Deep Freeze coming for Fedora 7 (and cvs branching coming too)

Matthias Clasen mclasen at redhat.com
Wed May 16 11:53:29 UTC 2007


On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 12:32 +0300, Panu Matilainen wrote:

> 
> Sounds like a plan to me. Encouraging good changelog entries is, well, 
> good anyway - look at the quality of FC changelogs before and after the 
> daily rawhide-changes mails. In some cases (eg if the update requires user 
> actions etc) further commentary not really suitable to changelog notation 
> style might be needed but rpm changelog since last published package (or 
> even just the latest entry) would make a nice default. And one that 
> shouldn't be too troublesome for anybody since the message has already 
> been written once...
> 

The problem with reusing changelog entries for update notification is
that they are written for an entirely different audience:

changelogs -> developers
announcements -> users




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