[racket-dev] Release Announcement for v5.3, third draft

First, the grouping was not at all obvious from the text of the
release announcement.  Second, we (meaning the release manager) should
make an effort to sort by importance.  Release announcements are one
of the primary ways that we communicate the cool things we're doing to
our users.  We should take advantage of that to help them use some of
the really cool new things we've added, like better error messages and
generics.

On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 11:50 AM, Matthias Felleisen
<matthias at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
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> When you have a huge enumeration, like we do here, I think importance is extremely difficult to evaluate for a reasonably large audience but topics are easy to group. If you don't mind, let's leave it alone.
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> On Aug 2, 2012, at 11:46 AM, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote:
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>> On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 11:44 AM, Matthias Felleisen
>> <matthias at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
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>>> Why? They are currently grouped according to features, e.g., class contracts and class abstract, and placed into adjacent groups, e.g., classes next to generics.
>>
>> I attempted to order them by (my impression of) importance to Racket
>> programmers.  For example, the new error messages are likely to be the
>> first thing people notice about v5.3.
>>
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>>>
>>> On Aug 2, 2012, at 11:24 AM, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote:
>>>
>>>> I think the below should be somewhat reordered, as follows:
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 11:16 AM, Ryan Culpepper <ryan at cs.utah.edu> wrote:
>>>>> * Most error messages use a new multi-line format
>>>>> * The new `racket/generic' library
>>>>> * The contract library comes with support for
>>>>> * The futures visualizer
>>>>> * Optimization Coach
>>>>> * Typed Racket supports function definitions with keyword arguments
>>>>> * A new `json' library
>>>>> * The `class' form supports declaring a method abstract.
>>>>> * The new `images/flomap' library
>>>>> * `racket/string' is extended
>>>> --
>>>> sam th
>>>> samth at ccs.neu.edu
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>>
>> --
>> sam th
>> samth at ccs.neu.edu
>



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