RE: [gentoo-dev] changelogs...

[Rex Young <RYoung@kakuinc.com>]

>unfotunately this is oftem the case. Right now as I write on my machine
>if I execute the following.you will see that only the vim 
>updates have a
>proper release notes right on the front page. Orbit and gnome-vfs point
>directly to gnome.org where I havent been able to find any 
>release note.
>(I looked for release notes of ORBit for like more than an 
>hour.... then
>I posted the message). fileroller website hasnt even announced any such
>release... only the tarballs available on on gnome (boy is gentoo
>cutting edge :) ). gaim also doesnt provide any realease note 
>on the web
>site. I suppose all these packages provide release notes in the source
>tarball... but thats not very convenient.. it defeats some of the
>purpose of the gentoo system to download the file and expand just to
>read the release note.


I would like to echo this.  More than twice, I've looked to a web page
to learn a little more about a package only to find scant information,
or worse, a dead link.

I like this idea so much, that I'll offer to get it rolling.  If it should
be decided that this will be done, I'm sure that there will be quite a
number
of previously released packages which would like a longer description added
to them.  I'm only an engineer, not a software developer, but this is
something
I think I can handle.

-rex

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