Hi, Marc Haber <mh+debian-packa...@zugschlus.de> wrote (Sat, 27 May 2023 21:00:25 +0200): > while talking to Paul, we have found out that it might be a good idea to > teach our users that the release notes DO get updated after the release, > something that even I didn't know after 20 years of Debian. > > Having the date of last update (of the English translation) prominently > visible, preferable on the first screen of release notes being > displayed, would be a good idea to share this information that way.
If we want this, I would propose something like the following: The shown date should say, when the last change in *English* has happened; changes to translations would not have to be taken into account here. Rationale: image the following situation, when *all* commits to release-notes would update this date: 1. we release trixie at the 01. Juli 2025; release-notes get updated on that day as well; the date says "Last updated at: 2025-07-01". CORRECT 2. nothing happens on the release-notes for 6 weeks. The date still says "Last updated at: 2025-07-01" (since no new build has happened). CORRECT 3. Now some translator changes something for his language. This would trigger a full rebuild of trixie's release-notes and therefore the date would now say "Last updated at: 2025-08-15". But nothing had changed in English at that time! SO NOT CORRECT! That's why I think, we should only take changes to English into account here. I have prepared a merge request for this: https://salsa.debian.org/ddp-team/release-notes/-/merge_requests/217 -- Holger Wansing <hwans...@mailbox.org> PGP-Fingerprint: 496A C6E8 1442 4B34 8508 3529 59F1 87CA 156E B076
