[Phpmyadmin-devel] Improved release notes

[Mohamed Ashraf]

On Monday, September 9, 2013 at 11:27 AM, Michal Čihař wrote:
> Hi
>  
> Dne Wed, 28 Aug 2013 21:29:26 -0400
> Marc Delisle <marc at infomarc.info> napsal(a):
>  
> > Le 2013-08-28 17:49, Isaac Bennetch a écrit :
> > > At the meeting, someone (perhaps even me) suggested improved release
> > > notes. Yeah, we all know users should read ChangeLog for changes, but we
> > > also know many don't bother.
> > >  
> > > So I've taken it upon myself to draft a suggestion for the upcoming
> > > 4.0.6 release. It will require someone (yeah, probably me), to keep up
> > > with changes each release and I'm not sure whether that's going to be
> > > worth the effort we put in to it.
> > >  
> > > Anyway, the draft I've prepared is
> > > https://gist.github.com/ibennetch/ebe1879bcdf9b25212ca please let me
> > > know what you think
> > >  
> >  
> >  
> > Maybe we need to talk more about the goal of the release notes.
>  
> The biggest goal IMHO is to let users know about big changes more
> prominently. We can do this either by including in notification mail,
> adding it to wiki or by putting this into documentation.
>  
> Some examples:
>  
> https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.5/releases/
> http://docs.moodle.org/dev/Moodle_2.5.2_release_notes
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.22
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>  

I dont think there should be any bugfixes listed unless its a prominant bug. Same with small features. I believe it should be mostly breaking/major changes/fixes so that it is not the same as the changelog
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