+1 since we want to release often, it's better to have a lot of things
automated.

Additional proposition: automate the blog post and the twitter message that
announce the release.

2018-04-17 10:31 GMT+02:00 Vincent Massol <[email protected]>:

>
>
> > On 17 Apr 2018, at 10:28, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I’d like to modify the Release Notes app to autogenerate summaries for
> releases.
> >
> > The idea is to auto generate it based on the headings for user , admins
> and devs headers.
> >
> > For ex, taking the 10.2 release notes it would give:
> >
> > "For users: New default Color Theme, Figure Macro, Rename/Move
> protection and Minor changes do not generate notifications anymore. For
> admins: Default Notifications. For Developers: REST API now supports the
> use of minor revision for page changes, Translation fallback and Jobs
> improvements.”
>
> To give a comparions this is how we manually summarised it:
>
> "This release has a fresh look thanks to its new default color theme. A
> new Figure macro is available for content creators to add illustrations
> along with optional captions. Renaming and moving standard pages is now
> discouraged with a warning message that should prevent editors from
> breaking XWiki.”
>
> Ofc, the manual summary is nicer but I think the automated one could be
> enough for the user to know the topics and then check the release notes to
> understand better what’s in it.
>
> Context: This is an effort to automate further our release process and to
> win some more minutes.
>
> Thanks
> -Vincent
>
> >
> > It's not too bad IMO.
> >
> > WDYT?
> >
> > Thanks
> > -Vincent
> >
>
>


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Research & Development Engineer at XWiki SAS
Committer on the XWiki.org project

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