Hi, I've slightly modified the proposal according to Dirkjan's suggestions. I'll also concentrate more on getting viable information from the git rather than the build process. Thanks for the suggestions :)
Thanks Noah, It's a pleasure to be working with you people :) I'll look through the threads you've suggested and I'm currently working on a very naive implementation of the Git info grabber. Will keep all of you posted! :) On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 2:29 PM, Noah Slater <nsla...@apache.org> wrote: > This is very good to hear. Welcome aboard, Yashin. > > Please familiarise yourself with the previous threads we've had on this > topic: > > > http://markmail.org/search/?q=list%3Aorg.apache.couchdb.dev+%22%5BVOTE%5D+Git+Commit+Messages%22+order%3Adate-forward > > > http://markmail.org/search/?q=list%3Aorg.apache.couchdb.dev+%22%5BDISCUSS%5D+How+to+generate+our+release+notes%22+order%3Adate-forward > > > http://markmail.org/search/?q=list%3Aorg.apache.couchdb.dev+%22%5BDISCUSS%5D+Git+workflow%22+order%3Adate-forward > > Note that we do not have community consensus around how we want to > generate our release notes. So one of the important parts of this work will > be regularly sharing your progress with the list, so that we can discuss > things. > > I expect that if we adapt our Git workflow, we can probably get 80% of the > way there, and the other 20% will have to be done by a human each time. But > it would be good to see some concrete data! > > Very excited to see where you get with this. > > > > > On 20 July 2013 16:41, Dave Cottlehuber <d...@jsonified.com> wrote: > >> On 19 July 2013 16:29, Dirkjan Ochtman <dirk...@ochtman.nl> wrote: >> > On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 9:21 PM, Yashin Mehaboobe <yashin...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >> I've installed couchdb on a Linux VPS. I cloned the git repository and >> >> compiled it from source but I haven't created any databases yet. I've >> looked >> >> through the /share/doc/src rst files as well as the sphinx conf.py >> file. How >> >> I plan on implementing this is to use the following to gather the >> changes. >> >> -The rst files from /share/doc >> >> -The git commit messages obtained using git-python >> >> +1 >> >> > I'd personally go with dulwich or pygit2 for this rather than >> > git-python, since they're implemented as native libraries rather than >> > wrappers around shelling out to other processes. >> >> Let me know which one seems best & I'll confirm it can run on windows >> in our kludgy build chain, and at what version. >> >> A+ >> Dave >> > > > > -- > NS > -- - Yashin Mehaboobe
