<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jul 8, 2016 at 12:27 PM, Lawrence Mandel <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lmandel@mozilla.com" target="_blank">lmandel@mozilla.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>We do in the case of 3rd party software referencing files from MXR (and I'm told there is a lot of this). </div></div></blockquote><div><br><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="gmail_default">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.<br><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="gmail_default">IMO we should redirect <a href="http://mxr.mozilla.org">mxr.mozilla.org</a> + <a href="http://lxr.mozilla.org">lxr.mozilla.org</a> to <a href="http://dxr.mozilla.org">dxr.mozilla.org</a>'s server and have some rewrite rules to fix the cases where the URL needs to change to retrieve the equivalent content.<br></div><br><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="gmail_default">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.<br></div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>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.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br><br></font></span></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">Lawrence</font></span><div><div class="h5"><br><div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jul 8, 2016 at 3:24 PM, Bobby Holley <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bobbyholley@gmail.com" target="_blank">bobbyholley@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>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.<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div>On Fri, Jul 8, 2016 at 12:20 PM, Lawrence Mandel <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lmandel@mozilla.com" target="_blank">lmandel@mozilla.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div>dev-platform was not included on my response below. Looping back in to this<br>
fork of the thread.<br>
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On Fri, Jul 8, 2016 at 10:55 AM, Lawrence Mandel <<a href="mailto:lmandel@mozilla.com" target="_blank">lmandel@mozilla.com</a>><br>
wrote:<br>
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> Sorry Dao. I have seen some responses. Maybe they were off list. We're<br>
> working on details now. I'm going to get someone to put the redirects in<br>
> place, likely with an interstitial page advising that MXR has been<br>
> decommissioned, by next week.<br>
><br>
> Lawrence<br>
><br>
><br>
> On Friday, 8 July 2016, Dão Gottwald <<a href="mailto:dgottwald@mozilla.com" target="_blank">dgottwald@mozilla.com</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
>> Why has nobody responded to the requests for a short-term fix for MXR<br>
>> URLs for more than a week? Are the people responsible for MXR not in this<br>
>> list?<br>
>><br>
>> 2016-07-07 18:23 GMT+02:00 Eric Shepherd <<a href="mailto:eshepherd@mozilla.com" target="_blank">eshepherd@mozilla.com</a>>:<br>
>><br>
>>> We have tons of mxr links all through MDN, fwiw. I am updating the<br>
>>> macros that generate them, but odds are very good these links will be<br>
>>> around for a good while.<br>
>>><br>
>>><br>
>>> That would be perfectly fine for my purposes, I expect, as long as it<br>
>>> dealt with the relevant mxr features. What I want is for links to possibly<br>
>>> specific lines of possibly specific revisions of specific files to work.<br>
>>> Ideally with the highlighting bits too.<br>
>>><br>
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