Re: Intention to retire Release Notes RPM

[Martin Kolman]

On Mon, 2019-08-05 at 20:44 -0400, Neal Gompa wrote:
>  On Mon, Aug 5, 2019 at 8:43 PM Martin Kolman
> <mkolman(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote:
>  > On Sat, 2019-08-03 at 03:45 -0400, Neal Gompa wrote:
>  > > On Sat, Aug 3, 2019 at 3:10 AM Brian (bex) Exelbierd
>  > > <bexelbie(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote:
>  > > > Hi All,
>  > > > 
>  > > > Barring objection, I plan to retire the release notes package from
>  > > > Fedora on or after August 9, 2019.  The package has not been updated
>  > > > since F28.  Despite the fact that we have literally shipped a package
>  > > > containing the F28 release notes in F29 and F30, there have been no
>  > > > comments.  This has been discussed with the docs team and is
>  > > > supported.  I am not aware of any dependencies and I believe it was
>  > > > removed from release criteria in F29.
>  > > > 
>  > > > I will run `fedpkg retire` and further request removal via
>  > > >
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/enter_bug.cgi?product=Fedora&version=rawh...
>  > > > 
>  > > > Please reply on list if you have any questions or concerns.
>  > > > 
>  > > 
>  > > Does Anaconda not support showing the release notes _anywhere_? That
>  > > was the original impetus for shipping it that way...
>  > There is currently no screen in either graphical or text interface of Anaconda that
> would show Fedora release notes.
>  
>  Aside from it being mildly depressing that there's no way to discover
>  the release notes for a Fedora release, I guess it's fine to retire.
>  We don't have any other entry points in the distribution for viewing
>  the release notes anymore... 
At least for the online release notes, aren't they
somewhere on the default landing page in Firefox after initial Fedora
installation ? I seem to remember something like that.
>  
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