Eike Rathke wrote:

> Hi Bernd,
> 
> On Wednesday, 2007-11-14 10:06:21 +0100, Bernd Eilers wrote:
> 
>>> Seconded. The "dirty" in the fall-back is that it doesn't preserve
>>> formatting ;-) i.e. the text written should be surrounded by <pre> tags,
>>> e.g. see i74918 in http://development.openoffice.org/releases/2.3.0.html
>>
>> Oh no Eike, that´s just a missing Feature on my side which I would need to 
>> fix ;-)
> 
> Fine :)
> 
>> What I consider bad on using this fallback is the problem that the 
>> feature-info is often to technical to be used for the release notes, eg.  
>> it´s often mentioning stuff like ChildWorkspaces where something got 
>> integrated etc. which the end user doesn´t know about what this is but 
>> well that may be only my impression.
> 
> That's a matter of education then. Developers should get acquainted with
> the idea that feature announcements should be written such that they're
> end user compatible ;-)

Exactly. Feature mails never where intended to be understandable only to
developers. And besides that: specs aren't better in this regard. ;-)

We should see that a lot of small features and enhancements are done
without a full spec. And IMHO this should not be changed. So specs can't
be the default, only the fallback. Not for a missing feature mail but
for an (intentionally) missing description.

Ciao,
Mathias

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Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead OpenOffice.org Writer
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