Draft: simple update description guidelines

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Wed Jan 28 22:43:03 UTC 2009


Orcan Ogetbil wrote:
> This would be my suggestion. It is not only less strict but also
> informative. I didn't know what the description field in the Bodhi
> interface does until 2 months after I started packaging stuff, because
> I don't use PackageKit very often. I don't think the wiki explains
> what that field is for. Correct me if I'm wrong.

Correct. This is among the things, I am trying to address with this 
proposal.

> * The description field in the bodhi interface is what the users will see on
> the PackageKit GUI regarding the significance of the update. This is not
> the same thing as the SPEC file changelog. It would be nice to include the
> release highlights in this field together with a URL to the upstream changelog,
> if there is any.

Merged into

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Markmc/Draft_package_update_guidelines

Thank you for your useful feedback.

Rahul




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