[MlMt] MailMate release notes

[Eric Sharakan]

Please don't get me wrong, I continue to be amazed by the incredible amount work Benny is able to put into MM; this is a far better mail client than others built by entire engineering teams at some large companies.  And I'm sure it took considerable effort for Benny to produce this outline of all the major changes.  I do plan to read through it all at some point.

But to me, the primary purpose of release notes is to tell me what changed since the last version I downloaded.  And ideally, this is true both for folks who download test versions as well as those who do not.

So, as Stephan also noted, I guess the big issue for me is not being able to see what changed between (say) r5851 and r5852.

Thanks.

-Eric

On 8 Dec 2021, at 8:38, Florian Heidenreich wrote:

> I actually like it and admire the amount of work that is put into the release notes. It truly shows how much Benny is caring. I also like the grouping into different aspects of the app, so that I can, e.g., skip the OpenPGP part (which I currently don't use).
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> From what I observe, the restructuring only takes place when a new official beta is released. For those who are not using the alpha builds, this would be the first changelog that is shown after like a year or so. I actually took the time to go through this and learned about aspects I missed during the alpha cycle.
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> I also think that any changes that are relevant for the alpha channel are still explicitly associated with a concrete release. IIRC, this was the case for the previous alpha.
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> Official releases are usually accompanied by a blog post, giving a birds-eye view on the changes of the new release. Admittedly, this will be also difficult to be kept short :)
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> But it's about time and I'm happy about the progress.
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> Kind regards
> — Florian
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> On 8 Dec 2021, at 14:12, Eric Sharakan wrote:
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>> Hi, as someone who tends to download the latest test release regularly, I'm finding the restructuring of release notes not at all helpful.  First, it's nigh impossible to learn what's changed in each test release. Second, the new outline format reminds me more of a functional spec than release notes.
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>> Finally, the length is simply unmanageable.  There's no way I can scroll through all that to see what's actually changed.  I know a lot has changed since the last public release, but I fear even users not on test releases are going to be overwhelmed by these release notes as written when the next public release occurs.
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>> Thanks.
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>> -Eric
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