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.
> >>>
> >>>
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