I filed bug 1285657 to rewrite MXR links in Bugzilla to DXR. Are there other sites (MDN) that have a lot of links that we should look to rewrite?
Lawrence On Fri, Jul 8, 2016 at 3:49 PM, Gijs Kruitbosch <gijskruitbo...@gmail.com> wrote: > The problem is that if you're on a bmo page with these "perma"links, > really the ideal case is that they are indeed permalinks and continue to > work, especially where they point to specific lines in specific revisions. > The interstitial just makes it harder for people to get to that info. A 404 > on a working DXR, if the file has really disappeared or something, is still > better than the 'hard hat' page from which the path to the data you want is > much longer. > > In case this is useful for folks: I wrote a webextension that rewrites > these links and that obeys the "rev" and "mark" query params from MXR links > and rewrites them to the equivalent DXR URL syntax: > https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/mxr-to-dxr-webextension/ . > > ~ Gijs > > > On 08/07/2016 20:27, Lawrence Mandel wrote: > > We do in the case of 3rd party software referencing files from MXR (and > I'm told there is a lot of this). We also can't guarantee that MXR URLs > will direct to the right place in DXR. There is likely a balance to be > struck here with highly referenced files from 3rd party software getting an > interstitial page and other files not getting the page. Let's start with > getting the page with the redirect in place and then iterate from there as > required. > > Lawrence > > On Fri, Jul 8, 2016 at 3:24 PM, Bobby Holley < <bobbyhol...@gmail.com> > bobbyhol...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Can we skip the interstitial page and make the notice (if any) more >> unobtrusive somehow? There are tons of mxr links all over the place, and >> many of them are immutable. We don't gain anything by informing the viewer >> about their obsolescence instead of showing them the content they want. >> >> On Fri, Jul 8, 2016 at 12:20 PM, Lawrence Mandel < <lman...@mozilla.com> >> lman...@mozilla.com> wrote: >> >>> dev-platform was not included on my response below. Looping back in to >>> this >>> fork of the thread. >>> >>> On Fri, Jul 8, 2016 at 10:55 AM, Lawrence Mandel <lman...@mozilla.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>> > Sorry Dao. I have seen some responses. Maybe they were off list. We're >>> > working on details now. I'm going to get someone to put the redirects >>> in >>> > place, likely with an interstitial page advising that MXR has been >>> > decommissioned, by next week. >>> > >>> > Lawrence >>> > >>> > >>> > On Friday, 8 July 2016, Dão Gottwald <dgottw...@mozilla.com> wrote: >>> > >>> >> Why has nobody responded to the requests for a short-term fix for MXR >>> >> URLs for more than a week? Are the people responsible for MXR not in >>> this >>> >> list? >>> >> >>> >> 2016-07-07 18:23 GMT+02:00 Eric Shepherd <esheph...@mozilla.com>: >>> >> >>> >>> We have tons of mxr links all through MDN, fwiw. I am updating the >>> >>> macros that generate them, but odds are very good these links will be >>> >>> around for a good while. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> That would be perfectly fine for my purposes, I expect, as long as it >>> >>> dealt with the relevant mxr features. What I want is for links to >>> possibly >>> >>> specific lines of possibly specific revisions of specific files to >>> work. >>> >>> Ideally with the highlighting bits too. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> >>> >>> >>> Eric Shepherd >>> >>> Senior Technical Writer >>> >>> Mozilla Developer Network < <https://developer.mozilla.org/> >>> https://developer.mozilla.org/> >>> >>> Blog: <https://www.bitstampede.com/>https://www.bitstampede.com/ >>> >>> Twitter: <http://twitter.com/sheppy>http://twitter.com/sheppy >>> >>> Doodle: <http://doodle.com/the.sheppy>http://doodle.com/the.sheppy >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> >>> firefox-dev mailing list >>> >>> firefox-...@mozilla.org >>> >>> https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/firefox-dev >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> dev-platform mailing list >>> dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org >>> https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform >>> >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > firefox-dev mailing > listfirefox-dev@mozilla.orghttps://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/firefox-dev > > > _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
