I'm -1 on duplication of git log in a text file too. Unnecessary cruft.
On Dec 11, 2013 9:03 AM, "Joe Bowser" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Honestly, I would rather have the log have all the commits but still
> exist as opposed to not existing, which is what happened with 3.2.0.
> I think that having this RELEASENOTES.md file slows down the release
> process a LOT and there's very little gain except for people who can't
> read a git log.
>
> On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 2:49 PM, Steven Gill <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > It can be automated, but the output should be manually looked over to
> remove
> > commits that don't need to be in the release notes and blog posts
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 2:45 PM, Joe Bowser <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>
> >> OK, I'm filing a ticket because THIS should be automated.  This is way
> >> trickier than just tagging something.
> >>
> >> On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 2:31 PM, Steven Gill <[email protected]>
> >> wrote:
> >> > Hey Joe,
> >> >
> >> > Check out Documentation to Update section at
> >> > http://wiki.apache.org/cordova/CuttingReleases
> >> >
> >> > Pretty much
> >> >
> >> > git log --pretty=format:'* %s' --topo-order --no-merges
> >> > origin/RELEASE_BRANCH..master >> RELEASENOTES.md
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 2:15 PM, Joe Bowser <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> Hey
> >> >>
> >> >> How are the RELEASENOTES.md get authored? Where do the author counts
> >> >> come from?  I could do this by hand, but this doesn't look like they
> >> >> were.  Is this documented anywhere?
> >> >>
> >> >> Joe
> >> >>
> >
> >
>

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