Notify users about changes introduced by new versions

diegodlh / zotero-cita

Cita: a Wikidata addon for Zotero with citations metadata support

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Notify users about changes introduced by new versions #131

Open diegodlh opened 3 years ago

diegodlh commented 3 years ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. New features and previously unsupported features may not be discovered by users when new versions of Cita are released and installed automatically.

Describe the solution you'd like When major changes are included, a window may appear when Cita is updated automatically, listing these changes (like Zutilo does). This window should have a fixed heading, that would be translated to languages supported by Cita. Changes may have to be shown in English and Spanish only.

Dominic-DallOsto commented 3 years ago

It should also be possible to show release notes in the Zotero add-ons menu by including the <em:updateInfoURL> tag like in Better BibTeX here. I haven't tested this though.

But a nice popup window would be better for less technically-minded uses for sure.

diegodlh commented 3 years ago

It should also be possible to show release notes in the Zotero add-ons menu by including the tag like in Better BibTeX here. I haven't tested this though.

Oh, I see! I wasn't sure what you'd meant when you [said](It seems possible to add release notes to the add-ons section in Zotero. I just updated my Better BibTeX extension and it had a section for release notes, but then they failed to load.):

It seems possible to add release notes to the add-ons section in Zotero. I just updated my Better BibTeX extension and it had a section for release notes, but then they failed to load.

Where did this section for release notes appear? I have Better BibTeX installed but I don't see a release notes section in the Zotero's Add-ons Manager window, not even immediately after updating to the latest version.

Dominic-DallOsto commented 3 years ago

I just downloaded Better BibTeX v5.4.28 from here and installed it in Zotero. Then I restarted Zotero and checked for updates and I see this:

But trying to expand the release notes gives me this:

diegodlh commented 3 years ago

Oh, got it! I couldn't see it because I had automatic updates enabled. I'll check what format the updateInfoURL should return so it doesn't fail. But yes, as you said, a popup window will be way more visible for most users. Thank you!