[Dev] HISTORY.txt

[Pieter Hartsook]

I agree with the forking approach. Maintaining two lists with whatever
cross-posting is probably the best for the target readers.

Pieter


On Tue, 9 Nov 2004 15:39:12 -0800, Ted Leung <twl at osafoundation.org> wrote:
> In the long run, we'll probably need a pair of history/changelog
> documents.  One for end users detailing end user functionality
> improvements/changes, and one for developers that describes changes
> relevant to their interests.
> 
> Ted
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> On Nov 9, 2004, at 2:27 PM, Chih-Chao Lam wrote:
> 
> > I don't think end users are going to care too much about history.txt
> > directly. At the least, we'll need to synthesize the info and present
> > it a more user friendly manner.
> >
> > chao
> >
> > On Nov 9, 2004, at 2:22 PM, Ducky Sherwood wrote:
> >
> >> At Heikki's request, I've started maintaining HISTORY.txt.  Neither
> >> of us are really sure who HISTORY.txt's customers are -- end users or
> >> developers? -- so it's unclear how much detail to put in.
> >>
> >> For example, in this release, we didn't put in that Chandler now
> >> always runs RefCounted so pinning isn't required.  That's clearly an
> >> implementation detail, something that end-users wouldn't care about.
> >> However, if we had a third-party parcel developer who was pinning
> >> code,  s/he might want to know about that.
> >>
> >> So: what do we collectively want from HISTORY.txt?
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