[ovs-dev] NEWS vs. ChangeLog
Ben Pfaff
blp at nicira.com
Thu Aug 4 21:50:32 PDT 2011
I've noticed that many users seem to miss changes that we clearly state
in ChangeLog. Some of this is probably due to users not reading any
documentation ever, but I wonder whether some of it is because users
expect ChangeLog to be akin to a commit log, because that's what GNU
software puts in ChangeLog. Users don't read GNU ChangeLogs, because
they don't contain information useful to users.
GNU software puts what we have in ChangeLog in a file named NEWS. Some
users read it. Therefore: would you mind if we renamed ChangeLog to
NEWS?
Thanks,
Ben.
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