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Website for Helix
https://helix-editor.com/
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add 22.05 release notes #10

Closed the-mikedavis closed 2 years ago

the-mikedavis commented 2 years ago

We're shooting to cut the 22.05 release by the end of the week so here are the release notes! This time I went a little overboard with the features and highlighted a bunch of things I think are new useful features. The listed release date is subject to change.

It would also be good to link out to the new streaming videos since they're a common ask as people get acquainted with the project.

EpocSquadron commented 2 years ago

Reading through the changelog I like how you had a section dedicated to themes. Also since there are so many new themes, I think we should showcase them in the news article.

EpocSquadron commented 2 years ago

A big motivator for contributors can be recognition in release articles like this. I think it can also be psychologically impactful to those seeing helix for the first time to see more viscerally how much involvement there is and might tip them over the edge to trying it. At the very least it can be a rewarding feeling for those who contributed and a nice thank you.

Can we have a section naming new and existing contributors separately. Should be doable to get a list from git. A step up which I totally understand if we don't do this time would be to shout out all those involved in each of the highlighted features eg "thanks to such-and-such and so-and-so for this feature!"

EpocSquadron commented 2 years ago

Is the appimage going to be generated with and attached to this release as mentioned in the changelog? That should be called out here as it is a good way for some to quickly get the editor and kick the tires.

archseer commented 2 years ago

A big motivator for contributors can be recognition in release articles like this.

I agree, but we'd need a decent generator. Right now these notes are written by hand so it takes quite a while to compose

the-mikedavis commented 2 years ago

since there are so many new themes, I think we should showcase them in the news article

I'd like to do this in the future but there isn't a good way to present them yet. Ideally we'd have https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/1798 and I'd tab through only the new themes to show them off quickly in an asciicast.

A step up which I totally understand if we don't do this time would be to shout out all those involved in each of the highlighted features eg "thanks to such-and-such and so-and-so for this feature!"

I think this is a good idea. It might take some coordination with the feature authors though which could be a little heavy - not everyone may want recognition for their features (although I figure most would) and I think it would be good etiquette to ask. There's also a question of what to call people: their GitHub handle or their listed name?