On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 12:17 PM, Martyn Russell <[email protected]> wrote: > Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: >> >> Hi, > > Hi, > >> Is it really necessary to have bugzilla numbers and details in the >> NEWS file? I find it to be noisy and wonder if people actually read >> those. > > The NEWS file can have whatever you want in it. In my other projects, I tend > to put the things that have changed. This includes: > > - Bugs > - Translations > - Manual translations > - Features
I feel that features and changes are the only things that should be documented in there. > People will read bugs if they know of a bug they have and want to see if it > was fixed. Of course, some people might just be interested. I feel that if people were interested in specific bugs, they'd actually subscribe to them. > This is totally up to the maintainer(s). I for one, like to see everything > that changed, otherwise the NEWS is a bit fuzzy, it only includes some of > what changed. I feel that NEWS should have your newsworthy kind of stuff, and that 'everything' should go to the Changelog. -- my place on the web: floss-and-misc.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ tracker-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/tracker-list
