Re: svn commit: r10268 - trunk

Michael <ectosphenoid-svn@yahoo.com> writes:
> > Yeah, I know there's a huge difference between FreeBSD's release
> > notes and Subversion's CHANGES file, but the process looked pretty
> > similar to me. You-all read my warning, right? :-)
>
> For what its worth, back when I was the release manager here I proposed
> pretty much the same thing. There has always been an odd resistance to
> the idea though which I never really figured out.

The issue isn't incremental vs all-at-once, it's single-author vs
multiple-authors.

We want a single author, so a given release's entry is consistent
about what sorts of things it includes and excludes, how it's
organized, etc. I think it's impossible to achieve this with multiple
authors. The fact that multiple authors sort of implies incremental
writing is orthogonal to the real issue.

If we have a single author, whether he does it incrementally or all at
once is really up to him.

-Karl

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Received on Fri Jul 16 21:39:10 2004