Re: Proposal: "What's new"

[Patryk Zawadzki <patrys pld-linux org>]

On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 10:34 AM, Sven Herzberg <herzi gnome-de org> wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, den 18.11.2009, 10:12 +0100 schrieb Patryk Zawadzki:
>> The idea is to add another option called "What's new" to the Help menu
>> in all GNOME applications. As the name suggest it would contain a
>> Grandma-Readable™ changelog. This means something closer to the
>> release notes than to "Fixed #123, foo shouldn't dereference NULLs in
>> foo::frobnicate()".
>>
>> Goals? Two really. One - to make it easier for users to discover newly
>> introduced features. Two - to make it easier to write GNOME release
>> notes.
> Sounds like a nice idea, really. But then I'm facing this question: "How
> do I specify version numbers in a grandma-friendly way?"
>
> Do we expect granny to know about version numbers? Do we write those
> only for major and minor version changes (like six-monthly releases)? Do
> we call the single sections "Changes since Spring 2009" (to avoid
> version numbers)?

Yes, I was thinking about using GNOME release dates instead of version
numbers. My father might know what Ubuntu 10.1 is but he'd certainly
have no idea what GNOME version it ran (or even what GNOME is).

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Patryk Zawadzki