I'll write them for Android if it's annoying for you. I really don't think it's feasible for one person to make sense of all commit messages across all platforms.
On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 10:02 AM, Joe Bowser <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 6:53 AM, Andrew Grieve <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Release notes: > > - Keep people engaged in reading about Cordova > > - Make people want the new thing > > > > I think the best way to communicate release notes is to do it within the > > release blog posts. > > > > The release blog post is much much easier to write if there's already a > > list of release notes to draw from. > > > > I don't know why the person writing the blog post can't go off the > commit logs. This shouldn't be tied to the release, and I feel that > this is unnecessary cruft that only serves a marketing purpose, and > not a technical one. Our average release has less than 50 commits, I > don't really think it's appropriate to curate these commits, > especially since I have a different opinion about which commits are > important to curate than other people. I really wish this was never > added to our release process, and I really would like to see this file > go away. > > > > > > > > On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 7:35 PM, Brian LeRoux <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> 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 > >> > >> >> > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > >> >
