I think it would be an improvement, yes. // Ola
On Wed, 15 May 2019 at 15:08, Holger Levsen <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Christoph, > > I'm taking this to the lts list, as I think this deserves more peoples > thoughts: > > On Tue, May 14, 2019 at 04:56:43PM +0200, Christoph Berg wrote: > > As said elsewhere [...] I think part of the problem is > > that https://wiki.debian.org/LTS/Development is way too long. It > > shouldn't try to tell newcomers how to test packages etc, but just > > list the necessary steps required to a DLA. At the moment the "please > > also update webml" is hidden in a wall of text. And because the text > > is meant for newcomers, I'm not going to read it again for each > > upload. > > I agree that page is too long, and that a shorter checklist would be > very nice to have. And then it just occurred to me that the table of > content > on that page *is* that: > > Contents: > 3. Prepare security updates for LTS > > 1. Claim the issue in the security tracker (in dla-needed.txt) > 2. Build the update > 3. Test the update > 4. Upload the update > 5. Claim an DLA ID in DLA/list > 6. Announce the update > 7. Prepare an update for the website > > > Should we maybe put just this on a page called > https://wiki.debian.org/LTS/Development/TLDR > which then people can look at when they occasionally do a DLA? > > (and link to that TLDR page promininently from our other pages?) > > do you think this would be an improvement? Do you have other ideas? > > > (At the very least it could have a visible note at the top > > that says there was a recent change.) > > I'm not sure this will help that much... a.) people miss these notes and > then b.) how long ago is 'recent'? > > > -- > tschau, > Holger > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > holger@(debian|reproducible-builds|layer-acht).org > PGP fingerprint: B8BF 5413 7B09 D35C F026 FE9D 091A B856 069A AA1C > -- --- Inguza Technology AB --- MSc in Information Technology ---- | [email protected] [email protected] | | http://inguza.com/ Mobile: +46 (0)70-332 1551 | ---------------------------------------------------------------
