Bug 600249
Summary: | Please consider explicitly documenting end of life applications (and deprecate before removing) | ||
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Product: | [Fedora] Fedora Documentation | Reporter: | Andrew Jones <andrew.jones11235> |
Component: | release-notes | Assignee: | John J. McDonough <wb8rcr> |
Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | Karsten Wade <kwade> |
Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | low | ||
Version: | devel | CC: | metherid, stickster, wb8rcr |
Target Milestone: | --- | ||
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Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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Last Closed: | 2011-10-11 15:05:19 UTC | Type: | --- |
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oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
Andrew Jones
2010-06-04 09:42:55 UTC
The problem is the Release Notes captures significant changes in software and not changes in categories of software. So when a default program for a category changes we sometimes don't capture migration or what happened to the previous default. In essence, we are only capturing half of the changes, the what, and not the 'what now'. I think we need to interface better with RELENG to better grab these changes. Rahul championed the inclusion of Deja Dup, so perhaps he has some insight into where we can get appropriate documentation for this particular case. The reporter has an excellent point, which is that in the future we need to consider migration docs for any default applications that change. Actually Fedora up until 13 did not have any standard graphical backup utility at all. In cases where we have replaced one program with another, we have always taken care to note it. In general, we try to catch obsoleted packages, but the documentation team rarely has any insight into these unless developers specifically update the wiki. Since obsoleted packages are often orphaned, there is rarely a developer to provide this information at release time. |