Re: [TCLCORE] Release information and fossil gripes (was Re: Tcl/Tk 8.6.3 RC Updates)

2014-10-29 19:27 GMT+01:00 Donald G Porter <dona...@nist.gov>:
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> It's hard to get motivated to create more new sources of information> when folks demonstrably don't read the ones you already offer.  (Sorry> to whine and gripe).

I understand that and the difficulty to provide better information.
I did the exercise to search how to submit a bug for python[*].
And starting from www.python.org is not simple either.
I find it even simpler from www.tcl.tk, which redirect to core.tcl.tk
in "core development" page.
If then we could have core.tcl.tk like https://docs.python.org/devguide/
core.tcl.tk start with related sites! looks like an incitation to go away!
Also it needs mentioning this wiki page http://wiki.tcl.tk/28126.

[*] without using google, "tcl bug" here returns other results, so
it's not fair!

>> if I want to upgrade, say, from 8.5.15 to 8.5.16, I have no simple way>> to check if it's safe or not, according to newly discovered bug.>> Ok, we rarely have severe bug from release to release, but I find>> annoying to let people upgrade without being advertised of the new>> problem found.>>> Ok, that's a good observation, and something a bit different.

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> I'm open to any number of reasonable suggestions that don't translate> into a large new pile of tasks for me to tend to.

Something like putting a link to a custom report of
severe-bugs-discovered-on-latest-release
near the download link in www.tcl.tk would be fine.
Also, ActiveTcl, which I think is the main download site for Tcl,
should mention that.

Eric

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