From: Neil Jerram <neil@ossau.uklinux.net>
To: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: NEWS entries -- user-visible?
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 20:19:34 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <874otyx2yh.fsf@arudy.ossau.uklinux.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ljnds1zo.fsf@gnu.org> ("Ludovic Courtès"'s message of "Sun\, 28 Jun 2009 01\:14\:51 +0200")
ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
> Hi!
>
> Neil Jerram <neil@ossau.uklinux.net> writes:
>
>> "In addition to its manual, the package should have a file named
>> @file{NEWS} which contains a list of user-visible changes worth
>> mentioning. ..."
>>
>> So I'd say that use of Gnulib (in general) should not be a NEWS item.
>> I think HACKING would be the right place to mention it - and it would
>> be just as accessible there (as in NEWS) to blurred users/developers.
>
> Sure, that's a possibility.
>
> (I think we don't disagree on what `NEWS' should contain, but on whether
> Gnulib qualifies as "user-visible".)
I would certainly agree that individual portability fixes should be in
NEWS. Is that what you have in mind?
Neil
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-29 19:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-14 18:32 NEWS entries -- user-visible? Andy Wingo
2009-06-14 19:43 ` Julian Graham
2009-06-14 22:41 ` Neil Jerram
2009-06-18 20:48 ` Ludovic Courtès
2009-06-19 17:47 ` Neil Jerram
2009-06-19 17:58 ` Ludovic Courtès
2009-06-19 18:08 ` Neil Jerram
2009-06-19 18:13 ` Ludovic Courtès
2009-06-27 22:05 ` Neil Jerram
2009-06-27 23:14 ` Ludovic Courtès
2009-06-29 19:19 ` Neil Jerram [this message]
2009-06-29 21:01 ` Ludovic Courtès
2009-06-14 20:39 ` Neil Jerram
2009-06-18 20:49 ` Ludovic Courtès
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