Re: first (quick?) issue for the council -- fedora's default firefox page

Tristan Santore <tristan.santore@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> · Wed, 26 Nov 2014 18:26:05 +0000



    On 26/11/14 18:23, Cristian Gafton
      wrote:

    
    I had a similar thought, some kind of variable we can amend at will
    even, maybe a redirect or something might be less hard coded ? I am
    sure we can easily do that in infra. Of course then, the question
    remains, what do we want to achieve ? Should this be release
    specific ?

    
    Regards,

    Tristan

    
      Why isn't %{dist} embedded in some part of the
        start URL, giving you the option of controlling what users of
        the different releases get to see from the backend side?

      
            Cristian

            
        On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 9:53 AM,
          Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
          wrote:

          Hi
            everyone! Let's get right to business. I've got a request
            for a

            project-level decision. Up through and including Fedora 20,

            http://start.fedoraproject.org/
            was the default home page in Firefox.

            At a community member's suggestion, that was change to be

            "about:newtab" in Rawhide, and inherited into F21.

            
            Fedora Magazine is actually getting quite a bit of traffic
            from

            start.fpo, which means someone saw a headline there and
            clicked.

            
            Generating magazine traffic is good, but even more
            importantly, this is

            one of our key channels of communication to users. I talked
            to the

            Fedora Marketing and websites teams and there was broad
            consensus that

            we should go back to http://start.fedoraproject.org/.
            Allan Day, who

            filed the original request to change.

            
            Martin Stransky, the package maintainer, doesn't want to be
            changing

            back and forth based on whoever filed a bug last, and asks
            for a

            decision by Fedora governance.

            
            I guess my own opinion is clear — I think putting it to the
            Fedora page

            is best for the project. Because this change only affects
            the defaults

            set the first time someone opens Firefox in a new profile,
            it'd be nice

            to have this set by the F21 release — even though we're well
            into

            freeze territory, so that ship has probably sailed. Do we
            have quick

            consensus to make the change now? (If not, we'll figure out
            a

            longer-term solution for F22.)

            
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