+1 on using the Changelog for the Release Notes. I think that's why we decided to make a Changelog, and I made an attempt at pulling down PR titles between 3.0 and 2.2, it's possible, but it's not easy to get right. The Changelog is more precise and human-readable anyway.
On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 2:16 PM Gelinas, Derek <[email protected]> wrote: > While prepping 3.0.0 for release, I noticed that our old method of pulling > up PRs for the release notes, changelog.pl, no longer functions > properly. It relies upon tagging we no longer use. So the way I see it, > we have two options: > > > 1. Some sort of script that pulls down the PRs since x date (the date > of the last release’s first RC) and then somehow strips the backports that > are in the last release as well as the PRs since the current release’s > first RC that were not backported. > 2. We use the changelog. For this release, we’ll want folks to check > the changelog to make sure nothing is missing of theirs. For future > releases, we continue the debate about how we build a proper changelog and > finalize something. Anything. > > I welcome everyone’s thoughts, and hope we can get this sorted out ASAP so > we can get 3.0.0 into the world. It’s the last step. > > Derek >
