Here is our regular update that explains what we have been working on for the past two weeks. This should allow average users to keep up with development, without reading Github comments or knowing how to program.
@Neshura87 submitted the first ever RFC for Lemmy! It describes how post tags can be implemented.
0.19.0 is getting closer and closer to release, but we are still busy squashing bugs and getting lemmy-ui ready. For now there is another release candidate deployed on voyager.lemmy.ml for testing. Here is the full list of changes since the last release candidate for Lemmy and lemmy-ui
@nutomic fixed a bug with following local communities in the release candidate. He added a first integration test for image uploads.
@dessalines has been busy updating lemmy-ui to account for Lemmy API changes, and squashing various bugs like an issue with timezone db migrations, adding a creator_is_admin field to Post and Comment views.
@SleeplessOne1917 has implemented support for settings import/export in lemmy-ui, as well as some bug fixes.
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Thank you for the update. What is the recommended process for updating supporting apps using
lemmy-js-client? I've got three apps, all with branches using an alpha client for now, but will the official JS clients roll out in advance of the official release of the server so we won't have to run Alphas in production until we can get updates in?Also, I know I've mentioned this before, and the response I got was "It will get upvoted enough", but the 11/3 update only had 100ish upvotes, and did not make it to
Topon my instance. I would really, really appreciate an announcement vehicle that allows us to get a notification. As Lemmy does not yet have a "notify for all in community" (or a community just for development updates that others can't post to), could we please get some other vehicle where you post links to these posts? Even a pinned GitHub issue onLemmyNetwould be fantastic, as we could subscribe to that and then see the link to here. Thanks again!lemmy-js-client already has versions for the latest Lemmy code. So you just need to upgrade to the latest version and adjust your code where necessary.
About your second point, there is !announcements@lemmy.ml where only Dessalines and I can post. We could post the updates there and you could follow the community via RSS feed to get notified.
Thanks for the response. I'm using
0.19.0-alpha.18now (edit: in my develop branch), but wasn't sure if I'd have the option to launch my apps with a non-alpha/beta/rc release ahead of the server release or not.For announcements, while I'm not sure all developers who would want this are using RSS (I used to all the time, but haven't lately), that would at least be an option if you were willing to do that. Please let me know if you do plan to make the switch and if so I'll find a basic RSS notifier vs setting up Agriget or TTRSS again. It's a shame we can't turn on notifications for any posts there (similar to if someone replies to a comment/post), as that would be super-helpful here.
The only thing to keep in mind with 0.19 versions is that they are meant to be used with 0.19 backend. This post has some info about supporting 0.18 and 0.19 from the same client, but Im not sure if lemmy-js-client supports that as lemmy-ui only needs to be compatible with a single backend version.
Alright I will post these updates to /c/announcements in the future.
Oh, any idea if there is a js-client community? Hate to spam their issue list but don't see another way to check on their recco for moving forward. And thank you again.
You can ask in the Matrix dev chat.