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Re: does anyone care about package minor version bump announcements?


On Nov 19 10:18, cyg Simple wrote:
> On 11/19/2015 10:13 AM, Andrew Schulman wrote:
> > Does anyone care about that?  Lately I don't.  In fact I've skipped sending
> > the last few, and no one seems to have noticed.
> > 
> > Can we leave it to the maintainer's discretion about whether they need to
> > send one of those on every update?  Maybe it already is, and I didn't know.
> > Of course some updates are important or need explanation or a headsup, and
> > then the maintainer should send one.
> 
> My opinion is that every time the package is modified there should be an
> announcement of the new package and what was changed.  Pointing to a
> ChangeLog may be fine but not announcing the change is just wrong.

I agree.  Maybe cygport's new (in testing) "announce" command simplifies
it enough to be not much of a burden?


Corinna

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