Re: [Semediawiki-user] [News] SMW 1.4.3 released

[Markus K. <ma...@se...>]

On Mittwoch, 5. August 2009, CW Dillon wrote:
> Markus,
> Thanks for this release.  I'm looking forward to the new error handling,
> especially for empty values.
>
> Is there a list of *which* bug fixes were fixed in this release?  

Not really, since at least half of the bugs were not even filed into the 
bugtracker.

> Of
> course, I'm most interested in the one I submitted on file re-uploads not
> affecting the Modified on:: property value, 

This one is still open. You should receive email notifications whenever any of 
your bug reports are updated. If your email address is not in the list of 
people who are notified for this bug, you can add yourself via the Bugzilla 
interface.

> but a general list may also
> clue me into other things I might be watching and what it takes to keep-up
> the overall quality of my sites.

In general, the search feature of Bugzilla can be used to get some insight 
into the bugfixing activity. If you have an account there, you can store the 
query for future use.

If you are interested in improving content quality, then the new "Has improper 
value for" property should be very useful, too. You need to update a site's 
data to get it set for existing pages (using Special:SMWAdmin). I already 
found this very useful to fix various unnoticed issues on some of our sites. 
See e.g. http://semanticweb.org/wiki/Property:Has_improper_value_for
(this still shows some things that one could fix).

I also found it surprising how few errors exist overall even on a site like 
semanticweb.org that has quite a lot of abandoned content that might well have 
been broken during the long life of SMW. I guess this shows that we are pretty 
good at maintaining backwards compatibility after all :-)

Cheers,

Markus

>
> Thanks,
> CW
>
> Markus Krötzsch wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > the new version of Semantic MediaWiki, SMW 1.4.3, is now available for
> > download [1] and in SVN [2]. This is still a minor release, but it still
> > brings some new features and a significant number of bug fixes.


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Markus Krötzsch
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