[rfc] split out developer-oriented news

Ben Finney ben+bazaar at benfinney.id.au
Tue Jun 14 03:47:13 UTC 2011


Martin Pool <mbp at canonical.com> writes:

> I was wondering if we should split out the developer-oriented news
> (API breaks, new recommendations etc) from the user release notes.

As a user reading those notes, I would be happy if the
developer-oriented news were merely in a separate section.

> It does mean there's one more thing people need to know to update, but
> I think that is pretty easy.

I think it's not worth the overhead (and potential risk) of having yet
more places for developers to update.


> Orthogonally to this, I wonder if the user guide and perhaps also the
> api change list would be better off just being grouped by major
> release, rather than each beta.

Another possibility there is to ensure that the news for any release
aggregates all news since the previous “users should download this”
release.

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