I don't think the second part is what we want to say. How about this: We have re-organized the Racket code base into a small main repo and many other small repos to facilitate community involvement.
? Robby On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 3:16 PM, Matthias Felleisen <[email protected]> wrote: > > Let me remind everyone of our announcement style: > http://blog.racket-lang.org/2014/11/racket-v611.html > > Also I think we should separate announcements and justifications. > Keep announcements short. Link them to justifications if needed. > The repo split sounds like a topic that falls into this category. > > Finally, I prefer positive over negative language. > > For example, we could write > > We have re-organized the Racket code base into a small > main repo and several small packages on github. While > this new organization should be invisible to the Racket > programmer, it may have consequences that our comprehensive > testing overlooked and we therefore share this information > with our users. > > -- Matthias > > > > > > On Jun 12, 2015, at 1:26 PM, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote: > > That sounds good. > > On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 2:20 PM Robby Findler <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> How about something more like this for the first one: >> >> "The git repository for Racket development no longer contains most of >> the packages distributed with the release. Instead, they are now in >> their own git repositories (which has lots of incidental benefits >> ranging from more focused history to smaller team formation to less >> code in the privileged repo), thanks to help from our new pkg system." >> >> Robby >> >> >> >> On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 12:08 PM, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> > On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 12:53 PM, Ryan Culpepper <[email protected]> >> > wrote: >> >> The release announcement sketch that I have so far is below. Please >> >> mail me new items and/or edits. >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> >> >> - split repository (samth 29873382) >> > >> > The git repository for Racket development no longer contains most of the >> > packages distributed with the release. >> > >> >> * Typed Racket now displays tooltips in DrRacket that show the types of >> >> expressions. Tooltips are also displayed for type errors. >> > >> > * Typed Racket no longer loads generated contracts unless they are >> > needed, >> > reducing memory use and startup time for Typed Racket programs. >> > >> > * Typed Racket now better supports prefab structures, future >> > semaphores, and async channels. >> > >> > * Typed Racket now tracks the relationship between different >> > variables, which makes programs using macros like `match` work better. >> > >> > -- >> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> > Groups "Racket Developers" group. >> > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >> > an email to [email protected]. >> > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> > To view this discussion on the web visit >> > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-dev/CAK%3DHD%2BY4i%3DDbxDdieutV%2BneTjvnMSZDnUA9mEm1-6u_wkeVJrQ%40mail.gmail.com. >> > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Racket Developers" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-dev/CAL3TdOPYcuy9JPotuxYTZbCmd-o2_6m4SW2F5O4OzQiAAkONig%40mail.gmail.com. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Racket Developers" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-dev/CAK%3DHD%2BaU43L24EHMGBnER-_sCEzrp%3Dt73KnKAV4NtL-6iZvJ3Q%40mail.gmail.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-dev/CAL3TdOP9Wqnx%3D3JMSe5dxp%2BM4sQV3tQ0E8WLXnj1-HOe9RO%3D%2BQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
