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

[Sanne Grinovero]

On 28 September 2017 at 14:53, Steve Ebersole <steve at hibernate.org> wrote:
> The question is not about whether to have that information.  The question is
> whether a one row table spanning horizontally across the screen is the best
> presentation for that info.

TBH I don't remember myself which ORM series is JPA 2.2 and which one
is 2.1, I often have to doublecheck.. I just think regular users would
have this need even more often.

But I see how this can be far fetched, while there are objectinve
benefits from having a cleaner table, so feel free to remove it.


> On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 8:01 AM Sanne Grinovero <sanne at hibernate.org> wrote:
>>
>> On 28 September 2017 at 13:30, Steve Ebersole <steve at hibernate.org> wrote:
>> > Do y'all really think it makes sense to have JPA versions in this ORM
>> > "compatibility matrix"?
>>
>> I think it's useful. Try booting a recent ORM version with an out of
>> date JPA api jar: you'll get really weird exceptions and it's hard to
>> figure out what's wrong.
>>
>> https://forum.hibernate.org/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=1043938
>>
>> Hopefully in future having a single JPA API distribution (in terms of
>> Maven coordinates) would make such issues a thing of the past, but
>> it's going to take a while yet.
>>
>> >
>> > My concern is that it is more involved (as we then try to convey in the
>> > section below that matrix) than a cell in a matrix/table with just a
>> > version number.
>> >
>> > If we end up treating JPA compatibility differently (removing from
>> > table)
>> > then the table is just made up of "Java compatibility", which we can
>> > probably illustrate simpler than a single vertical row of versions.
>> >
>> > On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 6:37 AM Guillaume Smet
>> > <guillaume.smet at gmail.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> >> On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 9:21 AM, Guillaume Smet
>> >> <guillaume.smet at gmail.com>
>> >> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> > I was talking about the ability to access the old series when they
>> >> > are
>> >> not
>> >> > displayed in the overview.
>> >> >
>> >> > AFAICS, this is definitely missing and we would need either a page
>> >> > with
>> >> > all the series linked from the overview page or a button displaying
>> >> > the
>> >> > retired series.
>> >> >
>> >>
>> >> Done: I added a See older series button to the Releases / Overview page
>> >> and
>> >> to the Documentation page.
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> Guillaume
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