Lack of update information

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Tue Jan 27 09:00:20 UTC 2009


Denis Leroy wrote:

> I find it unreasonable to ask of package maintainers to take the role of 
> technical writers. Anything beyond copy/pasting will widen the gap 
> between packages maintained by native english speakers and packages that 
> aren't. ChangeLog typically contains a large number of fairly detailed 
> technical changes that has no place in the RPM spec log or in bodhi. i 
> think it's unreasonable to ask anything more that a comment such as 'bug 
> fix release' or 'introduces some new features'.

Adding a reference and a sentence or two does not need any technical 
writer. Besides, being a technical writer isn't that hard. I was one for 
a while.

Rahul




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