976070 - Provide a front-end on nightly.mo for community who want to use desktopb2g nightly

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Websites :: Other, defect)

Description

[Zac C (:zac)]

Regularly we see community people wanting to download and run desktopb2g builds to help out with Gaia tasks, either dev or QA or just to satisfy their own curiosity.

However in: http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/b2g/nightly/latest-mozilla-central/  it's just a raw directory with no information at all.

Community don't have a clue whether to download multi or multi-localizer or tests.zip. I don't even know what half of that stuff is. Then there's all the same again inside en-US/ directory.

We need a better entry point for community looking to get on board with desktopb2g.

nightly.mo site would suit it perfectly.

Comment 1

[[e-mail] (:bhearsum)]

I'm not sure who owns nightly.m.o...but this looks like the right component. Laura, do you know?

Comment 2

[Laura Thomson :laura]

Osmose and pmac tell me that it is, and now some relevant parties are cced.

Comment 3

[Zac C (:zac)]

Ben and Cmore, can you help out with getting a start on this?

Comment 4

[Chris More [:cmore]]

The http://nightly.mozilla.org website is owned by the Web Productions team and we sometimes make changes to it. We had plans in the future to pull it all into Bedrock, but we are focused on other projects now.

The code for the website is here:

https://github.com/mozilla/nocturnal/

Does someone want to do a pull request?

Comment 5

[Zac C (:zac)]

I'll give it a shot. I'll throw it back if I can't get something up in a reasonable time.

Comment 6

[Zac C (:zac)]

Attachment: github pr

This raises 2 new questions:

1. Ambiguity of "Desktop" and "Mobile" which probably should be renamed to "Desktop Firefox" and "Mobile Firefox" respectively.

2. Ambiguity between device Boot2Gecko and desktopb2g.

Are we allowed some tolerance in UX when the user is knowingly downloading nightly/experimental builds?

Comment 7

[Zac C (:zac)]

Attachment: Screenshot from 2014-02-25 20:52:29.png

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Comment 8

[Ben (:bensternthal)]

Thumbs up from me. 

If someone familiar with the codebase takes look at the PR and approves I don't see any issues.

Historically this looks to have been tofumatt or pmac. Zac I would mention their github username in the comment of the PR request so they know to take a look.

Comment 9

[Paul [:pmac] McLanahan]

(In reply to Zac C (:zac) from comment #6)
> 1. Ambiguity of "Desktop" and "Mobile" which probably should be renamed to
> "Desktop Firefox" and "Mobile Firefox" respectively.

I think the site is pretty clearly all about Firefox. Nightly is mostly about Firefox as far as I know. Thunderbird is "Daily" for example. 

> 2. Ambiguity between device Boot2Gecko and desktopb2g.

This is a bit more confusing. Perhaps the title should be "Desktop Boot2Gecko"? Nightly builds of the device version are available elsewhere, but there's no mention of that here. 

> Are we allowed some tolerance in UX when the user is knowingly downloading
> nightly/experimental builds?

We are indeed, but I think you're right that we should at least be clear when referring to B2G that we mean "for the desktop".

Comment 10

[Zac C (:zac)]

(In reply to Paul McLanahan [:pmac] from comment #9)
> > 2. Ambiguity between device Boot2Gecko and desktopb2g.
> 
> This is a bit more confusing. Perhaps the title should be "Desktop
> Boot2Gecko"? Nightly builds of the device version are available elsewhere,
> but there's no mention of that here. 
> 

Agree with this so I changed the label to "Desktop Boot2Gecko"

Comment 11

[[github robot]]

Commits pushed to master at https://github.com/mozilla/nocturnal

https://github.com/mozilla/nocturnal/commit/b0bf1e7ed5356c68d3ba92f8c61acdd08a1cbeb9
Bug 976070: Add scraping for Boot2Gecko (desktopb2g builds)

https://github.com/mozilla/nocturnal/commit/a15f6177e05d0e75fba3720c04c21df10c2f83e3
Merge pull request #24 from zacc/bug_976060

Bug 976070: Add scraping for Boot2Gecko (desktopb2g builds)

Comment 12

[Zac C (:zac)]

Thanks pmac, this will be a great entry point for community wanting to work with Boot2Gecko.

Comment 13

[Paul [:pmac] McLanahan]

New info in production! http://nightly.mozilla.org/

Thanks again :zac!