On Wed, Nov 01, 2017 at 02:11:39PM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
I have one argument in favour of keeping the actual release notes
together with the distribution itself: future accessibility. In my
experience, the availability of ancillary bits that were *originally*
provided alongside some piece of software in some way is far less
reliable than the availability of the software itself. You can often
find the actual tarball (or whatever) of some random F/OSS release from
2005, or 1995. It's much less likely that you'll find the associated
Yeah, I guess this is a pretty compelling argument. On the other hand,
I don't want to keep slipping releases for it, and I don't want the
documentation at release time to be seen as frozen, like in-print
books. Perhaps we can have a process where the package is automatically
updated from any changes to the doc site? A "bots do the work" kind of
thing.
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Matthew Miller
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Fedora Project Leader