On Wed, Nov 27, 2019 at 12:38:00PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
On Wed, Nov 27, 2019 at 01:34:12PM +0100, Michal Privoznik wrote:On 11/27/19 1:19 PM, Peter Krempa wrote: > On Wed, Nov 27, 2019 at 12:08:01 +0000, Daniel Berrange wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 27, 2019 at 01:05:04PM +0100, Ján Tomko wrote: > > > On Wed, Nov 27, 2019 at 11:24:56AM +0100, Michal Privoznik wrote: > > > > Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mpriv...@redhat.com> > > > > --- > > > > docs/news.xml | 124 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > > > 1 file changed, 124 insertions(+) > > > > > > > > diff --git a/docs/news.xml b/docs/news.xml > > > > index 72c0edb317..b6782df136 100644 > > > > --- a/docs/news.xml > > > > +++ b/docs/news.xml > > > > @@ -81,8 +81,132 @@ > > > > </change> > > > > </section> > > > > <section title="Improvements"> > > > > > > [...] > > > > > > > + <change> > > > > + <summary> > > > > + More GLib integration > > > > + </summary> > > > > + <description> > > > > + More patches were merged that replace our internal functions with > > > > + GLib ones. Also some effort was invested in replacing gnulib modules > > > > + with GLib functions. > > > > + </description> > > > > + </change> > > > > + <change> > > > > + <summary> > > > > + Rewrite of Perl scripts into Python > > > > + </summary> > > > > + <description> > > > > + Libvirt used Perl scripts to check for coding style, generate some > > > > + code and things like that. To bring the number of languages used > > > > + down, these scripts were rewritten into Python. > > > > + </description> > > > > + </change> > > > > > > IIUC users are the target audience for the news. So far, these are just > > > internal refactors that mostly benefit developers. > > > > The target is also distro packagers, so they learn of things that > > might affect packaging design. > > Well in this case we didn't really remove anything yet so even distro > packagers may get saturated by these entries if we do it too > often without any real change. > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boy_Who_Cried_Wolf >I view news.xml not only as a way of communicating changes to users/packagers but also as a way of giving credit to developers of some important features. If we don't want to advertise these two, that's fine. But then we should also consider blockdev paragraph - it's a change that's transparent to users, isn't it? Should they care that we implemented it?
On its own it should be transparent, but the switch to blockdev did fix some actual user-visible bugs that depended on it. Peter should have the list.
Even though these changes are "internal" they can still be visible to users by virtue of having a high liklihood of introducing new bugs. I think it is worth highlight these kind of major internal refactorings for this reason.
Okay, can we put them into a new "Refactors" section instead? Jano
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