Posted: Mon May 01, 2006 1:56 pm Post subject: Where can I find patch release notes?
I didn't know there was an alpha patch #2 until I read someone else's post here. Where can I find release notes on what the patch covers? Someone mentioned the wiki, but I couldn't find release notes there, unless I'm too tired to be thorough...
I notice, by the way, that the readme with patch #2 (which is 9Mb) says patches can get as big as 4Mb
By the way, Neo 2 alpha patch #2 fixes the 'print or export to pdf (with images)' crashing bug - thanks for sorting that out so quickly, I'd had to reinstall and revert to 1.2.2 to print out a job application form (serves me right for tidying up to quickly...) Oh, and the system font's back to normal size too. Omnia mutantur nihil interrit. You chaps are splendid (that's a British alternative to you guys rock or something).
I only can move so fast. The fixes go out first, then the nice e-mails.
Seriously, though, you should stop by Bugzilla once in a while and all the changes are listed in the Resolved list of bugs.
Sorry, didn't mean to come across as impatient (again...) - actually, I visit BZ a few times a day to see what's going on, but generally just see what's on the front page, and I haven't learned to use it the way you pointed out above. I'll go and do that now, but just out of curiosity, is there a single page somewhere that lists the release notes for sequential patches? It'd be a useful addition to the wiki if it's not there already, and I don't mind doing the work if it needs it.
Anyway, thanks again for restoring the printing/pdf thing.
Seriously, though, you should stop by Bugzilla once in a while and all the changes are listed in the Resolved list of bugs.
Sorry, didn't mean to come across as impatient (again...) - actually, I visit BZ a few times a day to see what's going on, but generally just see what's on the front page, and I haven't learned to use it the way you pointed out above. I'll go and do that now, but just out of curiosity, is there a single page somewhere that lists the release notes for sequential patches? It'd be a useful addition to the wiki if it's not there already, and I don't mind doing the work if it needs it.[/quote]
It is usually somewhere on NeoWiki. IIRC, Smokey and/or Jake take whatever I send out to the NeoJUpdate mailing release and post the gist of the e-mail in the NeoWiki. I didn't put out an e-mail Patch-1 (got sidetracked by the PDF bug) but I'll put out an e-mail before my Chinese class tonight (I still can't read any of the characters).
They're linked from the 1.2.2 Release Notes (since the rest of the web still links to those for all their Neo 1.2.2 listings) aka the "Release Notes" link on the Main Page, but maybe not prominently enough?
Smokey _________________ "[...] whether the duck drinks hot chocolate or coffee is irrelevant." -- ovvldc and sardisson in the NeoWiki
They're linked from the 1.2.2 Release Notes (since the rest of the web still links to those for all their Neo 1.2.2 listings) aka the "Release Notes" link on the Main Page, but maybe not prominently enough?
Hey ho, I got as far as the NeoOffice Release Notes page on the wiki last night but didn't see the "Release Notes for versions of NeoOffice available under the Early Access Program can be found here" line - see? I was too tired. As to the prominence, my problem was that I was looking for "v2 alpha" rather than "early access program" so it didn't jump out at me. I don't know if that reflects on its prominence or not.
Anyway, thanks for keeping this info up to date - FWIW I find those 'descriptive' release notes in the wiki a very useful conjunct to the 'the following bug nos. were fixed' type release notes in the email, because I find some of the bugzilla bug descriptions obscure compared to your prose descriptions in the wiki - I've now bookmarked that page, but maybe a link to it in the 'new patch' email would be a nice touch.
The readme for the alpha patches could still do with updating to reflect the larger size of the cumulative alpha patches, though, if they're up to 9Mb already (but that's just a sop to my proofreader's pride).
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Posted: Tue May 02, 2006 4:11 am Post subject:
yoxi wrote:
By the way, Neo 2 alpha patch #2 fixes the 'print or export to pdf (with images)' crashing bug - thanks for sorting that out so quickly, I'd had to reinstall and revert to 1.2.2 to print out a job application form (serves me right for tidying up to quickly...) Oh, and the system font's back to normal size too. Omnia mutantur nihil interrit. You chaps are splendid (that's a British alternative to you guys rock or something).
- padmavyuha
Let me guess. It's 30 years since I did any Latin, but: "if you're going to change everything, be afraid of nothing"??? [edited later: actually it's interit with one r, changes the meaning quite a bit - to something like "everything is changing, [but] nothing dies". Yes, I see what you mean.]
Anyway, what I wanted to say was, it's nice to get the normal font sizes back. I've now turned off my 130% view, and reversed my zooming etc [thanks to fabrizio for his tips ]. Well done, Patrick and Ed: you fix things so quickly. Imagine if major software makers responded like this, we'd hardly be able to keep up with improvements.
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Posted: Tue May 02, 2006 8:12 am Post subject:
The size of the patches is not directly proportional to the number of fixes, but rather depends on the number of shared libraries that change. Even if only one line of code gets changed, the entire binary for that library gets shipped within the patch. This kind of makes it hard to predict how large it'll get, but if no other modules get hit with bugfixes it'll stay the same size. It's still smaller than downloading a full install disk image
The size of the patches is not directly proportional to the number of fixes, but rather depends on the number of shared libraries that change...It's still smaller than downloading a full install disk image
Not 'arf! I was really just commenting on the fact that patch #2 has already outstripped the 'max' prediction in the readme, and therefore newcomers might be puzzled (I was surprised by the size jump myself, but then I guessed there were a fair number of code changes in patch #2, since it fixes so many bugs). And I was being pedantic too, of course. Apropos, regarding omina mutantur nihil interit you're quite right, I mistyped it - my favourite translation (and the most faithful one I know) is 'everything is changed, and nothing ceases...'
I was really just commenting on the fact that patch #2 has already outstripped the 'max' prediction in the readme, and therefore newcomers might be puzzled (I was surprised by the size jump myself, but then I guessed there were a fair number of code changes in patch #2, since it fixes so many bugs).
The original draft of that text said 12 MB, since that was the largest patch I could remember downloading (during 1.1 Alpha or Beta), but up until now that was more of an aberration (most of the recent patches have been about 1-2 MB; even the Performance Test Patches converting Neo/J 1.1 to Java 1.4.2 never topped 4 MB), so the size was changed accordingly
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