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Re: Web-Site: Linking to CHANGES file for different releases

From: Karl Heinz Marbaise <khmarbaise_at_gmx.de>
Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2010 19:44:32 +0100

sorry...not answered to the list.

> Hi Michael,
>
>
>> Yeah, the great thing about always pointing at trunk is that it
>> contains all
>> the change records, so if you want to see what happened in other
>> releases,
>> the info is readily available.
>>
>> The bad thing is that it contains all the change records, so if you don't
>> want to see what happened in other releases, you gotta dig some for the
>> release you do care about.
> Yes...that's a point...
>>
>> But here's my case for *not* linking against the tagged CHANGES
>> items: we
>> only push out new release notes for big X.Y.0 releases, yet folks
>> refer to
>> them as an explanation of what they are getting with any installation of
>> Subversion from the X.Y lineage. It would be weird to download
>> Subversion
>> 1.6.9, read the 1.6 release notes, and then get pointed to a quite-stale
>> 1.6.0 CHANGES list. So if we're going to do anything around these
>> parts, we
>> should be pointing to the CHANGES files as they exist in the release
>> *branches* (e.g. branches/1.6.x/CHANGES).
> That's a better solution for this...
>
> I would vote for that ...
>
> +1 from me...
>
>
> Kind regards
> Karl Heinz Marbaise

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