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carlhuda
updating janus? changelogs?
Hi,
The mailing list is apparently dead, so I'll repost my question here in hopes of more succes.
I recently discovered janus and love the concept. This way new, useful and popular vimplugins come to me for easy discovery so that I no longer need to scour the web for useful plugins myself. It also means that I get to know very useful plugins without realizing that I needed them, meaning that I never would have found them because I was never looking for it.
However ... I know I can update janus to the lastest version by running rake inside ~/.vim. But how often should I do this? And if I do, how can I find out what nice features/plugins were added or removed? Is there some kind of changelog I can inspect? or a mailinglist to subscribe to which informs me of significant changes like plugins that get added or removed or changed, so that I know I should run rake.
with kind regards,
Jeroen
For now I opted to subscribe to the commit history atom feed of the project https://github.com/carlhuda/janus/commits/master.atom to inform me of changes.
Jeroen
@jeroendv I think this is your best option for now, I was very busy with the move from France to California and I hardly have time to do any work on the side. I will keep this issue open for now and I will add to my TODO list! Thanks
Hi at the moment I'm also watching the project on github, so I'm informed of issues and pull requests and such by mail. I like it over the commit rss feed because it links back to the pull request and issues page for easy inspection of comments made by other people. The rss feeds just informs me of new commits, my interaction with it is more that of a notification system. It informs me of progress, i.e. running rake at this point would have some effect, but it doesn't mention comments and discussions created on github which I find to be very informative.
I don't know if github provides you with a mailling list of all people that watch your project or something similar. That would be an ideal and easy way to inform people that have shown interest in your project of major news.
Jeroen
Ps: what if a plugin is updated, but janus itself isn't. Does running rake result in updating that plugin?
I will probably go for manual announcements through the mailing list but I honestly need someone who can take care of the announcement. Otherwise I would just send a very small change-log and links to the commits/issues that were closed.
Running rake does not update any of the plugins unless they have been updated in janus itself, so if a plugin has an issue in a newer version, I have the ability to force an older version for everyone (Power of Git, don't you just love IT!!)
Oh one thing that I have no control over is the plugins that are outside of a Git repository, for instance, the plugins mustache and watchtower both are downloaded every time you run rake and unfortunately you will always get the latest version