Unhelpful update descriptions

[Dan Mashal]

On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 2:39 AM, Jaroslav Reznik <jreznik at redhat.com> wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
>> On 03/12/2013 01:30 AM, Dan Mashal wrote:
>> > Semantics.
>>
>> Providing a link is helpful to users isn't semantics.  You as a
>> package
>> maintainer would be aware of where to look for reviewing the changes
>> before pushing an update.  Users don't since it is different for
>> different projects and is not necessarily obvious or even easily
>> searchable.  Just take that few seconds of additional effort and
>> provide
>> the link.
>
> Yep, I think the link, when available, is very useful. What I try
> is to pick up a few most important changes directly affecting
> Fedora and then I link full Changelog.
>
> So maybe idea - what about a dedicated field in Bodhi for upstream's
> Changelog and then present it for users in PackageKit in a some nicer
> way - real, clickable link... Not sure it will be possible in our
> Packaging GUIs and also we try to hide updates as much as possible
> from our users...
>
> Jaroslav
>
>>
>> Rahul
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Have bodhi grab it from the RPM change log spec file. Don't make
packager do more work than they already have to.

Dan