Version Specific Release Type Tags

[mbax]

Would be nice to be able to send from a selectable list the type of release a file is.

• Bug fix
• New feature
• Security fix

That way, you could have plugins query this when checking for updates and alert if there's a security fix as a file between the current version and latest.

[phase]

To be more specific, you're proposing we have tags notating what "type of release" a specific version is.

This could be another section of tags on the versions page.

[codeHusky]

being able to attach specific bits of information to why things are tagged as they are so the server admins can decide in game when they want to update would be best.

Sure this is "abusable" but it's just as abusable as any other part of release data.

[phase]

You're saying linking to, say, a blog post on what security issues were fixed would be helpful? I think that's a good idea. We already have a release post generated when you create a new version, and we could have a textbox (if it doesn't already exist (pardon my misremembering of the version creation screen)) that would be appended to the release post, and their can be a link to it from the tags mentioned. This sound good?

[codeHusky]

It's more so that it's easy for plugins to pull from the data and present to server admins so they know why they should update, not just that they should

[felixoi]

@codeHusky Correct me if I misunderstood this:
You wanna have a release type as mentioned before with a optional description? So you can include the description if you do a security fix, then you fetch the lastest version from the API, check if it's a security fix and warn the server admins that there is a security fix and you display the description.

[codeHusky]

Display the details of the security fix specifically, yeah.

[mbax]

Can I get an example scenario where there's a benefit to the user in showing them the nature of the security fix in game or in console, over just noting it's a security fix (and thus high priority fixing) and directing to the Ore page for details?

[codeHusky]

Release is out for a big dupe bug via a plugin. Owner runs a survival server and would prefer not to restart. They are notified of the exploit via the nature being notified to them and immediately update to prevent damage to in game economy.