NoScript v10: devel. history and date - small improvement?

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NoScript v10: devel. history and date - small improvement?

Post by sodead »

Hello. I would like to write about something, that I really miss for a long time, for example, on the https://noscript.net/getit website. What I mean is a... date! Yes, date of a new Development version etc. Mr Giorgio what do You think about adding a date of a release, next to the Development version number? Now it looks this way:

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v 10.1.6.6rc2
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+ Tab selection persistence on Options Page reloads
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So, maybe adding a date of release is also a good idea? I know, that it's not so important but it could be very helpful for users in future etc. (Or when something added e.g. in version x.y.z will be needed for someone for a various reasons and he/she knows only a date of release, then it will be much easier to find it and so on). So, it could looks something like this:

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v 10.1.6.6rc2 (released: 14 Feb., 2018)
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+ Tab selection persistence on Options Page reloads
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Another "date" variants. There can be added hour with seconds (1.st variant) or just day, month, year (2.nd variant) etc. (date are examples, of course!):

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v 10.1.6.6rc2  (Date: Wed Feb 18 09:12:29 2018)
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+ Tab selection persistence on Options Page reloads
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v 10.1.6.6rc1  (Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2018) 
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+ Tabbed options sections
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Another date formats could be (here is an example for NoScript v5 and with date moved to the right):

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v 5.1.8.5rc1                               (Wed, 21 Feb 2018)
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x Fixed JSON interactive view disabled by cascading
  restrictions (thanks jester for reporting)
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So what do you think? Is it worth to add something like this? If we, for example, will look on a big Open Source project, there always is a date of a release, even for a Development versions etc. And NoScript is definitely an amazing Open Source Project! :- )

Thanks.

(sodead aka daniel4859)
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Re: NoScript v10: devel. history and date - small improvemen

Post by barbaz »

Release dates are in the NoScript feed https://noscript.net/feed?t=a
*Always* check the changelogs BEFORE updating that important software!
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Guest

Re: NoScript v10: devel. history and date - small improvemen

Post by Guest »

Hello. Yes, that's true, but I think that most users check/use https://noscript.net/getit website. However, good point Barbaz. But, I would like to know Mr Maone opinion etc. And other users, of course.

Thanks, best regards.
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