[maemo-developers] Now *that*'s what I call a changelog...

[From: Eero Tamminen]

Hi,

ext Quim Gil wrote:
[...]
> As an exercise, let me check this release notes against the factors I
> mentioned in my previous email on the changelog debate:
> 
> NEW FEATURES vs FIXED BUGS
> This is all about bugfixes. The developers got directly all the bugs
> submitted in the public bugzilla and worked on them. Good.
> 
> END USER ORIENTED vs DEVELOPER ORIENTED
> The browser itself is oriented to end users and this is why it gets so
> much attention. However we are still in development mode and this is why
> this specific release could get into technical details. Note that the
> same release notes would not be ready for pure tablet users.
> 
> INTERNAL vs EXTERNAL
> The browser version under development was released to get external
> feedback in addition to the internal testing. I don't know if the
> browser team has detailed bugfixes found only internally. It's their
> choice. They clearly are reporting the fixes of public bugs. Good.
> 
> DISTRIBUTION vs PACKAGES
> The release notes affect just one application and just one or a small
> set of packages. They can concentrate in all these details. Good.
> 
> OPEN SOURCE vs PROPRIETARY
> It's an open source component and the release notes are done in the
> typical open source way. Good.
> 
> NOKIA DEVELOPED vs THIRD PARTY
> Developed by Nokia, we had most control (and responsibility) over the
> bugfixes and therefore over the release notes. I don't know whether any
> fix in the Mozilla engine development upstream had an influence in this
> update. Good.
> 
> If you look at this profile you will see that there are not many other
> applications matching the same criteria. The RTCom update under
> development and the Modest client would be the most comparable
> examples. 

As would be all the Open Source applications belonging to the Hildon
framework (desktop, control panel, application manager...).


	- Eero