Unhelpful update descriptions

[Sandro Mani]

On 11.03.2013 17:06, Jared K. Smith wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 11:41 AM, Michael Catanzaro
> <mike.catanzaro at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Perhaps the update policy should have a guideline on the minimum amount
>> of information required in this description. E.g. "update to latest
>> upstream version" might be a perfectly acceptable description for Fedora
>> given the fast pace of updates, but I don't think users should ever be
>> seeing "no update information available" and especially not "here is
>> where you give an explanation of your update." (And I've seen this one
>> multiple times within the past couple of weeks.)
> I tend to agree here.  That being said, most of my package updates are
> something along the lines of "Update to upstream 2.5 release" -- would
> you find that descriptive enough, or still lacking in detail?
>
> --
> Jared Smith

Just an idea: maybe we could introduce the convention of including a 
link to the upstream changelog in the update description? For instance 
by inviting package maintainers to paste such a link in an apposite 
field when doing a fedpkg update? While it's true that users can look up 
that information on their own, usually package maintainers already know 
where the upstream changelog can be found, whereas users might need to 
do some searching.


Sandro