Re: What's New Pages

[Paul Cutler <pcutler gnome org>]

On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 10:06 -0600, Shaun McCance wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> This is another half-baked idea in my brain.
> 
> "What's New" pages are really nice to have in application help.
> Users who love the program love to look at a succinct list of
> cool new things they can do.  So let's do them, yeah?
> 
> But how about we don't do them, and instead ask developers to
> do them.  We'll put a page with a standard name (whatsnew.page)
> in the help.  When the developers merge in cool new features,
> they can just add a bullet point to this file.
> 
> <item><p>You can now frobnicate files!</p></item>
> 
> They'll forget sometimes, of course.   So at feature freeze we
> send them a reminder to look at whatsnew.page and make sure it
> has everything.
> 
> Developers don't need to write the final content.  They'd just
> provide basic bullet points.  We'll go through their bullet
> points, decide if we have to write new help because of them
> (we probably do), and then make the "What's New" page shiny.
> 
> Does this sound like something we'd like to explore?
> 
> --
> Shaun
> 
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Love it.  Devs are required to update new features for the release notes
too, which will help as it is a similar process.

Paul