Bazaar 2.1.0 has gone gold

[Martin Pool]

On 17 February 2010 12:39, Ian Clatworthy <ian.clatworthy at canonical.com> wrote:
>> For now, I'm just including the summary of changes since bzr 2.1.0b2.
>> I'll probably include the full set of changes vs 2.0.4 in the final release.
>
> One side effect of releasing a stable release every 6 months is that the
> highlights of 6 months of effort are easily lost in the noise of 1227
> lines (~ 20 pages) of Release Notes.
>
> I'd like to suggest publishing a "What's New" document per major release
> to address that issue. I put one of these together for Bazaar Explorer
> yesterday afternoon covering what's changed since 0.8.x[1]. I *hope*
> most users upgrading will read it. In comparison, I suspect only a small
> percentage of those upgrading will bother reading the detailed Release
> Notes.
>
> Given 2.1 has gone gold, I guess it's too later to put a "What's New in
> Bazaar 2.1" document into the 2.1 branch itself. :-) If we agree to put
> the effort into writing such a document, putting the 2.1 one into trunk
> (initially) is fine IMO. As long as it exists *somewhere*, we can
> reference it (and the Explorer one please :-) ) in the final 2.1
> announcement.

I think we should have a single summary section under the main
release, describing what's new since the previous major release.

> Thoughts? A volunteer to write a first draft?

You? ;-)

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Martin <http://launchpad.net/~mbp/>