[maemo-developers] QA process = bug fixing disincentive?

[From: Jeremiah Foster]

On Nov 11, 2009, at 15:29, Marius Vollmer wrote:

>> 
>> My suggestion is to either use the Debian changelog, or if this sounds
>> too "technical" for the end user, agree on some way to mark
>> "user-relevant" changes in the Debian changelog (by using "USER:" as a
>> prefix for a one-line summary or by having a convention of having the
>> first entry in the Debian changelog be a user-friendly summary of all
>> changes) and then parse the changelog and display all user-relevant
>> changes in the AppMgr.
> 
> Yes, we pretty much have to have a full list of changes and the
> Application manager then can display the relevant ones.  The
> apt-listchanges program does this for Debian.

This seems like a useful addition - even perhaps something that could be useful upstream. 

Jeremiah