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/should always 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 <jo...@kichwacoders.com> > To: Cross project issues <cross-project-issues-dev@eclipse.org> > Date: 13.04.2017 15:13 > Subject: Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Info Center for Neon.3 > Sent by: cross-project-issues-dev-boun...@eclipse.org > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > 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.g...@eclipse.org> 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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