microsoft / microsoft/pxt-microbit
In-editor notification for major releases
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Description
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Related to:
Some users had some issues with the latest MakeCode 2022 release. One specific piece of feedback provided is that the editor autoupdated itself with significant changes without any kind of indication to the user. So, their programme worked one day and failed the next.
In this cases users can still us the older release, https://makecode.microbit.org/v4, but they were only able to figure this out after contacting support.
Describe the solution you'd like
We might want to consider having some kind of indication in the editor itself for future major releases?
Describe alternatives you've considered
N/A
Additional context
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Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reading related issue #4788 and reviewing how the MakeCode editor handles releases and updates. Define the user-facing indication needed for major releases and how users can continue using an older release; the issue is complete when this behavior is specified and implemented with an agreed validation path.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- typescript
- Domain
- frontend
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100