{"id":28292,"date":"2017-12-23T11:21:48","date_gmt":"2017-12-23T09:21:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=28292"},"modified":"2017-12-23T11:21:48","modified_gmt":"2017-12-23T09:21:48","slug":"the-strange-art-of-writing-release-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2017\/12\/23\/the-strange-art-of-writing-release-notes\/","title":{"rendered":"The Strange Art of Writing Release Notes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Software development is never just about writing code.\u00a0 Programming is only a small part of the software development work.\u00a0 The rest touches and intervenes with a whole lot of other areas – documentation, support, testing, marketing, and so on and so forth.\u00a0 Recently, Slashdot ran this story<\/a> on the art of writing release notes.\u00a0 There are a couple of links from the story to this article on IEEE<\/a> and this on TechCrunch<\/a>.<\/p>\n

These provide a lot to think about, at least for someone who wrote nearly 300 release notes<\/a> just this year alone (yeah, we had to catch up on historical releases).<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

Software development is never just about writing code.\u00a0 Programming is only a small part of the software development work.\u00a0 The rest touches and intervenes with a whole lot of other areas – documentation, support, testing, marketing, and so on and so forth.\u00a0 Recently, Slashdot ran this story on the art of writing release notes.\u00a0 There … Continue reading The Strange Art of Writing Release Notes<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"The Strange Art of Writing Release Notes #WebDev #marketing #PR #writing","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[62,1334],"tags":[1290,1330,1203],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-28292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","category-web-work","tag-marketing","tag-web-development","tag-writing"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10060,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2006\/04\/19\/daily-del-icio-us-bookmarks\/","url_meta":{"origin":28292,"position":0},"title":"Daily del.icio.us bookmarks","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"April 19, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user tvset on 2006-04-18 JotSpot Family Site [Beta] -- Excellent tool for bringing families closer together - family tree, blogs, photo albums, recipes, polls, etc. Tagged as: blog communications cool family photos tools web2.0 webservices wiki Open Loops: Boosting Productivity With a Timer Tagged as: howto\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "All"","block_context":{"text":"All","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":47591,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2020\/03\/12\/tips-for-implementing-a-software-release-process\/","url_meta":{"origin":28292,"position":1},"title":"Tips for Implementing a Software Release Process","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"March 12, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"I came across this nice article outlining some of the tips for implementing the software release process. 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