Josip Rodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 08:39:50AM -0700, Brian Nelson wrote: >> > Perhaps a separate, concise message to debian-devel-announce? >> >> I doubt it would help. I see changelog abuse as an act of laziness, not >> ignorance. Common sense says that you should be listing changes in the >> changelog. It's not like there aren't plenty examples of changelogs, as >> well as discussions on IRC and mailing lists, and a lengthy dissertation >> in the Developer's Reference. >> >> If a few particular maintainers are going to ignore all of the examples >> of proper changelog use, why should a message to debian-devel-announce >> help? They'll just ignore that too. > > Actually, they might not. The developers' reference section on that is > fairly new, so not all people may have seen it. Reminding them via -d-a > wouldn't quite be as effective as shoving it down their throats :) but > I'm sure it would help a lot of people.
Hmm. Maybe for each major release of the developers' reference, an announcement on d-d-a should be made that recites the new additions. Currently, it's not really obvious what's been added to it, and many developers probably ignore it for months or years at a time. -- Poems... always a sign of pretentious inner turmoil.
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