2008/9/21 Graham Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Let me put it this way: when you read an announcement of a new > release in some other software (say, audacity or freeciv), how > much do you want to read? My guess is less than a page of text. > The current release is two pages. It definitely shouldn't be > longer.
It didn't seem so long when I first read it. In fact, I like to read changelogs. A good (IMO) example is the recent announcement for VLC media player: http://wiki.videolan.org/What_is_cool_in_0.9/ > WTM does "X new features" mean? I mean, is vertical collision > avoidance one "feature", and pointAndClick{On/Off} another > "feature"? This is a completely vacuous phrase. Yes, that what's cool about it :-) If you used to read distributions release announcements like I do, you'd see what I mean. > It might be good to prepare a "STFU newb and read the News" page > on the wiki, though. That way you can just paste the link to > there, instead of wasting time writing paragraphs and paragraphs > of helpful text for each frequently asked question like you > normally do. Yes, John and I are planning to work on the Wiki soon (even if the word "soon" has lost most of its meaning to me lately). > Sounds good. John, send it to Valentin; Valentin, send it to > Trevor. I no longer have the actual release-notes.txt file, so > make sure you don't lose your copy. OK. Cheers, Valentin _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
