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Re: Merging unrelated branches - release notes

From: Johan Corveleyn <jcorvel_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2013 16:59:40 +0200

On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 4:53 PM, C. Michael Pilato <cmpilato_at_collab.net> wrote:
> On 06/20/2013 09:24 AM, Johan Corveleyn wrote:
>> I think this is an important change (improvement) that deserves
>> mention in the release notes, rather than being burried in the huge
>> CHANGES list. WANdisco even put it in their announcement mail
>> "WANdisco offers Apache Subversion 1.8" (as one of five items they
>> considered important enough to mention explicitly).
>>
>> Just my 0.02 €
>
> Let's evaluate the change on its own merits, please, not on the basis of
> some company's marketing fluff. It's not uncommon in press releases to see
> even the littlest things billed as more world-changing than they really are,
> and I daresay WANdisco's Marketing folks aren't unique in this respect.

Agreed. I just added that marketing mention as a random data point to
illustrate that some folks consider this important (and it reminded me
of the feature myself actually). But I agree that it's significant
enough in its own right, making abstraction of any marketing ... (and
that that's the only thing that matters).

--
Johan
Received on 2013-06-20 17:00:31 CEST

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