Bug 1703359 - Update support groups - Merge branch 'staging'

src/community.en.html

@@ -20,9 +20,8 @@ Development of the SeaMonkey Internet Application suite software wouldn't be
 possible without the vibrant community of developers and users that form the
 SeaMonkey Project.
 <br>This page gives you some pointers of how to get in contact or be a part of
-our community. For a perspective of the wider Mozilla community that we are a
-part of, read the <a href="http://www.mozilla.org/community/">mozilla.org community page</a>.
-</P>
+our community.
+</p>
 
 <ul class="toc">
 <li><a href="#groups">Newsgroups / Mailing Lists</a></li>
@@ -33,46 +32,76 @@ part of, read the <a href="http://www.mozilla.org/community/">mozilla.org commun
 <li><a href="#bugreport">Reporting a Bug</a></li>
 </ul>
 
-<h2 id="groups">Newsgroups / Mailing Lists</h2>
-
 <p>
-The main channel of community activity within the SeaMonkey project are the
-newsgroups hosted at mozilla.org, each of which are mirrored as mailing lists.
-<br>Please read the <a href="http://www.mozilla.org/community/developer-forums.html">mozilla.org
-developer forums page</a> for more info about those groups / lists. This page
-also lists lots of similar forums for other mozilla.org projects as well as
-technical topics related to Mozilla technology.
+The main channels of community activity within the SeaMonkey project are the
+newsgroup alt.comp.software.seamonkey, the SeaMonkey forums at mozillaZine and
+our irc channel on freenode.
+<br>This page also lists other sites covering technical and other topics
+related to SeaMonkey.
 </p>
 
-<p>Please read the <a href="http://www.mozilla.org/community/etiquette.html">Mozilla forum
-etiquette</a> document for posting rules and conventions.</p>
+<h2 id="groups">Newsgroups / Mailing Lists</h2>
 
+<p>Please read the <a href="https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1855.txt">
+Netiquette Guidelines</a> for posting rules and conventions.</p>
 <dl>
-  <dt id="support-seamonkey">mozilla.support.seamonkey</dt>
+  <dt id="support-comp-seamonkey">Newsgroup: alt.comp.software.seamonkey</dt>
+  <dd>
+    <p>
+    The  group is used for end-user and developer support. Ask any question
+    about SeaMonkey, code, management, the project or development here.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+    The newsgroup is already carried by many servers right now. If your
+    provider does not carry it you can subscribe for free via aioe.org by
+    clicking on the following link:
+    <br>
+    <a href="news://news.aioe.org/alt.comp.software.seamonkey">
+      subscribe to alt.comp.software.seamonkey</a>
+    </p>
+  </dd>
+  <dt id="support-seamonkey">Mailing List:
+    support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org</dt>
   <dd>
     <p>
-    End-user support, ask user questions about SeaMonkey here.
+    The previous mozilla.support.seamonkey newsgroup has been replaced with
+    this mailing list for end-user support. You can ask user questions about
+    SeaMonkey here.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+    You can subscribe by sending an email to
+    support-seamonkey+subscribe@lists.mozilla.org .
+    <br>
+    The list is hosted on Google groups and you can access it via
+    <a href="https://groups.google.com/a/lists.mozilla.org/g/support-seamonkey/">
+      Google groups support-seamonkey</a>
+    <br>
+    You can find an archive of the old Google group here:
+    <a href="https://groups.google.com/g/mozilla.support.seamonkey/">
+       mozilla.support.seamonkey archive</a>
     </p>
-    <ul class="subscribe">
-      <li>Newsgroup: <a href="news://news.mozilla.org/mozilla.support.seamonkey">mozilla.support.seamonkey</a></li>
-      <li>Mailing List: support&#45;seamonkey&#64;lists&#46;mozilla.org
-        <a href="https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey">subscribe/unsubscribe</a></li>
-      <li>Google Groups: <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.support.seamonkey">view topics</a></li>
-    </ul>
   </dd>
 
-  <dt id="dev-apps-seamonkey">mozilla.dev.apps.seamonkey</dt>
+  <dt id="dev-apps-seamonkey">Mailing List:
+    dev-apps-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org</dt>
   <dd>
     <p>
-    This forum is for code questions, project management and development
-    discussion within the SeaMonkey project.
+    The previous mozilla.dev.apps.seamonkey newsgroup has been replaced with
+    this mailing list for more technical discussions. You can ask questions
+    about code, project management and development here.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+    You can subscribe by sending an email to
+    dev-apps-seamonkey+subscribe@lists.mozilla.org .
+    <br>
+    The list is hosted on Google groups and you can access it via
+    <a href="https://groups.google.com/a/lists.mozilla.org/g/dev-apps-seamonkey/">
+      Google groups dev-apps-seamonkey</a>
+    <br>
+    You can find an archive of the old Google group here:
+    <a href="https://groups.google.com/g/mozilla.dev.apps.seamonkey/">
+       mozilla.dev.apps.seamonkey archive</a>
     </p>
-    <ul class="subscribe">
-      <li>Newsgroup: <a href="news://news.mozilla.org/mozilla.dev.apps.seamonkey">mozilla.dev.apps.seamonkey</a></li>
-      <li>Mailing List: dev-apps&#45;seamonkey&#64;lists&#46;mozilla.org
-        <a href="https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-apps-seamonkey">subscribe/unsubscribe</a></li>
-      <li>Google Groups: <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.apps.seamonkey">view topics</a></li>
-    </ul>
   </dd>
 </dl>
 
