Thunderbird/MovingSuMoMoToMozillaDotOrg
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This is a draft web page for discussion only. It will be superseded by bugs in bugzilla and other web pages which will NOT be labelled DRAFT
Context:
Now that Mozilla Messaging is part of Mozilla Corporation, it doesn't make sense to have separate mozillamessaging.com websites and collateral. Therefore it doesn't make sense to have SuMoMo, i.e. the Mozilla Thunderbird Support Knowledge Base at support.mozillamessaging.com
Accordingly, we would like to move support.mozillamessaging.com elsewhere as soon as possible.
Ideal Scenario: support.mozilla.org/<locale>/thunderbird w/SSO
move to support.mozilla.org/<locale>/thunderbird with "support" single sign on
- SuMoMo moves to support.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird
- Single Sign on for all support websites for all verticals: Firefox, Firefox Mobile, Sync and Thunderbird
Pros:
- Big win for users!
Cons:
- requires a single Kitsune consolidated "super-instance" to handle all four verticals which Kitsune is not currently designed for (NB(james) we already have 3 of these, and will presumably also be dealing with other services and somehow with Apps eventually. To support more products, there are changes we can make but we don't have to.)
- we're not YET ready to merge Thunderbird support into SUMO which handles the other three verticals
- considerable implementation cost for the SUMO dev and SUMO teams as well as Thunderbird teams but this kind of work needs to be done eventually for Mobile, and Sync and eventually Apps as well
proxy: support.mozilla.org/thunderbird/<locale> to existing momo server
- SuMoMo moves to support.mozilla.org/thunderbird/en-US which proxies to a separate TB Kitsune instance from the Firefox Kitsune instance
Pros:
- Minimizes development cost to SUMO dev team
- Since Thunderbird and Firefox are still running separate Kitsune instances, data is separated so nothing needs to change in the day to day running of the Kitsune instances
Cons:
- Potentially confusing to users but still less confusing than mozillamessaging.com
- No support single sign on i.e. different userids for support of Firefox and support of Thunderbird which is the case today
- Ugly re-direct rules and urls will change when we move to support.mozilla.org/<locale>/Thunderbird
- proxying is slow
interim solution: move to other mozilla.org subdomain
e.g. thunderbird-support.mozilla.org
Pros:
- can be done very quickly
- no dev impact to SUMO team
- no dev required for Kitsune
Cons
- Yet another subdomain for mozilla.org which will have to be approved by the "one mozilla" team