Re: Re: Octave 3.8.1 Released

[Sergei Steshenko]

----- Original Message -----
> From: John W. Eaton <address@hidden>
> To: Sergei Steshenko <address@hidden>
> Cc: help-octave Octave <address@hidden>
> Sent: Sunday, March 9, 2014 6:41 AM
> Subject: Re: Re: Octave 3.8.1 Released
> 
> On 03/08/2014 01:04 AM, Sergei Steshenko wrote:
> 
>>  Why won't you post the list of changes between 3.8.0 and 3.8.1 in the 
> release note ?
> 
> Check out a copy of the sources from the mercurial archive and you can 
> get a list of URLs for the bugs that were fixed by doing something like
> 
>    hg log -b stable -r release-3-8-0:tip | sed -n 's,.*bug 
> #\([^)]*\).*,https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?\1,p' | sort -u
> 
> 
> jwe
>

Yes, John, I know how to write code in several programming languages.

Still, if I read a _text_ message written in _human_ language, I want to get 
the needed info without any program.

Working for several companies in the industry I had to prepare release notes 
explicitly stating what has changed and for what reason.

A lot of things in the human world is described by 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pogo_%28comic_strip%29#.22We_have_met_the_enemy_and_he_is_us..22
 - I mean a typical for FOSS zealots recommendation to read the code - the 
recommendation being issued to non-technical users. To run 'hg' is the same 
kind of recommendation.

And, by the way, 

hg log -b stable -r release-3-8-0:tip | sed -n 's,.*bug  
#\([^)]*\).*,https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?\1,p' | sort -u

was _not_ present in the release note. Which yet another time proves my point 
that the release note is useless other than the fact that 3.8.0 was replaced 
with 3.8.1.

Another issue - I do not use 'hg' revision/version control system and thus do 
not have it installed. So, in order to obtain a meaningful release info I first 
need to install a revision/version control system ?

Regards,
  Sergei.