[hibernate-dev] [Search and more] What is new in a give release

[Sanne Grinovero]

After some chats and a night of sleep on this, I think we need to stop
obsessing about guiding people into the choice among multiple minor
versions: it's hard enough that they have to pick a project.

We need to encourage people to use the latest versions and we need to
send a clear, strong message about this, no middle ground fiddling
with names and definitions

We can give them a choice between using the latest stable vs the
latest development, but beyond this we're giving too much choice.

Yet I do believe we should make it "not-hard" for people looking for
details of other recent versions; could we consider them all
"archived" ? Some drop downs on key areas like the ones in ORM today
would still be welcome to make it easy to find - but let's remove the
version choice from the "primary navigation path".

There are some exceptional cases coming to mind which would need some
mitigation; for example the fact that OGM won't work with the latest
Search and ORM releases!
But there are better solutions than to pollute the website experience
by making the matching versions too visible, for example bundle it
with OGM, link to the right versions from the OGM pages, or have the
modules eventually pull-in the required dependencies, etc...
(technical details irrelevant in this context).

Thanks,
Sanne




On 22 September 2017 at 12:21, Guillaume Smet <guillaume.smet at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 6:45 PM, Sanne Grinovero <sanne at hibernate.org>
> wrote:
>>
>> *IF* you are willing to improve a minor point: I didn't expect the
>> "Releases" menu to be expanded when not being in any of these
>> sections.
>
>
> Let's keep that one for another time.
>
>>
>> Related: I wouldn't highlight both the current release and the
>> "Releases" label, the shading looks odd and misaligned.
>
>
> Yoann fixed it.
>
> Could we push that version to production and iterate after if required?
>
> It's a tad better than what we have now and I don't see a reason to delay it
> more.
>
> Emmanuel?
>
> --
> Guillaume
>