On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 12:01:40PM -0400, Lukas Geyer wrote: > Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I really enjoy reading a well-written changelog (and I'm subscribed to > > d-d-changes so I tend to read them all), so I'm interested in improving > > the quality of ones that aren't quite up-to-par. If there's a consensus > > that it's futile or pointless effort, I'll readily stop. > > What about just contacting the maintainer in private? Why does this > have to be on -devel? I think it is nice to have a meaningful > changelog, but the human race and Debian will survive some > not-quite-up-to-par changelog entries. If this was a separate bug, I > would consider it "minor", and thus not worth Cc-ing to -devel.
The idea behind discussing problems in public, even when they are not going to be fixed, is to prevent the same problems from happening in the future. -- - mdz
