Closed Bug 754109 Opened 12 years ago Closed 12 years ago

Download on SeaMonkey website offers 1.1.16 release and outdated news

Categories

(SeaMonkey :: Website, defect)

Product:
SeaMonkey
Component:
Website
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
major

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
VERIFIED FIXED

People

(Reporter: rsx11m.pub, Unassigned)

References

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URL
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Details

Reported by Lynne-NY on MZ, thanks to James for bringing this to my attention.

For an unknown period of time, http://www.seamonkey-project.org/ offers an old (SM 1.1.16) version for download, and the most recent news is April 8, 2009. http://www.seamonkey-project.org/news doesn't show anything newer either.

Apparently something out of sync?
The reporter in the MZ thread stated that he or she got an "Outdated version" warning after a rebooting the machine (Windows XP). Neither James nor myself were able to reproduce this, invoking an update from an installed SM 2.9 gave me 2.9.1 and checking from 2.9.1 provided the expected notice that no update was found. Thus, hopefully this affects only the main web site but not the AUS servers.
probably related to the move to the new data center. A SHIFT-REFRESH appears to clear out the cached versions from the load balancing proxies and now I can see the latest versions.
There was an IT problem that made the website rewind to an ancient state, but that has been solved for now after I poked people on IRC.
CCing jakem in case there's more to track for this.
Looks ok now - almost, that is: While the content seems to be up to date again, the menu to the left shows some double escapes like "&" resulting in "Download & Releases" rather than just the '&'.
The SM 2.10 Beta 1 pages show up fine for me and thus apparently propagated well.
Is anybody looking into the double-'&' issue with the side left-menu? I don't see where this code is coming from...
(In reply to rsx11m from comment #5)
> The SM 2.10 Beta 1 pages show up fine for me and thus apparently propagated
> well.

Yes, the actual content issues have been fixed meanwhile. We're not back to completely working updates (i.e. there's currently still the need to have Mozilla IT push website changes for us), but otherwise it's OK now.

> Is anybody looking into the double-'&' issue with the side left-menu? I
> don't see where this code is coming from...

It's yet unknown. There are multiple levels of parsing between the source (an XML file, which contains the &) and the result (plain HTML file which should only contain &). Different setups (e.g. perl module versions) produce different results; locally it's working fine for me.

Anyway, we'll look into this eventually. I just prioritized the 2.10 relnote updates (which are complete now).
If it can't be easily fixed, how about using a character other than '&' for the time being, such as '+' or '/' which aren't subject to escape rules? Or just an explicit "and" which would still look better than the currently shown "&"?
The && bug is being handled in Bug 756900
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 12 years ago
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
Thanks, let's resolve this FIXED though given that something was done here per KaiRo's comment #3.
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Resolution: WORKSFORME → FIXED
Product: Websites → SeaMonkey
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