Re: please review my template
On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 11:05:20PM +0100, Nicolas Boullis wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 07:16:52PM +0000, MJ Ray wrote:
> > Dominic Hargreaves <dom@earth.li> wrote:
> > > I would use
> > > "deleted locally"
> > > "deleted remotely"
> >
> > I would use those. The hyphenated ones taste jargony.
>
> OK. Should I also do this for the short descripton, as the attached
> modified tamplate?
Yes. Well spotted :)
> > +1 to the s/used to //
>
> OK. With the same reasonning, I also rephrased the next sentence to the
> present tense.
>
>
> > Otherwise seems fine.
>
> There is also this NEWS.Debian vs debconf note question...
> My reasonning for a debconf note was that:
> 1) there is a danger of data loss; a NEWS.Debian file is not vivible
> enough;
> 2) debconf offers an infrastructure for translations that NEWS.Debian
> lacks.
>
> But I will happily listen to arguments for NEWS.Debian...
I think this is probably something to be discussed at a high level - ie
I always thought that NEWS items should be displayed to users by default
whenever possible. Personally I use apt-listchanges, but I guess most
people don't...
> Template: isync/upgrade_1.0
> Type: note
> _Description: isync won't refetch messages deleted locally
> Versions of isync older than 1.0 refetch messages that were locally
> deleted. Although it is a bug, some people may be using it as a
> feature. Since 1.0, messages that are deleted locally will be deleted
> remotely as well. People expecting the old buggy behavior will
> experience data loss.
Looks good to me.
Cheers,
Dominic.
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