1310136 - Update DevTools release notes to Firefox 51

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Developer Documentation Graveyard :: Developer Tools, defect)

Description

[Sebastian Zartner [:sebo]]

The DevTools release notes only include the Firefox versions up to 48.
This means Florian's great [Learn more] feature is not included yet. :-(

Therefore they need to be updated to Developer Edition 51.

Sebastian

Comment 1

[Florian Scholz (Open Web Docs)]

Fwiw, I also created a page like this for ECMAScript features and it is semi-automatically, because it pulls contents from the Firefox XY for developers release note pages:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/New_in_JavaScript/Firefox_JavaScript_changelog

Comment 2

[Sebastian Zartner [:sebo]]

Thanks for the hint, Florian! I've done the same now for the DevTools page, so that we have something at least.
Though I have to say I really like the concise lists of the previous versions, so I keep this bug open until we decided whether to keep them that way or to replace the {{page}} macros by static lists to be consistent with the previous versions.

Will, what do you think?

Sebastian

Comment 3

[Will Bamberg [:wbamberg]]

I do prefer the more-curated, terser style of e.g. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/Release_notes#Firefox_48 to something like https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/Release_notes#Firefox_49. I think it's easier to see the important changes. But this is a matter of opinion really.

My original idea was for the "Firefox XY for developers" page to import data from release notes for individual parts of Firefox, i.e. the exact opposite of Florian's idea :-). But it's fine to do it this way, too.

I'll write some notes for 50 and 51.

Comment 4

[Sebastian Zartner [:sebo]]

Thanks for the feedback, Will!

(In reply to Will Bamberg [:wbamberg] from comment #3)
> My original idea was for the "Firefox XY for developers" page to import data
> from release notes for individual parts of Firefox, i.e. the exact opposite
> of Florian's idea :-). But it's fine to do it this way, too.

I'd rather keep it as is, i.e. have the "Release notes" page concise and provide more details on the "Firefox XY for developers" pages. Though that's something that might be discussed separately.

> I'll write some notes for 50 and 51.

Good. So I've assigned the bug to you.

Sebastian

Comment 5

[Will Bamberg [:wbamberg]]

-> https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/Release_notes

There's honestly not much in 51 that's release note worthy.

Comment 6

[Will Bamberg [:wbamberg]]

Let me know if this works for you and I'll close this bug.

Comment 7

[Sebastian Zartner [:sebo]]

Sorry for the long delay.

The only thing that I found that might be mentioned in the release notes for 51 is bug 1295080. Otherwise it looks very good.

Sebastian