[plt-scheme] Planet Announcement: A Suggestion

I also would opt for cumulative release notes. I wouldn't mind
putting them into info.ss. What's the field?

--Hans


Op 11/7/2007 schreef "Robby Findler" <robby at cs.uchicago.edu>:

>In my particular case, it is painful to put release notes into the
>info.ss file because I would have to write them as Scheme values.
>Also, my release notes are in one file that is cumulative, but that
>doesn't seem to be what PLaneT wants.
>
>The first seems easily fixable (put a pointer to a .txt file in
>info.ss). Not sure about the second.
>
>Robby
>
>On 7/10/07, Jacob Matthews <jacobm at cs.uchicago.edu> wrote:
>> I was pretty sure that the server already did include release notes,
>> so I went snooping. As far as I can tell, that email does indeed
>> include release notes if they're available, but since it gets sent out
>> as soon as a package author uploads a package, release notes are only
>> available to it if they appear in the package's info.ss upon
>> submission (the RSS feed, on the other hand, always has the most
>> recent information as of the time your RSS reader loads it because
>> it's generated dynamically from the database at that moment). And
>> looking at the info.ss files submitted, it looks like authors are
>> usually just opting not to fill that field in for some reason.
>>
>> So, a question for authors: why aren't you using the release-notes
>> field? Is there something that could change about the submission
>> process to make it easier / more in line with your workflow to include
>> them?
>>
>> -jacob
>>
>> On 7/10/07, Brent Fulgham <bfulg at pacbell.net> wrote:
>> > I saw the release notes when I visited the PLaneT website; I think
>> > that's great.
>> >
>> > I don't get the RSS feed (perhaps I should), and am basing my comments
>> > only on the e-mail notification.
>> >
>> > Since the website already has the release notes, perhaps the mailer
>> > agent could just include them in the e-mail.
>> >
>> > That would be very helpful!
>> >
>> > -Brent
>> >
>> > On Jul 10, 2007, at 3:18 AM, Noel Welsh wrote:
>> >
>> > > The author has an option to include release-notes in the info.ss file,
>> > > or later by modifying the entry on Planet.  I don't know the details
>> > > of what gets sent out in emails or via RSS.  The planet command line
>> > > tool even bugs you if you don't include release notes.
>> > >
>> > > N.
>> > >
>> > >> The recent set of updates to the hwiki package made me realize that
>> > >> it
>> > >> would be really useful if the announcements showed some kind of
>> > >> 'news'
>> > >> or comment section to let you know the reason for the update.
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