[copyleft-next] copyleft-next 0.3.0 released

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Fri May 17 13:33:34 UTC 2013


> On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 07:35:33AM -0500, Tom Marble wrote:
>> On 05/16/2013 08:18 PM, Richard Fontana wrote:
>> > A summary of changes relative to the previous released verson shall be
>> > provided in due course.
>>
>> FLOSS best practices generally suggest updating the CHANGELOG
>> as you go -or- collecting highlights from commits since the
>> last release in the CHANGELOG [0]. In this way such a release
>> announcement comes with the answer to the question:
>> "What changed in this release?"
>
> I believe I started out with, or at least intending to maintain, a
> CHANGELOG, and I have the vaguest memory of someone (Dave Neary?)
> suggesting I use one. But I have been under the impression that
> CHANGELOGs are rarely used by non-antediluvian FLOSS projects.

Depends if you have a strict definition of "CHANGELOG". Most popular
projects actually publish a list of changes on release so that users
know what to expect. Whether it's in the traditional form of a CHANGELOG,
or something fancier and/or more readable, doesn't really matter.

Regards

Antoine.




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