[ovs-dev] NEWS vs. ChangeLog

[Justin Pettit]

I suspect you may be over-thinking it, since I think most people just don't read documentation.  :)  However, if it saves even one question, it's worth it.  In any case, it is probably a more appropriate title for what it includes.

Thanks,

--Justin


On Aug 4, 2011, at 9:50 PM, Ben Pfaff wrote:

> 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.