991360 - Redirection error (404) in Add-on SDK page (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/developers/tools/builder)

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(addons.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Developer Pages, defect, P3)

Description

[mtdsousa]

:: Developer Documentation Request

      Request Type: Correction
     Gecko Version: 28 Branch
 Technical Contact: 

:: Details

In the page, in the link ("Extensive Documentation"), has an error: The Redirect happens to a page that doesn't exist (https://developer.mozilla.org/pt-BR/Add-ons/SDK).

I hope that that be useful.

Comment 1

[Will Bamberg [:wbamberg]]

Thanks for the report. I'm not sure what's going wrong here, exactly. I think (assume) that if a page doesn't exist for a particular locale then you should get the default version. I'm reassigning to the Mozilla Developer Network product, which should have more insight.

Comment 2

[ali spivak]

Were you originally on a translated page when this error occurred??

Comment 3

[mtdsousa]

I saw the page on originally (in English). First, the link (in https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/developers/tools/builder) points to [https://developer.mozilla.org/Add-ons/SDK] but appear that this link redirects to [https://developer.mozilla.org/pt-BR/Add-ons/SDK] that appears like "Not Found".

Comment 4

[Jean-Yves Perrier [:teoli]]

The bug is in addons.mozilla.org. Only they can fix the bad UX there.

They should have linked to https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/SDK and not https://developer.mozilla.org/Add-ons/SDK because the user has already done a choice on their side.

Not doing this force the MDN to "guess" what language the user expect. We do this using the Accept-language headers, but this doesn't tell us what the user really want: merely that he is using a browser with a UI in pt-BR. This is needed, but is only a fallback.

That's why, inside MDN, we try to always use the locale in the link: don't overrule an explicit choice.

Comment 5

[Wil Clouser [:clouserw]]

AMO is a separate site with a separate set of languages.  It's entirely possible they fell back to en-US on AMO and would rather have pt-BR (or any other language that MDN could offer and AMO could not).

Further, this URL is going to be in the middle of localized content as a placeholder which means AMO couldn't link to a specified language anyway. eg. https://github.com/mozilla/olympia/blob/master/locale/en_US/LC_MESSAGES/messages.po#L4170

Comment 6

[Jean-Yves Perrier [:teoli]]

The bug is on AMO. We can't do anything. I'm closing the bug.

Comment 7

[Mathieu Pillard [:mat]]

https://developer.mozilla.org/pt-BR/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/SDK does exist, the issue is that https://developer.mozilla.org/pt-BR/Add-ons/SDK doesn't redirect to that.

This was already reported, that's bug 933496

The workaround on the AMO side is to use https://developer.mozilla.org/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/SDK (basically find the "canonical" link without the language part - I found this one by looking at the breadcrumbs on the english page, replacing "en-US" by "docs", adding "Mozilla/" because it was in the breadcrumbs, and it worked)

We should look for other MDN links to apply this workaround to in AMO.

Comment 9

[Wil Clouser [:clouserw]]

Good catch Mathieu.  This is definitely an MDN bug, but it's easiest just to change the link: https://github.com/mozilla/olympia/commit/2ac36c990c054b2f61d6b7d09b536b2bef90b4f3

Comment 10

[Iulian Timis]

Verified as fixed in https://addons-dev.allizom.org/en-US/developers/tools/builder on FF30 (Win 7)
The link now redirects to https://developer.mozilla.org/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/SDK
Closing bug.