On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 5:39 PM, Trent W. Buck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > David Roundy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 10:59:10AM +0000, Eric Kow wrote: >>> In my longwinded reply to your suggestion about not doing make_changelog, >>> I don't think it may have been clear that I actually supported the move... >> >> Oh my, I certainly hadn't gathered that you were considering getting rid >> of make_changelog! > > As I see it, the requirement is for something like what GNU calls the > "NEWS" file: a "history of user-visible changes". > > Currently AIUI this is auto-generated by blacklisting all the changes > that aren't directly visible to users, and just printing anything that's > left. This is useful because it means that you can't accidentally leave > a user-visible change unmentioned in NEWS, but the downside is that its > a lot of work to maintain the blacklist. > > Now, the way *I* would approach this problem would be to make a NEWS > file that's a list of bullet points. Just before each stable release > (or pre-release), the release manager goes through all the patches since > the last release, and manually writes a new section for the NEWS file. > A final release would replace the preceding pre-release sections.
Trent, to me it sounds like you just volunteered to handle this task in the future :) Jason _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users
