On Thu, 2011-08-25 at 15:17 -0500, Dan Williams wrote: > On Tue, 2011-08-23 at 12:00 +0200, Dominique Leuenberger a.k.a DimStar > wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > Same as I asked about one year ago: > > http://mail.gnome.org/archives/networkmanager-list/2010-August/msg00047.html > > Yes, I botched that part for 0.9. I've been trying hard to keep NEWS > 0.8.x up-to-date but NEWS for 0.9 slipped. I'd since updated the NEWS > file with many of the new features and items for 0.9. So I get > half-credit here :)
You sure do deserve credit! > Yes, I've since updated; I also spent a while putting together a more > consumer friendly blog post here, and I'll be sending the release email > in the next few minutes based on that: > > http://blogs.gnome.org/dcbw/2011/08/25/when-the-sun-shines-well-shine-together/ > Thats' perfect! Thanks for this! This DOES make my life easier and NM 0.9 just hit openSUSE:Factory channels... > > As a downstream packager it is terrible always having to run after all > > kind of systems to find out what is new between any .minor release > > (here from 0.8.9997 to 0.9 for example) and why it would be worthy to > > package it for our users. > > Yeah, I understand completely and I'm sorry. When putting together the > release mail and the blog post yesterday I went to look at NEWS > (assuming I'd already updated it with new features) so that I could use > the contents of it for the release mail and was like "Oh sh*t" because I > know people have asked for me to keep it up to date before. Then I > started thinking about a 'make release' target that would check if NEWS > was updated within the last two days and fail the release tarball if it > wasn't, so that this doesn't happen again. Interesting approach. I like the idea. Best regards, Dominique _______________________________________________ networkmanager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
