Hi Bernd,

>>Looking into the allfeatures mailing list (did I already say "kudos to
>>you" for working around collab.net's bug, so this list now works,
>>again?), of the last 10 feature mails, 8 contained a specification link,
>>where 5 referred to older-and-extended specs (including the broken one).
>>
>>Means that half of the auto-generated release notes is wrong.
>
> Interesting argument.

Let me make it even more interesting. (Side note: There's one new
feature mail since some hours ago, which leads to "11 mails, 9 with spec
link, 5 referring to old/extended specs".)

Of the 4 last postings which contained a link to a newly written spec,
the following are the first paragraphs of 2 of them:

"The support for regular expressions is extended by “backward references”.

"This specification documents changes made to the Calc options dialog."

Which adds to: Of the 11 most recent feature announcements, the "take
the abstract from the spec"-process will produce wrong or
only-slightly-useful descriptions in 7 cases.

> Well the *then* using the spec is kind of not really an option.
> ...

I see.

To me this means we should get rid of the spec-abstract thingie. I
suggest a feature mail contains a "release note abstracts" field and a
"comprehensive description" field. EIS should distinct them both in the
UI, when writing a mail.

Ciao
Frank

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