2013/8/30 Karl Goetz <[email protected]> > Felipe Lopez <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Just to let you know that I created a page called Release Notes [1]. > > There are still no release notes because I couldn't find any in the wiki. > > Great initiative :) > Perhaps for the previous releases we can take some notes from the relevant > announcement emails? They should give some idea and will let us populate > the pages with /something/. >
I just populated release notes with announcements from the users mailing list. > > > I've found Django's release notes very informative and well organized, > > so I'd like to propose we use something similar. See, for example, the > > release notes for Django 1.5 [2]. > > > > I think release notes could help answer questions like the following, > > and others that are asked by people interested in more technical details. > > > > <comradekingu> http://www.gnewsense.org/Main/Features could this be > > updated with stats from the 3.0? > > Good suggestion! (which I see you have done already, thanks.) > > > [11:33] <comradekingu> It would be useful with > > > http://libreplanet.org/wiki/List_of_software_that_does_not_respect_the_Free_System_Distribution_Guidelines#$REFbeing > > seperated into what is different from debian > > [11:33] <comradekingu> we took this, made it into this, doing these > > changes, and this is why that is better > > Not convinced its useful for us to do that, but perhaps others disagree? I > definitely wouldn't stop someone doing said list but not sure I would write > it myself. > > > [11:35] <comradekingu> what modules are taken out/how is the kernel > > changed, what is taken out from main. And what packages are now "fixed" > in main > > [11:39] <comradekingu> Something a little bit better than this > > > http://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/lh/gnewsense/metad/annotate/head:/parkes/blacklist.nonfree > > > bzr.savannah.gnu.org/lh/gnewsense/metad/annotate/head:/parkes/blacklist.needsclean > > > bzr.savannah.gnu.org/lh/gnewsense/metad/annotate/head:/parkes/blacklist.nonfree > > It seems like a lot of duplication to take that same blacklist information > out of bug reports (and the blacklists themselves where applicable) and > then put them in to the wiki. Could we come to some compromise where we try > and make sure bug reports have the relevant details and link to them > instead? > I like that idea. Write better bug reports (more informative) and link in the release notes to the bugs that were fixed for that version. > > > The release notes page is now linked from the download [3] and > documentation [4] > > pages for people interested in knowing the details about the changes > > introduced with each gNewSense release. > > > > What do you think? > > I think it'll be good to have, and definitely something we want to have. > When we get some useful info into the release notes we'll be able to link > it in the topic of irc channels with the download links. > Thanks for your feedback, Karl. > thanks, > kk > > > [1]: http://www.gnewsense.org/ReleaseNotes > > [2]: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.5/releases/1.5/ > > [3]: http://www.gnewsense.org/Main/Download > > [4]: http://www.gnewsense.org/Documentation > > > > _______________________________________________ > gNewSense-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-dev > -- Felipe Lopez http://sirgazil.info/
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