Release plans

[Francois Gouget]

On Wed, 12 May 2010, Alexandre Julliard wrote:

> Scott Ritchie <scott at open-vote.org> writes:
> 
> > On 05/09/2010 05:00 PM, Alexandre Julliard wrote:
> >> We definitely need a release changelog, yes.
> >
> > It seems to me what we really want is more than a changelog but a proper
> > release announcement.  I want a journalist who has hardly heard of Wine
> > to read the page and understand what we've done and why it's great.
> 
> Sure, that's the press release, we should have one too, but it's a
> different thing. A changelog would be a detailed description of changes
> that matter from a user point of view. It would list for instance new
> builtin programs, new configuration options, new behaviors, new system
> dependencies, backwards compatibility concerns, etc.

Isn't that more a release notes document?

So we'd have:
 * Press Release
   Announcing the new Wine to the world at large. Must be readable by 
   people who have never heard of Wine before.

 * Release notes
   A user friendly and high-level description what's new and what's 
   changed.

 * Changelog
   A detailed description of what's changed from a developper 
   perspective, that is the usual list of commit messages.



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