On Jun 25, 2011, at 11:20 AM, Jeff Forcier wrote: > On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 4:30 AM, ssteiner@idc > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> More of a general observation, really. I see so many release notes like: >> >> 0.4.1 >> ---------- >> Quick bug fix release >> >> But there's no way to know how long it generally is between product >> releases, how quickly the "bug fix" releases got out, etc. Things I >> definitely want to know when contemplating use of a new product. > > I get your point, I just never bothered because I always send out the > announcements at time of release =/ I guess the difference here is I > released a bunch at the same time which gave rise to the "did all > these come out...today?" confusion.
The announcements don't help people newly coming to the project -- they never would have seen them. Change logs with dates are great for getting an overview of the development pace of new projects or catching up with one you've not visited for a while. Unfortunately, they're rare beasts. > FWIW I plan to list recent releases, with dates, prominently on the > new homepage, whenever that gets put together. (Possibly soon since I > badly need a blog set up, and shaking everything up w/ the move to GH > is as good a time as any.) Cool! S Stephen F. Steiner Integrated Development Corporation [email protected] www.integrateddevcorp.com (603)433-1232 _______________________________________________ Fab-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fab-user
