On Sat, Apr 21, 2018 at 05:43:12PM -0400, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > At 2018-04-21T14:21:03+0100, Ralph Corderoy wrote: > > Some projects maintain a `pending' release notes so that significant > > fixes and changes get added to as they're implemented. This might avoid > > the need to keep some bugs non-closed until the release. Come release, > > the file's reviewed, some minor things with highsight ditched, and the > > commit log scanned for anything missing. > > Our commit discipline is already supposed to include updating the > ChangeLog, and, where appropriate, NEWS files as part of the commit > where the underlying change is made. Do you think that should suffice > for aiding the preparation of Release Notes?
I agree with the sentiment, but do the ~40 lines of NEWS entries since 1.22.3 really reflect the ~1900 lines of ChangeLog for the same period? I'm not really qualified to prepare updates there, but the ratio seems unusually low to me. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org]