On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 03:56:04PM -0600, Chris Adams wrote: > Once upon a time, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@xxxxxxxxxx> said: > > > * Simplifying the process for self-contained features (e.g. individual > > > package version upgrades) > > > > I don't see why these are features at all. Surely it's better towards > > the end of each release cycle for someone to compare the versions of > > packages and add something in the release notes for each major GUI / > > programming language / user application that got a big update. > > Rather than make "someone" review a whole bunch of stuff, it would be > much easier for maintainers to submit what they are doing. Frankly, if > a maintainer doesn't think it is worth their while to announce a major > change, then it isn't worth someone else's time to sift through the > whole distribution and look for "notable" changes. Well fair enough, but at the moment these have to go through the feature process, which is extremely cumbersome for a routine upgrade. Take a look at: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/GHC741 That's a huge amount of text for a routine version bump in a set of minor packages. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones virt-top is 'top' for virtual machines. Tiny program with many powerful monitoring features, net stats, disk stats, logging, etc. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
