On Fri, Jul 8, 2016 at 12:27 PM, Lawrence Mandel <lman...@mozilla.com> wrote:
> We do in the case of 3rd party software referencing files from MXR (and > I'm told there is a lot of this). > That's an existing problem which is orthogonal to the MXR decommissioning so that doesn't need to be solved now or block better solutions to the problem at hand. IMO we should redirect mxr.mozilla.org + lxr.mozilla.org to dxr.mozilla.org's server and have some rewrite rules to fix the cases where the URL needs to change to retrieve the equivalent content. Rewriting inbound links is addressing the problem at the wrong place IMO since there are so many links you won't be able to fix and there's not a good reason to break them. > 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> > 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> >> 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/> >>> >>> Blog: https://www.bitstampede.com/ >>> >>> Twitter: http://twitter.com/sheppy >>> >>> Doodle: 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 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
