Sylvain Wallez wrote: > > David Crossley wrote: > > >Carsten Ziegeler wrote: > > > >>Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: > >> > >>>Edd Dumbill wrote: > >>> > >>>>Carsten Ziegeler wrote: > >>>> > >>>>>Apache Cocoon 2.0.1 Released > >>>>>---------------------------- > >>>>> > >>>>I've given this a mention on the XMLhack newswire. If the > release note > >>>>had included major diffs between 2.0.1 and 2.0.0 I could have made a > >>>>bigger article out of it -- if you're able to, it would be good to see > >>>>more detailed announcements. I just didn't have the time/context to > >>>>figure out what was significant and what wasn't from the ChangeLog. > >>>> > >>>Very good point, Edd. > >>> > >>>We'll make sure that next announcements will be more detailed and more > >>>informative both to users and to the press people that help us spread > >>>the word. > >>> > >>>Thanks for your 'bug report' :) > >>> > >>I fixed this 'bug' after the 2.0.1 release as soon as I got aware of it. > >>So our next announcements are more verbose. Promised. > >> > >>Carsten > >> > > > >We could tweak the DTD changes-v1?.dtd to provide a > >high-level announcement action in changes.xml which would > >then get extracted at Announcement time. One easy way > >would be to provide an additional value for the "type" attribute > >of the <action> element. > > types "add|remove|update|fix" ... |announce > > > >In that way actions can be described in detail as per normal. > >If the change or new feature is worthy of mention in the > >Announcement, then we add another <action> entry to provide > >the specific announcment text. > > > >--David Crossley > > > I proposed to add a new attribute on <action> named "importance" taking > the values "high|medium|low" (low by default). This would allow to build > an announcement by extracting all high importance actions. > > A new attribute would also avoid to either loose the information of > "add|remove|update", or duplicate the action text to add it to the > annoucements. It would also allow to order items in the releases notes > depending on their importance. > > Thoughts ? > Seeing these alternatives, I think the one from Sylvain is easier-to-use. But this requires for all of us (especially me...) to spend more time in the texts of the changes.log. And some native-speakers should have a look at it before a release.
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