805645 - Release notes for Bugzilla 4.4rc1

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Bugzilla :: Documentation, defect)

Description

[Frédéric Buclin]

We are reaching the release candidate stage for 4.4. It's time to write release notes for this branch.

Comment 1

[Frédéric Buclin]

I'm on it. Almost done.

Comment 2

[Frédéric Buclin]

Attachment: relnotes, v1

Comment 3

[:glob ✱]

>+  change. The second major difference is that the list of available tags is
>+  illimited and is in no way hardcoded by administrators. You can type either

s/illimited/unlimited/

>+  <li><strong>[% terms.Bugs %]:</strong> It is now possible to add himself to
>+    the CC list when uploading an attachment and when editing an existing one.</li>

s/himself/yourself/

Comment 4

[David Lawrence [:dkl]]

Comment on attachment 678425 [details] [diff] [review]
relnotes, v1

Review of attachment 678425 [details] [diff] [review]:
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::: template/en/default/pages/release-notes.html.tmpl
@@ +120,5 @@
> +  <li><a href="#v44_feat_mimetype_autodetect">Auto-Detection of the Attachment MIME Type</a></li>
> +  <li><a href="#v44_feat_saved_reports">Saving Tabular and Graphical Reports</a></li>
> +  <li><a href="#v44_feat_apache_config">New Apache Configuration</a></li>
> +  <li><a href="#v44_feat_whining">Custom Columns in Whine Emails</a></li>
> +  <li><a href="#v44_feat_other">Other Enhancements and Changes</a></li>

I feel that the WebServices improvements (what is checked in so far and what will hopefully be added before release) are lengthy enough to be included in this list.

@@ +211,5 @@
> +
> +<h4>Enhancements for Users</h4>
> +
> +<ul>
> +  <li><strong>[% terms.Bugs %]:</strong> It is now possible to add himself to

s/himself/yourself/

@@ +216,5 @@
> +    the CC list when uploading an attachment and when editing an existing one.</li>
> +  <li><strong>[% terms.Bugs %]:</strong> There is a new user preference to be
> +    automatically added to the CC list of [% terms.bugs %] for which a flag
> +    request is addressed to you (the flag has you as the requestee).</li>
> +  <li><strong>[% terms.Bugs %]:</strong> Changes to the CC list no longer cause

s/cause/causes/

@@ +228,5 @@
> +  <li><strong>[% terms.Bugs %]:</strong> When reporting a new [% terms.bug %],
> +    flags which are not available for the selected component and those which
> +    the reporter cannot edit are now hidden instead of being disabled. For
> +    existing [% terms.bugs %], unset flags are also hidden by default. Clicking
> +    the <em>(set flags)</em> or <em>(more flags)</em> link will make them to

s/to//

@@ -191,5 @@
> -[% INCLUDE db_req db='pg' db_new => 1 %]
> -
> -[% INCLUDE db_req db='oracle' %]
> -
> -[% INCLUDE db_req db='sqlite' %]

Any reason you are removing the template directives and replacing with HTML?

@@ -197,5 @@
>  <h3 id="v42_req_modules">Required Perl Modules</h3>
>  
> -[% INCLUDE req_table reqs = REQUIRED_MODULES
> -                     new = ['Math-Random-ISAAC']
> -                     updated = ['URI'] %]

same here

@@ -207,5 @@
>  
> -[% INCLUDE req_table reqs = OPTIONAL_MODULES
> -                     new  = ['Encode', 'Encode-Detect']
> -                     updated = ['PatchReader', 'Apache-SizeLimit']
> -                     include_feature = 1 %]

and here.

Comment 5

[Frédéric Buclin]

(In reply to David Lawrence [:dkl] from comment #4)
> Any reason you are removing the template directives and replacing with HTML?

Yes. The directives get their data from Bugzilla::Install::Requirements, which is valid for the current release only. Every time we branch, we have to hardcode the list for older releases.

Comment 6

[Frédéric Buclin]

Attachment: relnotes, v2

Comment 7

[David Lawrence [:dkl]]

Comment on attachment 679408 [details] [diff] [review]
relnotes, v2

r=dkl

Comment 8

[Frédéric Buclin]

Committing to: bzr+ssh://[e-mail]/bugzilla/trunk/
modified template/en/default/pages/release-notes.html.tmpl
Committed revision 8460.

Committing to: bzr+ssh://[e-mail]/bugzilla/4.4/
modified template/en/default/pages/release-notes.html.tmpl
Committed revision 8446.