[isabelle-dev] NEWS / CONTRIBUTORS

[Brian Huffman]

On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 1:01 PM, Makarius <makarius at sketis.net> wrote:
> My impression is that NEWS and CONTRIBUTORS for the coming release is still
> somewhat incomplete.
>
> NEWS is not just for bad news -- infamous INCOMPATIBILITY entries -- but for
> any "user-relevant changes".  If things are not user-relevant then what is
> the point of doing them in the first place?

Certainly, any additions to HOL/Library are user-relevant and should
be considered NEWS-worthy.

A quick comparison of the directory listings for HOL/Library shows
that these files are new since Isabelle2011:

Code_Char_ord.thy
Cset_Monad.thy
Dlist_Cset.thy
Extended_Nat.thy
Extended_Real.thy
List_Cset.thy
Old_Recdef.thy
Product_Lattice.thy
Quotient_Set.thy
RBT_Mapping.thy
Saturated.thy
Wfrec.thy

A few of these have NEWS entries already (Extended_Nat, Old_Recdef,
Saturated, Wfrec). The authors of all the others (this includes me!)
should make sure to document each one in the NEWS file.

- Brian