On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 5:21 PM, Geoffrey Broadwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2008-06-02 at 20:28 -0700, chromatic via RT wrote: >> On Monday 02 June 2008 20:05:22 Bob Rogers wrote: >> >> > Agreed, but doesn't this info really belong in README? Then DEVELOPING >> > really only needs the middle paragraph, which is unchanging, and there >> > would be one less file to have to update when cutting a new release. >> > >> > Or is there some purpose in keeping this information out of the hands >> > of mere tarball-downloaders? >> >> DEVELOPING mostly exists so that people who check out interim releases run >> extra tests by default and people who download only official releases don't. >> >> There may be a better way to accomplish this. > > OK, how about this: > > 1. As with Bob's suggestion, DEVELOPING is reduced to just the > unchanging middle paragraph. It is then merely a flag -- removing that > function as well is better left to another RT. > > 2. The information about the next release moves to NEWS, where I think > it belongs. As soon as a release is cut and functionality starts to be > committed, we should start updating NEWS. A simple change to the format > of the header line makes it serve the duty previously done by the first > paragraph in DEVELOPING. > > See the attached patch. > > > -'f > >
+1 -- Will "Coke" Coleda
