Re: [sane-devel] Upcoming changes for handling release notes

2021-12-31 Thread Wolfram Sang
> I don't think we should duplicate commit messages. Release notes are for > end users, commit messages are for other developers, so good release > note and good commit message are completely different. It makes sense to > write a release note only if the change impacts end users in a >

Re: [sane-devel] Upcoming changes for handling release notes

2021-12-30 Thread Povilas Kanapickas
Hi Ralph, On 12/29/21 11:57 PM, Ralph Little wrote: > Hi, > > On 2021-12-29 1:30 p.m., Povilas Kanapickas wrote: >> Hello, >> >> There were some discussions on how to make handling release notes easier >> in the past so that releases are not as difficult. Time has come to >> actually implement

Re: [sane-devel] Upcoming changes for handling release notes

2021-12-30 Thread Povilas Kanapickas
Hi Allan, On 12/30/21 1:21 AM, m. allan noah wrote: > I don't recall this conversation, where did it take place? I've proposed this twice during the last year: https://alioth-lists.debian.net/pipermail/sane-devel/2021-August/039081.html and also in a our private email chain between Olaf and the

Re: [sane-devel] Upcoming changes for handling release notes

2021-12-29 Thread m. allan noah
I don't recall this conversation, where did it take place? In the past, we had a Changelog that everyone modified for every merge, and it was largely a duplicate of their commit messages. So, we stopped doing it. Are you proposing a return to that type of duplication? allan On Wed, Dec 29, 2021

Re: [sane-devel] Upcoming changes for handling release notes

2021-12-29 Thread Ralph Little
Hi, On 2021-12-29 1:30 p.m., Povilas Kanapickas wrote: Hello, There were some discussions on how to make handling release notes easier in the past so that releases are not as difficult. Time has come to actually implement them. What changes? Developers will need to write a short one or two

[sane-devel] Upcoming changes for handling release notes

2021-12-29 Thread Povilas Kanapickas
Hello, There were some discussions on how to make handling release notes easier in the past so that releases are not as difficult. Time has come to actually implement them. What changes? Developers will need to write a short one or two sentence description to a new file in newsfragments