More unhelpful update descriptions

Till Maas opensource at till.name
Mon Jul 1 19:36:12 UTC 2013


On Mon, Jul 01, 2013 at 02:01:29PM -0500, Michael Catanzaro wrote:

> And as far as the tooling is concerned... this is the matter of writing
> just one extra sentence, so even if we did have awesome technology to
> write the update description for you from the RPM changelog, and even if
> it was considered acceptable to present that to users, it's not like
> that would save a ton of time and effort.

According to Bodhi it would have saved more than 10000 sentences for
Fedora 17.

> I absolutely think there should be at least some minimal level of
> quality to what we present to users in the default graphical update
> interface....

You easily get a good minimal level of quality by just using the
available information in an update such as the type and mentioned bug
reports.

Regards
Till


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