Changelog/release notes for add-ons website

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Changelog/release notes for add-ons website

Unread post by win7-7 » 2022-04-07, 09:25

Suggestion: Add changelog/release notes for add-ons website for what changes between versions of add-ons.

See: https://web.archive.org/web/20180515075 ... /issues/47

It would be great to have changelog between add-ons versions. Developer off add-on could be documenting changes in each version.

I can create issue for repo if Moonchild think this feature would be possible for add-ons website.
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Re: Changelog/release notes for add-ons website

Unread post by moonbat » 2022-04-08, 00:24

win7-7 wrote:
2022-04-07, 09:25
what changes between versions of add-ons.
That's the job of the addon author :roll:
How do you expect the browser developers to know what changes have been made in addons, or did you think that everything here is provided by them?
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Re: Changelog/release notes for add-ons website

Unread post by FranklinDM » 2022-04-08, 02:04

I think win7-7 is talking about giving add-on developers the ability in the add-ons website to add a changelog for every add-on release, similar to how AMO handles it in the past, which is visible in the individual add-on page and in the Add-ons Manager when checking for updates. He's not asking for browser developers to add the changelog themselves for every add-on.

For comparison of the add-on releases page: APMO vs. Fresco Mirror

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Re: Changelog/release notes for add-ons website

Unread post by win7-7 » 2022-04-08, 06:44

FranklinDM wrote:
2022-04-08, 02:04
I think win7-7 is talking about giving add-on developers the ability in the add-ons website to add a changelog for every add-on release, similar to how AMO handles it in the past, which is visible in the individual add-on page and in the Add-ons Manager when checking for updates. He's not asking for browser developers to add the changelog themselves for every add-on.

For comparison of the add-on releases page: APMO vs. Fresco Mirror
Yes. Option for add-on developers to add in changelog/release notes in add-on website what is changing in each version. Similar how AMO in past had such option for add-on developers to add release notes for each version of add-on. Version information had changelog visible for current version. Also all versions had changelog for each version.

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Re: Changelog/release notes for add-ons website

Unread post by Moonchild » 2022-04-08, 11:10

The add-ons site software is actually FOSS just like Pale Moon is.
It's a PHP/SQL setup, the repo for it is https://repo.palemoon.org/MoonchildProductions/phoebus

Since Tobin was our PHP person, further development on it will likely be entirely dependent on external contributors to that repo. I have some knowledge of the language and can fix existing things or write simple scripts for websites to do basic processing/selection, but implementing new features in Phoebus like asked is likely going to be beyond me.
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