On Sunday, December 9, 2018, Warner Losh <i...@bsdimp.com> wrote: > On Sun, Dec 9, 2018 at 1:09 PM Rodney W. Grimes < > free...@pdx.rh.cn85.dnsmgr.net> wrote: > > > > In message <201812090645.wb96jnso066...@repo.freebsd.org>, Cy Schubert > > > writes: > > > > Author: cy > > > > Date: Sun Dec 9 06:45:49 2018 > > > > New Revision: 341759 > > > > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/341759 > > > > > > > > Log: > > > > MFV r341618: > > > > > > > > Update wpa 2.6 --> 2.7. > > > > > > Relnotes: yes > > > > As an FYI, or maybe a new procedure, doing a reply to > > a commit message adding relnotes: yes does very little > > to insure that this commit gets refered to in release > > notes. > > > > What about we add RELNOTES.missed to the tree > > next to UPDATING, and when someone forgets to tag > > the Relnotes:yes into a commit you just follow up > > with a commit to that file, stating the svn revision > > which was missing the note and then we have a nice > > documented and clean way to extract the missing > > release note items, rather than trying to cull it > > from a thread in a mail list archive. > > > > The file would get truncated to 0 at appropriate > > times on various branches. > > > > How about just RELNOTES. You put the revision that is relevant and a quick > blurb. That way we don't have to look in two places. All release notes go > in here, no exceptions. You can retroactively tag them, or you can commit > this as part of commit.
> I don't really know SVN, but there wouldn't be a chicken egg probem during commit time? I mean you would really know the SVN id. So you could only add a specific revision in a different commit to RELEASE file. > > Have a blurb at the top that tells people what > order to add them in, and you'd be set. We'd then retire "relnotes: yes" in > the commit message. This would also allow 'helpers' to format the RELNOTES > file as we go rather than having to play 2 years of catch-up at major > branch times. > > Having it in the commit message just doesn't work, and this is one of many > reasons: Cy forgot. Other times I'll do something and it's only a month > later I realize it needs to be in the release notes after some issue has > come up.... Other times I put relnotes: yes in only to realize that's my > vanity talking, and nobody else cares. > > Warner > _______________________________________________ > svn-src-head@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-head > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-head-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" > _______________________________________________ svn-src-head@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-head To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-head-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"