Closed kristinoletmuskat closed 1 month ago
Hey @FranECross , we are thinking of publishing our new URLs on monday 6/17, and then asking for these redirects to go live on Tuesday 6/18 -- would that work for you all? And what time does the deploy go out?
@kristinoletmuskat Thanks for this info! That date will work for us. Here is info on timing your publishing of the new URL and our publishing of the redirect (
@jilladams will you please fact-check me? This is changing the existing URL, not publishing a new page that will then be redirecting to a new page.
Timing: Redirects deploy at 10A ET Mon-Thurs. If we merge our PR, it will be live on the next deployment, on that schedule.
With your 6/18 Tuesday target of the redirect going live:
Yes!! Yay, Fran!
One note: Publishing before 10am also requires a content release to complete before the page will be live. If the content release doesn't complete before the redirect goes live, there might be a brief 404 til the content release is done. Meaning: it might be safer to publish the page the night before the redirect deploys, in case of any content release drama.
Could we deploy the redirect on Tuesday 6/18? It doesn't actually have to go live on any specific day -- the previous week our copyeditor is out, and Wed 6/19 is Juneteenth holiday so we were just trying to squeeze it in when folks would be here. But open to a more convenient schedule for ya'll.
@kristinoletmuskat Including Jill's suggestion (thanks!), will this work for you?
(Also just noting so we don't forget: Wed 6/19 is a federal holiday, so if we run into trouble, work will resume on Thurs 6/20.)
That sounds great! Thank all.
Noting that Danielle is planning to reach out to stakeholders, waiting to hear back from her on next steps and whether she needs any more info from us.
FYI just added in the spanish-language version of the static drupal page for PCAFC.
@kristinoletmuskat If work needs to occur for the Spanish page (left nav translation; breadcrumb; language toggles), will you please create a separate ticket for those/that? This ticket will be for the redirect only. Thanks in advance!
Yes @FranECross! Does your team usually handle those elements (left nav and breadcrumb translation, language toggles), or are they controlled in Drupal? Just tagging @laurwill to see if she might know, and for awareness
@d-beyer
@kristinoletmuskat Our team does handle those translation elements. 😁
Sweet didn't know that! I will create another ticket.
Do ya'll have a template, or I can just wing it and try to get all the info in there? @FranECross
@jilladams I'm not sure how someone accesses the template typically used for translation? For instance, I see the one noted below. Do we have a template for this type of request? TIA!
https://github.com/department-of-veterans-affairs/va.gov-cms/issues/17304, but when I look at our templates, I don't see a template for it, nor when I do a / in our DSVA Slack channel. cc @kristinoletmuskat
I think we just have 1 generic intake template in the va.gov-team repo (since that's where most other teams manage their work / look for stuff) - from here: https://github.com/department-of-veterans-affairs/va.gov-team/issues/new/choose it's the "Public Website Intake Form"
I pulled this into the wrong sprint; should be Sprint 6 (06/12 to 06/25).
Just submitted the ticket for the spanish toggles: https://github.com/department-of-veterans-affairs/va.gov-team/issues/84625
@jilladams @FranECross
Heads up! We've decided to push this launch out a week due to some last minute additions to the subhub pages (but no changes to the URLs above). I updated the ticket with the new timeline today -- pls review and let us know if anything looks wrong!
And @megzehn, I just added some tasks to this ticket according to our discussion last week about catching those old links in Drupal. lmk if you have Qs!
@kristinoletmuskat Thanks for the heads up! I will keep these PRs ready to merge when you're ready.
@kristinoletmuskat have you / will you update the necessary timings in the body of the ticket, to make sure we all know when things should happen?
Yes I did update the body of the ticket! Both in the [STATUS] section and the implementation date.
Hi @jilladams @chriskim2311 @FranECross , We need to remove 1 page from this batch of redirects. Is it possible to not redirect only the https://www.va.gov/housing-assistance/home-loans/surviving-spouse/ page, but still redirect the others? cc @kristinoletmuskat
@chriskim2311 confirmed with me he'll make this change in PRs that are open, to be ready for Monday.
HI folks, we discussed with @mmiddaugh this morning, and we'd like to handle the left sidenav and section questions separately via a Public Websites intake request. That's new work for our team, and folks on our current contract have never handled adding a new Section (on PW) or left nav (across both PW and Facilities), so we'll need a little time to ramp up and learn/remember how it all works, in order to do that work for you.
cc @FranECross
If that means you will plan to delay today's launch, please let us know.
@kristinoletmuskat @d-beyer for awareness: Hubs on the homepage are created via a separate Drupal menu: https://prod.cms.va.gov/admin/structure/menu/manage/home-page-hub-list. When you are ready, the Family hub rename and link will need to happen within that menu to cut over and point to the new one. I believe y'all have permissions to do that.
https://www.va.gov/family-and-caregiver-benefits/ is live.
CAIA will test leftnav and give PW greenlight when they would like us to proceed with merge. https://dsva.slack.com/archives/CDHBKAL9W/p1719263294086559?thread_ts=1718995305.641209&cid=CDHBKAL9W
Hi @jilladams , since the pages are all live and the breadcrumbs are working, we think we can go ahead with the redirects and then continue finding a fix for the left nav. Let us know if you all have concerns with that! We're going to request a tugboat environment so we can experiment safely to figure out the left nav issue.
Sounds good! @chriskim2311 all clear to merge today. We've already missed today's deploy, so we'll merge today and it should go out tomorrow.
Redirects have been merged, will go out with tomorrow's release.
Noting that all these are working except for the 10-10g form -- not sure why!
@kristinoletmuskat Checking on that as well, not sure why its redirecting to the original introduction page.
@chriskim2311 I think this was intentional on the PCAFC side, here's message from Matt Long: https://github.com/department-of-veterans-affairs/va.gov-team/issues/81299
@kristinoletmuskat Redirect is working now. Was there a content release for that page today? Not sure what happened there
Not sure! Verified in prod, so closing this ticket.
Status
[2024-06-12] Release date Tuesday 6/25. See schedule below to meet their target date of the redirect going live on 6/25
[2024-05-21] Release date 6/18. See schedule below to meet their target date of the redirect going live on 6/18
[2024-05-21] Awaiting more information. Tentative target date is 6/12.
Points of Contact
Type of request
Implementation date
NOTE: Redirects deploy M-Th. Friday launches should be avoided. Choose one:
[X] On a specific date, connected to a program or publishing requirement. Tuesday, 6/25/24 (UPDATED!!)
this date is negotiable with ya'll -- it's an internal deadline set by OCTO but we can move it around if needed. We're just trying to coordinate a bunch of things to hook up by this date.
Redirects
Process, Roles and Responsibilities