On Feb 21, 2013, at 18:29 , Noah Slater <[email protected]> wrote: > Your response rests on a fallacy, in any case. > > Maintaining a list of release versions is going to be a PITA no matter what > we do. Especially when we have four or five divergent timelines. Moving > these to the docs only consolidates the maintenance into one file. This > will still require care and attention, and I believe it is appropriate of > me to remind people of that. The current state of affairs is a complete > mess.
All I know is we spend hours and days on this each release and I don’t think this needs to be the case. Best Jan -- > > > On 21 February 2013 17:19, Jan Lehnardt <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> On Feb 21, 2013, at 18:16 , Noah Slater <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> If you're doing a release, please ensure proper NEWS and CHANGES hygiene >>> The recent releases went out with a entries in these files for versions >> we >>> have not yet released. And some are missing entries for previous versions >>> we have released. I have added a few additional instructions to the wiki, >>> so hopefully these will be caught next time. >> >> Alternatively, let’s finally kill this superfluous, error-prone, >> time-wasting >> distraction from actual work and ensure the important information contained >> in it are covered in the docs. >> >> Cheers >> Jan >> -- >> >> > > > -- > NS
