Release notes presentation

Jeanette Winzenburg fastegal at swingempire.de
Mon Mar 9 12:53:58 UTC 2020


agree with better highlighting of the important changes/issues
disagree with leaving out the not so important - that's in the eye of  
the reader, anyway - changes/issues: after all, the target readership  
are technicians, not suits :)

-- Jeanette

Zitat von Nir Lisker <nlisker at gmail.com>:

> Hi,
>
> I posted the release notes for OpenJFX 14 on Reddit. The top comment [1]
> complained about the presentation. Maybe on openjfx.io the Release Notes
> link could show a more "friendly" summary with a link to the detailed
> table. I suggest:
>
> 1. Including only changes that matter to the users of the library with
> separate sections for new API and for (non-internal) bug fixes.
> 2. Highlighting significant changes.
>
> Some example bug fixes to include:
> - TableView, ListView: unexpected scrolling behaviour on up/down keys
> - DragAndDrop no longer works with GTK3
> - Window order is not correct when Modality.WINDOW_MODAL
>
> Don't include:
> - [WebView] Sub-resource integrity check fails on Windows and Linux
> - javafx.web build fails on XCode 10.2
> - Cherry pick GTK WebKit ___ changes
>
> Enhancements to include:
> - Add support for e-paper displays
> - Add exclusion scope for LightBase
> - Point2D and Point3D should implement Interpolatable
>
> Don't include:
> -  Color, Point2D and Point3D's fields should be made final
>
> Thoughts?
>
> - Nir
>
> [1]
> https://www.reddit.com/r/java/comments/fegcv9/release_notes_for_javafx_14/fjphqfn?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x





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