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{{w|Release notes}} are notes (or documents) released when software has been updated, to inform the user of any important changes to the software.  
 
{{w|Release notes}} are notes (or documents) released when software has been updated, to inform the user of any important changes to the software.  
  
In this comic, Randall and his friend are using the release notes as a form of chat service, instead of actual software change information. He says this is possible because the release notes are for {{w|Mobile application|app}}s that are no longer being maintained, so theoretically, there are not many people using the app.
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In this comic, Randall and his friend are using release notes of their {{w|Mobile application|app}}s as a form of chat service, instead of actual software change information. He says this is possible because the two apps are no longer being maintained, so theoretically, there are not many people using the app who would read the update / change notes.
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This chat service would not be in real time, so presumably, Randall and his friend would have to be constantly checking each other's apps to see if there are updates.
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On the "stars" app, the last "actual" notes says "Introduced bugs and degraded performance". This is not a typical change that a software developer would want to inform a user.
  
 
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Revision as of 16:41, 22 June 2018

Update Notes
v3.0.2: Hey, if anyone still using this app is headed to the beach, can you stop at 4th and River St and grab the sunscreen from my car? Trunk should be unlocked. Thanks!
Title text: v3.0.2: Hey, if anyone still using this app is headed to the beach, can you stop at 4th and River St and grab the sunscreen from my car? Trunk should be unlocked. Thanks!

Explanation

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Release notes are notes (or documents) released when software has been updated, to inform the user of any important changes to the software.

In this comic, Randall and his friend are using release notes of their apps as a form of chat service, instead of actual software change information. He says this is possible because the two apps are no longer being maintained, so theoretically, there are not many people using the app who would read the update / change notes.

This chat service would not be in real time, so presumably, Randall and his friend would have to be constantly checking each other's apps to see if there are updates.

On the "stars" app, the last "actual" notes says "Introduced bugs and degraded performance". This is not a typical change that a software developer would want to inform a user.

Transcript

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[There are two screens that show two different apps with different changelogs, showing a conversation between two people.]
The first app is an a symbol.
Update Notes
comment.png add a comment! ⋅ comment.png add a topic (use sparingly)! ⋅ Icons-mini-action refresh blue.gif refresh comments!

Discussion

108.162.216.46 16:42, 22 June 2018 (UTC)

I feel like this might be aimed at Google Hangouts. We started using it for our business several years ago, and every year it gets HARDER to use. 172.68.90.22 16:43, 22 June 2018 (UTC) SiliconWolf

I wonder if this was inspired by recent allegations about Paul Manafort using "foldering" for under-the-radar communication. 173.245.52.97 18:21, 22 June 2018 (UTC)

Thank goodness they have lots of battery, because if they were low I wouldn't be able to concentrate on the comic. 108.162.215.70 02:20, 23 June 2018 (UTC)

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"Trunk should be unlocked" is a software development reference.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trunk_(software) -- 162.158.134.214 (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)

I'm not so sure. That is an entirely different sense of the word Trunk (car trunk vs tree trunk), and it doesn't have any real connection to the topic of the comic. It's most likely just a coincidence. HisHighestMinion (talk) 20:52, 22 June 2018 (UTC)
On the contrary, if the trunk is unlocked, whoever picks up his sunscreen is able to reply on the app notes. 172.68.98.34 (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)

This makes me think of bad git commit names. As if they're updating the app and not bothering to actually describe what the update is, the modern git complaint.(Similar to https://xkcd.com/1296/). 162.158.93.111 00:18, 23 June 2018 (UTC)

Haaaaaaaaaaaands Zmatt (talk) 10:35, 25 June 2018 (UTC)

A stands for Apple while the 3 stars stand for Samsung. Samsung means "3 stars" in Korean. Just a bit of fun fact. -- Otterman (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)

Similarly, on Wikipedia or other similar wikis, people sometimes chat in edit summaries (i. e. update notes of wiki pages). ConscriptGlossary (talk) 02:20, 24 October 2024 (UTC)