Unhelpful update descriptions

[Dan Mashal]

On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 7:15 AM, Dan Mashal <dan.mashal at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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


In fact Koji does this and is a place where I go to get more info and
does this already. You can even get compilation logs! ;)

Bodhi never seemed like a tool to be informative. Just push out updates.

Dan