From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: does anyone care about package minor version bump announcements?
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2015 15:48:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151119154843.GB2755@calimero.vinschen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <564DE847.2000502@gmail.com>
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On Nov 19 10:18, cyg Simple wrote:
> On 11/19/2015 10:13 AM, Andrew Schulman wrote:
> > Does anyone care about that? Lately I don't. In fact I've skipped sending
> > the last few, and no one seems to have noticed.
> >
> > Can we leave it to the maintainer's discretion about whether they need to
> > send one of those on every update? Maybe it already is, and I didn't know.
> > Of course some updates are important or need explanation or a headsup, and
> > then the maintainer should send one.
>
> My opinion is that every time the package is modified there should be an
> announcement of the new package and what was changed. Pointing to a
> ChangeLog may be fine but not announcing the change is just wrong.
I agree. Maybe cygport's new (in testing) "announce" command simplifies
it enough to be not much of a burden?
Corinna
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-11-19 15:14 Andrew Schulman
2015-11-19 15:18 ` cyg Simple
2015-11-19 15:48 ` Corinna Vinschen [this message]
2015-11-19 16:24 ` Nellis, Kenneth
2015-11-19 20:50 ` Andrey Repin
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