@@ -86,7 +115,9 @@ SeaMonkey with the ChatZilla IRC Client installed, which you should have with
 a full installation.)
 <p>
 </p>
-There is also the <a href="https://chat.mozilla.org/#/room/#seamonkey:mozilla.org">SeaMonkey room on Matrix</a> which bridges through to the
+There is also the
+<a href="https://chat.mozilla.org/#/room/#seamonkey:mozilla.org">
+  SeaMonkey room on Matrix</a> which bridges through to the
 <a href="irc://freenode/SeaMonkey">#seamonkey channel on freenode.net</a>.
 For more information on Matrix and other rooms on it, look on the
 <a href="https://wiki.mozilla.org/Matrix">Mozilla Wiki</a>.
@@ -95,11 +126,11 @@ For more information on Matrix and other rooms on it, look on the
 <h2 id="blogs">Weblogs</h2>
 
 <p>
-News from different parts of the Mozilla project and the SeaMonkey project are
+News from different parts of the SeaMonkey project and Mozilla projects are
 also published on developers' and projects' weblogs ("blogs"). Those provide
 current information about development and releases as well as interesting
-insights of what's happening in the community and can usually be read
-conveniently with a feed reader application or SeaMonkey extension.
+insights of what's happening in the community and can usually also be read
+conveniently with the built-in SeaMonkey feed reader.
 </p>
 
 <dl class="sitelist">
@@ -127,9 +158,9 @@ conveniently with a feed reader application or SeaMonkey extension.
 <p>
 A community product like SeaMonkey heavily relies on users building a support
 and discussion network to help each other with questions and problems regarding
-the use of the software. This is happening directly at mozilla.org through the
-above mentioned communication channels, and in several other places, the most
-important of which are listed in this section.
+the use of the software. This is happening through the above mentioned
+communication channels, and in several other places, the most important of
+which are listed in this section.
 </p>
 
 <dl class="sitelist">
@@ -163,27 +194,8 @@ websites that provide lists and install possibilities for those add-ons.
 
   <dd>
     <p>
-    The official SeaMonkey Add-Ons website is hosted by Mozilla, please use
-    this as your primary source for add-ons.
-    </p>
-  </dd>
-
-  <dt><a href="http://www.mozdev.org/projects/applications/SeaMonkey.html">mozdev.org</a></dt>
-
-  <dd>
-    <p>
-    The mozdev.org site is hosting numerous Mozilla-related projects, among
-    those is a big number of add-ons working with SeaMonkey.
-    </p>
-  </dd>
-
-  <dt><a href="http://xsidebar.mozdev.org/modifiedmisc.html">Modified Firefox Extensions</a></dt>
-
-  <dd>
-    <p>
-    The xSidebar extension provides Firefox-style sidebar support in SeaMonkey
-    and hosts a list of add-ons that were originally developed for Firefox but
-    modified to work with SeaMonkey.
+    The official SeaMonkey Add-Ons website is hosted by the Thunderbird
+    project, please use this as your primary source for add-ons.
     </p>
   </dd>
 </dl>
@@ -201,15 +213,6 @@ websites that provide lists and install possibilities for those add-ons.
     supported.</b>
     </p>
   </dd>
-
-  <dt><a href="http://planet.mozilla.org/">Planet Mozilla</a></dt>
-  <dd>
-    <p>
-    Planet Mozilla is a central hub for Mozilla-related weblogs and features
-    all kinds of news and developer statements from all around our big
-    community, of which the SeaMonkey project is only one part.
-    </p>
-  </dd>
 </dl>
 
 <h2 id="bugreport">Reporting a Bug</h2>
@@ -219,7 +222,7 @@ Any change that is made to SeaMonkey requires a so-called "bug" to be filed in
 Mozilla's bug tracking system <a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/">Bugzilla</a>.
 A "bug" is basically a change request and uniquely identified by a numerical ID.
 A bug can be about a defect in the software, a feature request or an idea of how
-to improve exiting functionality.
+to improve existing functionality.
 </p>
 
 <p>

src/news.en.xml

@@ -7,6 +7,30 @@ http://www.damowmow.com/portal/ (use the "Indentify" field)
 -->
 
 <newsfeed title="SeaMonkey News" url="http://seamonkey-project.org/news">
+  <entry id="2021-05-16" showfront="true">
+    <headline>Change of support options</headline>
+    <content type="html" xml:lang="en">
+<![CDATA[<p>
+Hi folks hope you are all well and healthy. We want to announce a change in our
+support groups. Mozilla will turn off the nntp lights and so the newgroups
+mozilla.support.seamonkey and mozilla.dev.apps.seamonkey will go away soon.
+These were actually not real nntp groups but mailing lists mixed in with
+nntp. The mailing lists have been moved to google groups. The nntp servers
+will be archived and then switched off. We do not have a final date for this
+yet. SeaMonkey is also a nntp client so as a replacement a new nntp group
+<a href="news://news.aioe.org/alt.comp.software.seamonkey">
+alt.comp.software.seamonkey</a> has been created.
+</p>
+<p>
+As usual we would like to remind everyone that we also have release notes which
+contain a list of known problems and, if there are any, also solutions for
+them. Also keep in mind that the SeaMonkey council mailing address is
+not a help line. If you are unable to solve a problem using the normal support
+options please file a bug in Bugzilla. Especially problems with specific
+websites should also be discussed in the support groups first. We are working
+on enhancing web compatibility but many sites also just do incorrect browser
+detection and present a flawed site.
+</p>]]>
   <entry id="2021-04-15" showfront="true">
     <headline>SeaMonkey 2.53.7.1 released</headline>
     <content type="html" xml:lang="en">