Re: NEWS for NM 0.9 ?

[Dimstar / Dominique Leuenberger <dimstar opensuse org>]

On Thu, 2011-08-25 at 15:17 -0500, Dan Williams wrote: 
> On Tue, 2011-08-23 at 12:00 +0200, Dominique Leuenberger a.k.a DimStar
> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > Same as I asked about one year ago:
> > http://mail.gnome.org/archives/networkmanager-list/2010-August/msg00047.html
> 
> Yes, I botched that part for 0.9.  I've been trying hard to keep NEWS
> 0.8.x up-to-date but NEWS for 0.9 slipped.  I'd since updated the NEWS
> file with many of the new features and items for 0.9.  So I get
> half-credit here :)

You sure do deserve credit!

> Yes, I've since updated; I also spent a while putting together a more
> consumer friendly blog post here, and I'll be sending the release email
> in the next few minutes based on that:
> 
> http://blogs.gnome.org/dcbw/2011/08/25/when-the-sun-shines-well-shine-together/
> 

Thats' perfect! Thanks for this! This DOES make my life easier and NM
0.9 just hit openSUSE:Factory channels...

> > As a downstream packager it is terrible always having to run after all  
> > kind of systems to find out what is new between any .minor release  
> > (here from 0.8.9997 to 0.9 for example) and why it would be worthy to  
> > package it for our users.
> 
> Yeah, I understand completely and I'm sorry.  When putting together the
> release mail and the blog post yesterday I went to look at NEWS
> (assuming I'd already updated it with new features) so that I could use
> the contents of it for the release mail and was like "Oh sh*t" because I
> know people have asked for me to keep it up to date before.  Then I
> started thinking about a 'make release' target that would check if NEWS
> was updated within the last two days and fail the release tarball if it
> wasn't, so that this doesn't happen again.

Interesting approach. I like the idea.

Best regards,
Dominique