Firstly let me state my problem, which has recurred a lot of times over several years of telerik product usage.
Because Telerik tools are so reliable, I seldom upgrade. I have never had a problem within telerik tools being created by installing a newer version. Maybe I am unique in this, but I doubt it.
So, this brings me into a situation where I download and evaluate new versions very seldom, in regard to the release cycles.
The problem, is that there is no place, as far as I can see, where I can download ALL release notes between versions X and Y. Not that by stating as far as I can see I am intentionally leaving the door open for flames, being semi-blind, and a moron. I willingly agree to all this to get the list I need.
Because frequently (every 6mo or so) I find myself needing a bugfix or feature, and googling will show that the fix has been implemented in version X.
Like today, I was looking for radeditor width fix in IE8 and FF4.
http://www.telerik.com/community/forums/aspnet-ajax/editor/radeditor-width-problem.aspx
So. Then I find that it is indeed possible to update, and my specific problem has already been fixed.
Now in order to evaluate my update from earlier versions, I can tell that the version I have is Y (Q2 2010) from the excellent version listing at:
http://www.telerik.com/products/aspnet-ajax/whats-new/release-history.aspx
In order to evaluate, I would need to find all applicable changenotes, in ONE GO, and then evaluate those against the used features in our current err 9 sites.
However, there is no apparent or easy way to find all radeditor only applicable release or change notes between Q2 2010 and Q3 2010 SP1.
I always go for the latest to alleviate my next need for a fix.
Without a means to do this, I manually have to compile a huge list of changes, then evaluate the radeditor specific changes against my sharepoint 2007, 9 existing sites and each of their used features. They all have separate custom editor toolfiles, skins, css files, everything.
Otherwise of course I won't get the stakeholders (site owners and editors) approval for the new version. By the time I get agreement there's probably a new version out again.
And, yes, this is in part due to our being a government entity.
Then there's deployment, testing, integration testing, QA testing and production.
So, please Telerik take into consideration a way to make documentation regarding changes available for customers with valid support contracts at least, where some page would pull change and fix notes from version X upgrading to version Y, for download or reading.
At least in customers with multiple stakeholders and formal approval processes, this would REALLY make my day. Err year. And next year too.
Because Telerik tools are so reliable, I seldom upgrade. I have never had a problem within telerik tools being created by installing a newer version. Maybe I am unique in this, but I doubt it.
So, this brings me into a situation where I download and evaluate new versions very seldom, in regard to the release cycles.
The problem, is that there is no place, as far as I can see, where I can download ALL release notes between versions X and Y. Not that by stating as far as I can see I am intentionally leaving the door open for flames, being semi-blind, and a moron. I willingly agree to all this to get the list I need.
Because frequently (every 6mo or so) I find myself needing a bugfix or feature, and googling will show that the fix has been implemented in version X.
Like today, I was looking for radeditor width fix in IE8 and FF4.
http://www.telerik.com/community/forums/aspnet-ajax/editor/radeditor-width-problem.aspx
So. Then I find that it is indeed possible to update, and my specific problem has already been fixed.
Now in order to evaluate my update from earlier versions, I can tell that the version I have is Y (Q2 2010) from the excellent version listing at:
http://www.telerik.com/products/aspnet-ajax/whats-new/release-history.aspx
In order to evaluate, I would need to find all applicable changenotes, in ONE GO, and then evaluate those against the used features in our current err 9 sites.
However, there is no apparent or easy way to find all radeditor only applicable release or change notes between Q2 2010 and Q3 2010 SP1.
I always go for the latest to alleviate my next need for a fix.
Without a means to do this, I manually have to compile a huge list of changes, then evaluate the radeditor specific changes against my sharepoint 2007, 9 existing sites and each of their used features. They all have separate custom editor toolfiles, skins, css files, everything.
Otherwise of course I won't get the stakeholders (site owners and editors) approval for the new version. By the time I get agreement there's probably a new version out again.
And, yes, this is in part due to our being a government entity.
Then there's deployment, testing, integration testing, QA testing and production.
So, please Telerik take into consideration a way to make documentation regarding changes available for customers with valid support contracts at least, where some page would pull change and fix notes from version X upgrading to version Y, for download or reading.
At least in customers with multiple stakeholders and formal approval processes, this would REALLY make my day. Err year. And next year too.