Lack of update information

[Denis Leroy]

Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Chris Weyl wrote:
> 
>>
>> It's hardly a "small additional cost", especially when looked at in
>> aggregate; this would be an additional non-automateable step required
>> for every update release that is of very questionable value/utility to
>> the vast majority of our users.  
> 
> I wouldn't say that. Currently it is of questionable value currently but 
> it would be much more valuable without just version bumping and more 
> careful thought put into justifying the need for updates. Every update 
> adds to a large cost in terms of build time, bandwidth, potential 
> regressions etc.

I find it unreasonable to ask of package maintainers to take the role of 
technical writers. Anything beyond copy/pasting will widen the gap 
between packages maintained by native english speakers and packages that 
aren't. ChangeLog typically contains a large number of fairly detailed 
technical changes that has no place in the RPM spec log or in bodhi. i 
think it's unreasonable to ask anything more that a comment such as 'bug 
fix release' or 'introduces some new features'.

-denis