Re: More unhelpful update descriptions

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On 07/10/2013 07:53 PM, Ben Boeckel wrote:
> On Wed, 03 Jul, 2013 at 04:35:58 GMT, Alex G. wrote:
>> We shouldn't be surprised that update descriptions are crap. They are
>> just an annoyance for a lot of us, especially since we've put all that
>> information in a bunch of other places.
> 
> Where else would information like the information in this update[1]
> belong? It doesn't make sense in the spec changelog or the fedora-git
> changelog. This also isn't from the upstream changelog since it's
> jumping a version and some of the intermediates are really of little
> consequence to users. I'm all for tooling, but it won't do everything
> for you; there's still work involved.
> 
You're forgetting the human factor which is, well, forgetting. Or
hitting the wrong key by mistake. It's preferable to default to the
changelog (spec or git or whatever), than to have a completely unrelated
place-holder message.

Alex

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