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Status Future consideration
Categories Installation
Created by Guest
Created on Aug 4, 2023

Provide a means to download/access/read readme.txt files separately and outside the product version / fixpack installer workflow

Other ELM products offer a direct download of a version / fixpacks's readme.txt, for example:
https://jazz.net/downloads/requirements-management-doors-next/releases/7.0.2SR1?p=allDownloads

while D9 only offers zip files of the components, that contain no readme.txt and users wondering about a version's new features, fixed defected and innovations, cannot not easily and quickly check a small text file downloaded from the web.
We have release notes for each fixpack/version, but those do not really capture the scope of a readme.txt for each installer / component package.

Idea priority Medium
Needed By Not sure -- Just thought it was cool