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Re: does anyone care about package minor version bump announcements?
- From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon at yandex dot ru>
- To: Andrew Schulman <schulman dot andrew at epa dot gov>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2015 23:43:41 +0300
- Subject: Re: does anyone care about package minor version bump announcements?
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Greetings, Andrew Schulman!
> Lately I find myself feeling quite unmotivated about writing a mostly
> boilerplate announcement every time I upload a minor version bump of a
> package I maintain.
Then automate the announces! Let stupid hardware do stupid work.
It was designed to do exactly that!
> "stow has been updated from version 2.2.0 to 2.2.2. You can read the
> upstream changelog to see what changed. stow is blah blah blah"
> 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.
IMHO, the announcements are useful to track version history.
Unless there's some other comparable source, they are useful for archival
purposes.
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With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Thursday, November 19, 2015 23:41:24
Sorry for my terrible english...
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