Hi, Kendall. As a pain mitigation strategy for MXR URLs embedded immutably in Bugzilla and in people's Awesomebar histories, can we redirect MXR requests as Dão suggests? Some won't work, but many will, and those people will be less sad.
> On Jun 30, 2016, at 10:20 , Dão Gottwald <dgottw...@mozilla.com> wrote: > > Can we please automatically redirect from > https://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/x/y.z to > https://dxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/x/y.z? My browsing history > is littered with mxr URLs which used to make it very easy to find a file by > typing part of the name. As it stands all those URLs are broken. > > 2016-06-22 20:30 GMT+02:00 Lawrence Mandel <lman...@mozilla.com>: > >> Mozilla Cross-Reference, better known as MXR (https://mxr.mozilla.org), >> was taken offline on June 13, 2016, to investigate a potential security >> issue. After careful review of the codebase, we have decided to accelerate >> the planned transition from MXR to its more modern equivalent, DXR ( >> https://dxr.mozilla.org), instead of bringing MXR back online. As far as >> we know there was never a security compromise, but the unsupported legacy >> codebase (forked from an old version of LXR) would require significant time >> and effort to rewrite and bring up to spec. >> >> Our transition plan is as follows: >> >> >> - >> >> Add an interstitial web page at https://mxr.mozilla.org that displays >> a best-guess URL for the equivalent https://dxr.mozilla.org file data. >> This will help interactive users retrieve data from historical links in >> applications like Bugzilla. >> - >> >> Redirect certdata.txt and effective_tld_names.dat to their canonical >> source code repositories instead of DXR. All other search queries and >> automatic pulling of raw files by third parties will no longer be supported >> at the https://mxr.mozilla.org URL. >> - >> >> Index the remaining repos listed in MXR in DXR for data parity, using >> bug 1281443 to track progress. Repos will be indexed in the order listed >> unless otherwise specified. If you need to prioritize the indexing of >> specific repos, please open a bug and block against bug 1281443. >> >> >> Our expectation is that the interstitial page will be in place and the >> following remaining high-priority repos will be indexed by June 24th, 2016: >> >> - >> >> add-ons >> - >> >> servo >> - >> >> l10n >> >> >> If you have concerns, questions, or requests, please open a new bug and >> mark it as blocking bug 1281443 or add a comment to one of its existing >> dependent bugs. Additional status updates will also be posted to bug >> 1281443 and its dependent bugs. >> >> Lawrence >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
