Re: [Tracker] regarding NEWS file

[Tshepang Lekhonkhobe <tshepang gmail com>]

On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 12:17 PM, Martyn Russell <martyn imendio com> wrote:
> Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote:
> > Hi,
>
> Hi,
>
> > Is it really necessary to have bugzilla numbers and details in the
> > NEWS file? I find it to be noisy and wonder if people actually read
> > those.
>
> The NEWS file can have whatever you want in it. In my other projects, I tend
> to put the things that have changed. This includes:
>
> - Bugs
> - Translations
> - Manual translations
> - Features

I feel that features and changes are the only things that should be
documented in there.

> People will read bugs if they know of a bug they have and want to see if it
> was fixed. Of course, some people might just be interested.

I feel that if people were interested in specific bugs, they'd
actually subscribe to them.

> This is totally up to the maintainer(s). I for one, like to see everything
> that changed, otherwise the NEWS is a bit fuzzy, it only includes some of
> what changed.

I feel that NEWS should have your newsworthy kind of stuff, and that
'everything' should go to the Changelog.



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