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Re: Lilypond code/feature freeze for 2.12
From: |
Valentin Villenave |
Subject: |
Re: Lilypond code/feature freeze for 2.12 |
Date: |
Sun, 21 Sep 2008 17:09:05 +0200 |
2008/9/21 Graham Percival <address@hidden>:
> Let me put it this way: when you read an announcement of a new
> release in some other software (say, audacity or freeciv), how
> much do you want to read? My guess is less than a page of text.
> The current release is two pages. It definitely shouldn't be
> longer.
It didn't seem so long when I first read it. In fact, I like to read
changelogs. A good (IMO) example is the recent announcement for VLC
media player:
http://wiki.videolan.org/What_is_cool_in_0.9/
> WTM does "X new features" mean? I mean, is vertical collision
> avoidance one "feature", and pointAndClick{On/Off} another
> "feature"? This is a completely vacuous phrase.
Yes, that what's cool about it :-)
If you used to read distributions release announcements like I do,
you'd see what I mean.
> It might be good to prepare a "STFU newb and read the News" page
> on the wiki, though. That way you can just paste the link to
> there, instead of wasting time writing paragraphs and paragraphs
> of helpful text for each frequently asked question like you
> normally do.
Yes, John and I are planning to work on the Wiki soon (even if the
word "soon" has lost most of its meaning to me lately).
> Sounds good. John, send it to Valentin; Valentin, send it to
> Trevor. I no longer have the actual release-notes.txt file, so
> make sure you don't lose your copy.
OK.
Cheers,
Valentin
- Lilypond code/feature freeze for 2.12, Han-Wen Nienhuys, 2008/09/20
- Re: Lilypond code/feature freeze for 2.12, Graham Percival, 2008/09/20
- Re: Lilypond code/feature freeze for 2.12, Valentin Villenave, 2008/09/21
- Re: Lilypond code/feature freeze for 2.12, Graham Percival, 2008/09/21
- Re: Lilypond code/feature freeze for 2.12,
Valentin Villenave <=
- Re: Lilypond code/feature freeze for 2.12, Graham Percival, 2008/09/22
- Re: Lilypond code/feature freeze for 2.12, Valentin Villenave, 2008/09/22
- Re: Lilypond code/feature freeze for 2.12, Trevor Daniels, 2008/09/22
- Re: Lilypond code/feature freeze for 2.12, Han-Wen Nienhuys, 2008/09/22
- Re: Lilypond code/feature freeze for 2.12, Trevor Daniels, 2008/09/22
- Re: Lilypond code/feature freeze for 2.12, Han-Wen Nienhuys, 2008/09/22
- Re: Lilypond code/feature freeze for 2.12, Trevor Daniels, 2008/09/22
- Re: Lilypond code/feature freeze for 2.12, Reinhold Kainhofer, 2008/09/22
- Re: Lilypond code/feature freeze for 2.12, Carl D. Sorensen, 2008/09/22
- Release text (was Re: Lilypond code/feature freeze for 2.12), Trevor Daniels, 2008/09/22