add 22.05 release notes #10
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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. |
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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!" |
| in your `config.toml` under the editor section. The characters used for tabs, | ||
| spaces, non-breaking space, and newlines may also be customized as well as | ||
| whether any of the characters are rendered at all. In fact, for the remaining | ||
| asciicasts in this post, you'll be seeing my custom tab and newline characters! |
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Can we add a note here that visible whitespace can make working with helix's selection model more intuitive, at least in the case of line endings? I think this could be a big boon to new users.
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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. |
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 |
| Vertical rulers may now be configured through the `rulers` option. Use them | ||
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I prefer headings use normal case (Show visible whitespace) because Title Case looks to me like a movie title. Not as strongly opinionated here though
I'd like to do this in the future but there isn't a good way to present them yet. Ideally we'd have helix-editor/helix#1798 and I'd tab through only the new themes to show them off quickly in an asciicast.
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? |
Co-authored-by: Blaž Hrastnik <blaz@mxxn.io>
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.