Re: Software Release Notes

Subject: Re: Software Release Notes
From: Emoto <emoto1 -at- gmail -dot- com>
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2019 14:02:29 -0400

Of course, every company has their own choice of what they put. I
spent a long time documenting banking infrastructure software, and
would routinely have to include language about a particular bug,
whether it was in release notes or on a web site. I tended to use
wording like "an issue was corrected where a missing 'abc_file' could
allow approval of a payment without the required 'xyz' field being
filled." I would try to use language to make the bug description as
narrow as factually possible, so that the reader could correctly
understand the (generally) limited scope and not worry about whether
it happened in their installation or not.

Bob

On Mon, Jun 10, 2019 at 1:48 PM Lucy Draughn <ldraughn7 -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
>
> Hi there,
>
> I have a question about resolved issues in RNs - is it correct to use the
> following text in the Resolved Issues of a software release:
>
> bug issue [bug number] *This is now fixed.*
>
> Is it appropriate to use "This is now fixed" in the resolved section? My
> take is that the issue is in the Resolved sections so I would automatically
> know that the issue is fixed so why use "This is now fixed"?
>
> Thanks,
> Lucy
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