[Telepathy] Explaining what's changed since the last draft when undrafting interfaces

Jonny Lamb jonny.lamb at collabora.co.uk
Sat Jan 15 13:30:39 PST 2011


On Sat, Jan 15, 10:41:45 +0000, Will Thompson wrote:
> It would be kinder to maintainers of non-core Telepathy components
> if the <tp:added/> for freshly-undrafted interfaces (and also the
> NEWS file, maybe?) included a quick summary of what's changed since
> the last draft. This is easier than rootling through `git log -p`
> for the relevant files.

The Debian policy upgrading checklist[0] is really useful when
updating packages to conform to a newer versions. Perhaps we should do
something like this, so maintainers can diff between versions (but the
diff is in English)?

0. http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/upgrading-checklist.txt

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Jonny Lamb, UK
jonny.lamb at collabora.co.uk


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