On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 12:52 PM, John J. McDonough <wb8rcr@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > We had a short discussion of this at this morning's meeting but felt a > broader discussion here was warranted. > > When preparing the Release Notes, we often ask the developers for wiki > input, and generally come up dry. More recently, we look though the > repos for changes, but the upstream release notes are often very poor or > nonexistent. Every release includes literally thousands of changed > packages, and while we strive to document "significant" changes, these > poor upstream release notes leave us little clue as to what constitutes > "significant". Certainly the feature pages get us started, but they > only capture a tiny fraction of what changes in a release. > > But if we think about the maintainers, chances are they begin working on > the next thing just as soon as the compose closes for the previous > release, if not sooner. Very likely they have an interest in the > packages they are maintaining, and it would not be surprising if they > viewed some features to be important. > > But by the time we ask for input, odds are they have moved on and most > of the updated packages in the new release are ancient history. > > However, if we were to open the beats as soon as possible, certainly > when the compose closes or even as soon as we have converted the beats > to XML, then the developers could make a note in the wiki about what is > significant, right at the time they are working on it and interested in > it. > > Of course we would still need to remind the maintainers that we want > their input, and especially that it doesn't need to be beautiful prose - > all we really need is a clue as to what is important. But I think if we > can capture the input early, we have better odds of getting more > complete release notes. > > Is this something we should do? Is there something different we should > be doing? > > --McD I think you should focus on "Common Bugs" and work with the IRC support SIG. Dan -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
