[OpenAFS-devel] Re: [OpenAFS] Release notes vs. ChangeLog

[Sam Hartman]

>>>>> "Jeff" == Jeff Blaine <jblaine@linus.mitre.org> writes:

    >> The closest there is is a NEWS file in the top level of the
    >> source. A volunteer to maintain such a thing would be very
    >> useful.

    Jeff> I can't really picture anybody who isn't knee deep in
    Jeff> OpenAFS development activity maintaining such a file.

    Jeff> My reason for raising this topic (I was 99% sure such a
    Jeff> thing didn't exist) is that the lack of a document like this
    Jeff> (let's dismiss the NEWS file for a second since it's not
    Jeff> been updated since July 11th and updating it was not an
    Jeff> action item for the 1.2.0 release before the tarballs went
    Jeff> up) ...

So, I thought we had consensus on openafs-devel that once the initial
news file went in, changes that were user visible needed to be
included by change authors.