, William can you test on http://www-dev.allizom.org ?

Comment 10

[William Reynolds [:williamr]]

(In reply to James Long (:jlongster) from comment #9)
> done, William can you test on http://www-dev.allizom.org ?

Redirect is working for me on http://www-dev.allizom.org

Comment 11

[James Long (:jlongster)]

pushed to production r103696

Comment 12

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

Verified FIXED.