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Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Info Center for Neon.3

Yes.

Dani



From:        Frederic Gurr <frederic.gurr@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To:        cross-project-issues-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
Date:        13.04.2017 15:58
Subject:        Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Info Center for Neon.3
Sent by:        cross-project-issues-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx




Jonah and Dani,

Thanks for clarifying that "new features" are allowed for service
releases. So we accept that an info center could explain a feature that
was added in a .3 release and confuse users if they don't find it in
their GA, .1 or .2 installation?

Regards,

Fred

On 13.04.2017 15:32, Daniel Megert wrote:
> Jonah, Fred,
>
> even for Platform a.k.a. as Eclipse SDK this isn't true anymore. We had
> new features in 4.6.1 and 4.6.2.
>
>
http://help.eclipse.org/shouldalways point to the latest release, but
> we should also keep help centers for older releases like
>
http://help.eclipse.org/mars/index.jsp. I don't think we should manage
> help centers for each update release though.
>
> Dani
>
>
>
> From:        Jonah Graham <jonah@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To:        Cross project issues <cross-project-issues-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date:        13.04.2017 15:13
> Subject:        Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Info Center for Neon.3
> Sent by:        cross-project-issues-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
>
> Hi Fred,
>
>> I tend to agree. Service releases *should* not add new features or
> introduce breaking changes, but mostly fix bugs.
>
> Can you confirm the "*should*" applies only to the platform? AFAIK the
> whole idea of changing from SRx style to .x style was to acknowledge
> that .x releases did indeed add new features. Projects such as CDT do
> release new features in .x releases. (An example for CDT is the new
> debugger console in Neon.2)
>
> Thanks,
> Jonah
> ~~~
> Jonah Graham
> Kichwa Coders Ltd.
>
www.kichwacoders.com
>
>
> On 13 April 2017 at 13:53, Frederic Gurr <frederic.gurr@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I tend to agree. Service releases *should* not add new features or
>> introduce breaking changes, but mostly fix bugs. So I guess the
>> documentation can be considered to only improve from GA to the .3 release.
>> For example, it's unlikely that the latest version of the info center of
>> Neon (from the .3 release) contains wrong or obsolete descriptions,
>> because something changed between GA and .3. Otherwise we would need a
>> info center for every service release to have the most accurate
>> documentation for each release.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Fred
>>
>>
>> On 11.04.2017 17:03, Denis Roy wrote:
>>> I think we should have only one infocenter per major release (ie, a
>>> single Neon infocenter).
>>>
>>> Denis
>>>
>>> On 04/11/2017 05:22 AM, Frederic Gurr wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> There was no feedback in two weeks, so I consider the info center for
>>>> Neon.3 done.
>>>>
>>>> I'd like to gather some opinions about the following question:
>>>>
>>>> Should there be a separate info center for every release and service
>>>> release (e.g. separate info center for Neon.0, Neon.1, Neon.2, Neon.3),
>>>> or should there be only one info center per release with updated
> content?
>>>> If this has already been decided and defined somewhere, please point me
>>>> to it.
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>>
>>>> Fred
>>>>
>>>> On 28.03.2017 19:44, Frederic Gurr wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> The info center for the Neon.3 release is now available here:
>>>>>
http://help.eclipse.org/neon3/index.jsp
>>>>>
>>>>> As proposed in Bug 499411
>>>>> (
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=499411), project's
>>>>> participation in the info center has changed from opt-in to opt-out.
>>>>>
>>>>> Compared to the Neon info center the following user
>>>>> guides/documentations have been added in Neon.3:
>>>>>
>>>>> * ACTF Visualization SDK Developer Guide
>>>>> * ACTF Visualization User Guide
>>>>> * BIRT Report Developer Guide
>>>>> * BPEL User Guide
>>>>> * BPMN2 Modeler Table of Contents
>>>>> * Data Tools Platform Plug-in Developer Guide
>>>>> * Data Tools Platform User Documentation
>>>>> * ECF Remote Services Developer Guide
>>>>> * Eclipse Marketplace User Guide
>>>>> * EEF Javadoc
>>>>> * EGF Eclipse Generation Factories Guide
>>>>> * EGit GitHub Documentation
>>>>> * GMF Developer Guide
>>>>> * LDT User Guide
>>>>> * Modeling Workflow Engine Reference
>>>>> * RSE User Guide
>>>>> * Sequoyah User Guide
>>>>> * Shell Script Editor User Guide
>>>>> * Sphinx Developer Guide
>>>>> * Subversive User Guide
>>>>> * Tcl/Xotcl Development User Guide
>>>>> * WindowBuilder Pro User Guide
>>>>> * Xpand Documentation
>>>>> * XSD Developer Guide
>>>>> * Xtend User Guide
>>>>> * Xtext Documentation
>>>>>
>>>>> The following user guides/documentations are included in the Neon info
>>>>> center, but not in Neon.3:
>>>>>
>>>>> * JavaServer Faces Tooling Developer Guide
>>>>> * Oomph Utilities Documentation
>>>>> * PTP Developer's Guide
>>>>> * XSL Tools SDK Documentation
>>>>>
>>>>> If any user guide/documentation should NOT be included in the Neon.3
>>>>> info center or is missing in error (e.g. PTP) please comment on bug
>>>>> 514345 (
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=514345).
>>>>>
>>>>> If something is missing, please provide the full path and all files
> that
>>>>> should be included.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>
>>>>> Fred
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