Consolidate changes in KDE Gnome Yast etc

techwiz03 · July 7, 2010, 12:46am

It occurs to me that something that might help is a sticky that highlights changes made from one version to another kinda like

KDE 4.0.x → 4.1.x
. Removed: …<package(s)>
. Updated …<package(s)>
. Added …<package(s)>
KDE 4.1.x → 4.2.x

and so on

Intension is not intended to get bogged down with comments and gab but to only have a place where those interested in what effect a package might have on their system may be.

DenverD · July 7, 2010, 10:27am

(i’ve not looked, but i’d guess that that) kind of info is readily
available on kde.org or in downloaded docs in
/usr/share/doc/kde/[something] (in release notes, change logs or
whatever)…

and, if not it would be a pretty big task to manually develop, track
and update the wiki page…

techwiz03 · July 7, 2010, 11:57am

Ye of little faith! Let’s take it a bit further before you shoot the idea in the foot (to everything there is an answer somewhere), The wiki could be a series of links to the info so as not to duplicate and force redundant maintenance.

As you start a journey to find out what has changed and evaluate whether or not it will warrant upgrading, you have 1000’s of pages to read or skim to try and find the answers.
[ol][li]Kernel changes[ul][]Multiple versions[]Multiple archectecture[]Multiple change logs[/ul][/li][li]KDE changes[ul][]Multiple versions[]Multiple packages (not all have been changed have to skim thru changes logs on each package)[/ul][/li][li]Gnome changes [LIST}Multiple versions[]Multiple packages (not all have been changed have to skim thru multiple change logs on each package)[/ol][/li][li]openSUSE changes[ul][]Multiple versions[]Multiple architectures[]Multiple baseline packages ‘CLI’ without benefit of what has changed[]Multiple GUI packages again with only vague descriptions of what has changed[/ul][/LIST][/li]
While it is true they tell you about some stuff that is changed such as new ati driver, new nvidea driver or refreshed YAST look but when you install the upgrade, quite often you find things that are different or changed in how they work that is not mentioned.

DenverD · July 7, 2010, 12:36pm

techwiz03 wrote:
> Let’s take it a bit further before you shoot the idea in the foot

it wasn’t my intention to shoot the idea in the foot, and i didn’t say
it wasn’t a GOOD idea…

but, no matter how good an idea it is there still must be someone
willing to develop and update the page you propose…

i nominate you.
(your credentials here allow you to create/edit the wiki also…you
don’t even have to join the Wiki Team
<http://en.opensuse.org/Teams#Wiki_Team> first…but, they ARE looking
for more contributors)