Release notes have a launcher - maybe we should remove that

[Pete Travis]

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On 08/30/2014 10:52 AM, Pete Travis wrote:
>
> On 08/30/2014 10:42 AM, Michael Catanzaro wrote:
> > On Sat, 2014-08-30 at 19:22 +0300, Elad Alfassa wrote:
> >> I really don't undertand why "not installing the release notes" is
> >> such a big change we need to wait for the next cycle to implement.
> >> It's really just a one line change. And if we want to install them but
> >> not provide a launcher (so they could be opened by a bookmark in
> >> Firefox) than I'd happily provide a patch to split the launcher to a
> >> subpackage.
>
> > Eh, I'm just picking my battles here. A Release Notes launcher that
> > starts Firefox is not good and we should get rid of it, but it's not
> > very bad either and if the release notes people want another cycle to
> > rethink how to present the release notes, well why not let them have it?
>
> > Another thing we could do is add it as a default web app. GNOME Software
> > requires "epiphany-runtime" which is all of Epiphany except the desktop
> > file, so that it can install and remove web apps. Well, why not make the
> > release notes a web app -- then the release notes team gets to keep the
> > desktop launcher, and we are happy since it's a real application.
>
>
>
> Someone had proposed that in #fedora-docs late yesterday, I like it. 
I'm working on some copy right now, and will go for an ephiphany web-app
style presentation in GNOME for the next RPM.
>
> For the record, the collaboration part of my arguments here are *far*
more important to me than the actual inclusion of a Release Notes RPM. 
It's a valid discussion, and I would much rather start on that basis,
instead of potentially missing a discussion about a design philosophy on
a SIG list, then finding out about the impact when I learn that an RC
isn't meeting release criteria because of my package.
>
>

There's a more native presentation in an RPM available at
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=573983 ,  or soon
from an updates-testing mirror near you.  What do you think?
- -- 
- -- Pete Travis
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