user-oriented news

[Robert Collins]

On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 7:03 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen at xemacs.org> wrote:
> Robert Collins writes:
>
>  > While I take your point about communicating effectively with our
>  > users, this isn't really a dichotomy - we can describe both the
>  > external behaviour and what we changed; NEWS is rather more accessible
>  > and pithy for developers and plugin developers catching up on things.
>
> What's wrong with "bzr log -r $REVISION_SPECIFIED_IN_ENTRY"?
> That way you don't have to repeat the description of what was changed
> in several places.

A commit to the mainline is often the work of many individual commits;
the overall arc of work is what is recorded in NEWS.

-Rob