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Month: January 2014

Placing the Release Notes on the Desktop

From: "Darrell Anderson" <darrella@...>
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 12:26:55 -0600
All,

The eventual release of R14 will mark a turning point in Trinity 
history. The R14 release is significant because of the many class 
and branding renaming changes. While we have drafted a README 
document to explain such changes, we have no mechanism for users to 
read the document.

I would like to see us patch the sources such that a Release Notes 
document is always placed on the user's desktop when updating to a 
new release. That practice would continue with maintenance releases 
too.

While the drafted README for R14.0.0 lists many changes, subsequent 
copies would only list bug and security fixes in that release and 
will not be large documents.

Of course, the user is free to delete the document from the desktop 
at any time. The document reappears on the desktop only with new 
releases.

We would need to update the document before officially releasing 
each subsequent release, but this simple mechanism would ensure 
users are updated with changes.

Thoughts?

Darrell