From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 35421 invoked by alias); 19 Nov 2015 15:14:05 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 35408 invoked by uid 89); 19 Nov 2015 15:14:04 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_05,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: plane.gmane.org Received: from plane.gmane.org (HELO plane.gmane.org) (80.91.229.3) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES256-SHA encrypted) ESMTPS; Thu, 19 Nov 2015 15:14:02 +0000 Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZzQuH-0002Uy-FF for cygwin@cygwin.com; Thu, 19 Nov 2015 16:13:53 +0100 Received: from c-69-140-37-22.hsd1.md.comcast.net ([69.140.37.22]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 19 Nov 2015 16:13:53 +0100 Received: from schulman.andrew by c-69-140-37-22.hsd1.md.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 19 Nov 2015 16:13:53 +0100 To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Andrew Schulman Subject: does anyone care about package minor version bump announcements? Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2015 15:14:00 -0000 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archive: encrypt X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2015-11/txt/msg00270.txt.bz2 Lately I find myself feeling quite unmotivated about writing a mostly boilerplate announcement every time I upload a minor version bump of a package I maintain. "stow has been updated from version 2.2.0 to 2.2.2. You can read the upstream changelog to see what changed. stow is blah blah blah" 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. Andrew -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple