Sit back and let Uncle Shaun tell you a story. A long time ago, GNOME releases just kind of happened, and docs either happened with them or they didn't. Usually they didn't. Then we implemented release schedules with freezes. That helped the docs team a lot. We were able to start documenting as of feature freeze without worrying much about everything changing out from underneath us.
The only problem was that we weren't always sure when things branched for new development. This was back in the CVS or SVN days. I'm not sure. My memory is hazy. But we just didn't know. And back in those days, we had to build everything ourselves, which was time consuming. We didn't have Flatpaks. We didn't have Boxes. This might have even been before jhbuild. So we required maintainers to send us an email when they branched. Then we switched to git, and we discovered we could just send those notification emails automatically, which made maintainers' lives a lot easier. And emails were more reliable, which made it easier for us to spend too much time building software. My question is, are these notifications still useful? Because there are a lot of them, far more than the volume of real human conversation. Discuss. -- Shaun _______________________________________________ gnome-doc-list mailing list gnome-doc-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-doc-list