On Fri, 26 May 2017, Kwankyu Lee wrote:
As an example, I could put something like this for 8.0:- Finite lattices now have function to compute congruence, and several congruence-related functions like quotient lattice, lattice of congruences and checks if a lattice is regular, uniform or isoform.
This is a nice example (if you remove the "part of that is already on 7.6."). Actually I think 2-3 sentences note should be enough. But the appropriate length would of course depend on the ticket.
This was done in ~10 bigger ticket and another ~10 with small modifications. As an example see https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/21861
Hence the ticket system would be wrong place for this. For something like this we should have a wiki page. It should have short guidelines, mostly "Keep it simple and short!!!". It should concentrate on user viewpoint: It may be that a backend function for version 8.1 takes much work and a interface function for version 8.2 is quite trivial; then the developer should say nothing in the highlights of 8.1.
-- Jori Mäntysalo
