[HACKYSTAT-DEV-L] Notifying our users of changes

[Aaron Kagawa]

Hey Guys,

I just figured out a problem I was having with the Emma sensor (see 
http://hackydev.ics.hawaii.edu:8080/browse/HACK-709).  The problem 
was that my emma sensor was working fine, then one day after an 
upgrade of our Hackystat version it stopped working.  It took me a 
little while to figure out that the sensor now requires a specific 
depth in the xml report. It didn't before or the depth 
changed.  Regardless of the specific details of the change, i think 
we need to figure out how to notify our users of changes like 
this.  This isn't the first time that this has happened.

I know that this isn't an easy task, but as our user base grows it 
will become increasingly important.  Anyone have any ideas?

thanks, Aaron