Decommission DXR

[Sylvestre Ledru]

Cross post: https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/decommission-dxr/69475

Hello,

tldr: We are planning to turn off DXR.m.o at the end of the year, please be on the lookout for breakage.

DXR, the successful successor of MXR, served us well over the years. Over the last few years, in parallel, so many terrific improvements have been made to searchfox (Rust support, code coverage integration, etc) that the most current users of DXR are now bots.

Therefore, in order to have one tool for code search, we will turn off DXR *Tuesday, December 29th.*

To make sure we are not missing anything, we plan to turn off DXR for 12 hours Monday November 2nd and wait for breakage in our tools or feedback.

In parallel, to make sure we have parity, we have deployed a few changes:

* Import l10n-central in searchfox: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1669735 <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1669735>
* Replace in-tree DXR references by searchfox links

We will then set up a DXR => Searchfox redirect.

Meta bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=byebye-dxr <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=byebye-dxr>

Sylvestre

[Sylvestre Ledru]

Hello,

First, I hope you all had a great December break!

DXR survived 2020 but not 2021! DXR was turned off yesterday and we have
now a (simple) redirect from DXR to Searchfox.
https://searchfox.org/

Source: https://github.com/mozsearch/mozsearch (in Rust)!

Many thanks to all the people to help! It has been a smoother ride than
expected (last famous words? ;)

Cheers,
Sylvestre



Le jeu. 22 oct. 2020 à 13:23, Sylvestre Ledru <sylv...@mozilla.com> a
écrit :

> Cross post: https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/decommission-dxr/69475
>
> Hello,
>
> tldr: We are planning to turn off DXR.m.o at the end of the year, please
> be on the lookout for breakage.
>
> DXR, the successful successor of MXR, served us well over the years. Over
> the last few years, in parallel, so many terrific improvements have been
> made to searchfox (Rust support, code coverage integration, etc) that the
> most current users of DXR are now bots.
>
> Therefore, in order to have one tool for code search, we will turn off DXR *Tuesday,
> December 29th.*
>
> To make sure we are not missing anything, we plan to turn off DXR for 12
> hours Monday November 2nd and wait for breakage in our tools or feedback.
>
> In parallel, to make sure we have parity, we have deployed a few changes:
>

> - Import l10n-central in searchfox:
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1669735
> - Replace in-tree DXR references by searchfox links

>
> We will then set up a DXR => Searchfox redirect.
>
> Meta bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=byebye-dxr
>

> Sylvestre
>