Draft: simple update description guidelines
David Malcolm
dmalcolm at redhat.com
Wed Jan 28 16:17:29 UTC 2009
On Wed, 2009-01-28 at 21:00 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> > On Wed, 2009-01-28 at 15:50 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> >> Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> >>
> >>> I'd suggest the tone should be less prescriptive - i.e. not so much "you
> >>> must do foo" - and also give some rationale.
> >>>
> >>> e.g. "when preparing your update, consider what the user will see and
> >>> how they will decide whether they should apply the update".
> >> I am probably not going to be very good at doing this. Do you want to try?
> >
> > Okay, here's an attempt:
> >
> > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Markmc/Draft_package_update_guidelines
>
> Thanks. I have made a minor edit making it explicit that this doesn't
> apply to rawhide or new packages. Looks good to me. I will be sending
> this over to FESCo (cc'ing Jon Stanley) unless anybody has other
> specific feedback.
>
How about this rewording in the first sentence:
from "to update a package on a release branch"
to "to update a package on an already-released branch"
to make it clearer that it's only talking about updates to released
versions of Fedora.
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