Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 08:51:19 -0800 From: "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@FreeBSD.org> To: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> Cc: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Status reports - why not regularly? Message-ID: <20040114165119.GA6615@intruder.kitchenlab.org> In-Reply-To: <20040113223314.684c9ca4@Magellan.Leidinger.net> References: <400428DC.2060108@theatre.msu.edu> <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1040113135122.26227E-100000@fledge.watson.org> <20040113223314.684c9ca4@Magellan.Leidinger.net>
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--y0ulUmNC+osPPQO6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable If memory serves me right, Alexander Leidinger wrote: > On Tue, 13 Jan 2004 13:56:53 -0500 (EST) > Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org> wrote: >=20 > > The "summarize the commits" would also be an excellent approach, but it > > will be a lot more labor intensive. >=20 > Don't we have something like this already? We just need to provide 'some > kind of a diff' of bmah's work. At least from an end-user point of view > that's all what's needed (they want to know: X is new, Y is improved). Since this message just happened to mention me, I figure I'll reply to it: The "diff of bmah's work" doesn't work real well because I sometimes let the release notes diverge from reality, as long as they're back in sync for a release. (For the record, there *are* other people who commit to the release notes besides me, not many, but there are a few.) Anyways, for people who are really desperate to try this, there's always cvsweb. :-) BTW, contributions for the release notes (for example, things that should be documented but aren't) are always welcome. I actually really like the format of the bi-monthly development reports because they give developers a chance to talk in some depth about stuff that was *ongoing*, rather than work they had already committed. I've always been impressed by the quality and depth of the snippets that have gone into these. Bruce. --y0ulUmNC+osPPQO6 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFABXOH2MoxcVugUsMRAg0ZAJ9wzdwcXqcLRFHNSMEkPNgfApFmkQCg85Pp LbnrCC85Viu3w9dPceuNHAM= =4Hws -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --y0ulUmNC+osPPQO6--
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