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Comment by dickeytk | Hacker News Reader

that's a really good suggestion. As someone that writes a lot of changelogs, they would really benefit from including _why_ and not just _what_.

I do think, however, that users greatly underestimate how much time it takes to write up a good changelog. Even one that is as simple as this.

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Yeh, that's it in a nutshell, unfortunately. I wish I had more time to write great changelogs for Homebrew but I don't :(

Not for me to tell you how to prioritize your time, of course, but I'll just say in my experience programmers tend to vastly over-index on the importance of stuff like crushing code and under-index on the importance of stuff like communicating w/ the community. Non-tech tasks are still hugely important.

Cheers, and thanks for your work on homebrew. It really is a great tool.

Thanks for the kind words.

For what it's worth, I really do value this stuff which is why we have release notes at all, a Discourse forum, etc. most of which I've setup and run :)

I'd rather you write the code. Keep up the good work.

Hopefully these changes will allow you more time to focus on adding value to the vast majority of users. If a small subset of folks need the marginal functionality, it should be up to them to step up to the plate and make it happen.

Thanks for the kind words.

> Hopefully these changes will allow you more time to focus on adding value to the vast majority of users. If a small subset of folks need the marginal functionality, it should be up to them to step up to the plate and make it happen.

100% agree.

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