[csw-maintainers] Need for additional documentation

[Maciej (Matchek) Blizinski]

No dia 12 de Agosto de 2010 17:58, Philip Brown <phil at bolthole.com> escreveu:
> You are suggesting that every package have a changelog from now on.
> However, if that were the case, that would accomplish the opposite of
> what the original poster was asking for: something to bring attention
> to IMPORTANT things, while ignoring the usual scrolling blah.
>
> If you have every package display a changelog, that just adds to "even
> more scrolling blah" to ignore, and does not solve the original issue.

True.  There needs to be the distinction between the changelog which
has the "for the record" flavor, and important messages which are of
the "you need to read it or you will end up pulling your hair" kind.

Implementation would have certain level of complexity: a central place
to hold all the messages and hold their read/unread state.
Preferably, with not much dependencies, which probably points us at
perl.