On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 3:06 PM, Chris Hostetter <[email protected]> wrote: > > : I don't understand the difference. If you are saying rename > : ReleaseNote36 to Release36, then thats fine! > > the difference is we explicitly link to the URL of that page in the > CHANGES.txt and README.txt with the verbage i suggested... > > ...and then if, after publishing the release, we realize we forgot to > mention something in the README.txt or CHANGES.txt we update that wiki > page to include it there.
I don't think we should really set ourselves up for failure. Why can't we document the features in the release up-front and put time into trying to make it readable and concise, its going to be put on the website as well as sent via email to a ton of people, and maybe copy-pasted in blogs etc. Making it "live" won't fix those problems. But see below, I don't really care what happens to these pages after they "serve their purpose" which is to prevent the RM from having to go thru all the changes and try to figure out what they all mean, which ones are really exciting to end users, and figure out how to concisely word them, organize in some meaningful way, and then put this all inside a nicely formatted email with correct grammar, spelling, dates, release numbers. > > : at some point we are going to send an email with some contents, and if > : thats gonna be me, I'm not going to type it up myself > : but have it as a wiki page i copy-paste from... so I don't think it > : should have other functionality/stuff on it... > : > : Does that make sense? > > not really -- but it's also not really relevant. there wouldn't *be* any > other contents on that page when it's time to send the release > announcement out, it would only get added after the release (if ever). > Its pretty relevant. What i'm saying the point of these pages is so the RM can type in TO: announce@, general@, and press ctrl-A, ctrl-C, ctrl-V, and send. They already have too much to worry about rather than reformatting a wiki page with a different formatting. In other words i think these release notes pages should be the *exact note* along with formatting and everything so that its not all pushed onto the RM. After thats done, personally i dont care what happens to them (they could be improved or whatever).... -- lucidimagination.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
