> On Dec 7, 2015, at 4:21 PM, joe via swift-dev <swift-dev@swift.org> wrote: > > Nm my question about the duplicated content, I just noticed after starting to > look into this that some of the notes in the Xcode release notes are the same > as in the CHANGELOG. I'll get started on adding the missing content.
Sounds great, thanks Joe. Someone contributed a slightly modified version of the Xcode release notes, which helped round them out, but lots of details (and resolution on when things went in) are missing. -Chris > >> On Dec 7, 2015, at 4:21 PM, joe via swift-dev <swift-dev@swift.org> wrote: >> >> Now that the CHANGELOG.md file is in place, I can take a look at the >> "archeology exercise" bit. The updates to the Xcode release notes for >> official releases are online >> (https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/releasenotes/DeveloperTools/RN-Xcode/Chapters/Introduction.html), >> but Radek, if you have the beta release notes handy, those may be useful in >> creating more granular updates to the changelog. >> >> It won't be too difficult to pull out the sections relevant to Swift from >> the Xcode release notes, but is that what we want in the CHANGELOG? I want >> to make sure it's ok to have the duplicated content added, or if the purpose >> of the CHANGELOG might be somewhat different than Xcode's release notes (at >> least the sections pertaining the Swift language itself). >> >>> On Dec 6, 2015, at 5:53 AM, Radosław Pietruszewski via swift-dev >>> <swift-dev@swift.org> wrote: >>> >>> If someone wants to tackle the “archeology exercise”, those might help :) >>> >>> - SwiftInFlux has Xcode 6.1/Swift 1.1 history pretty well preserved: >>> https://github.com/ksm/SwiftInFlux#changed-in-xcode-611 (unfortunately the >>> project died down before Swift 2 came around) >>> - I have a copy of almost all Xcode 6—Xcode 7.1 Release Notes I can share >>> privately on request >>> >>> — Radek >>> >>>> We have this document, which captures some of the evolution of swift over >>>> time in the form of release notes: >>>> >>>> https://github.com/apple/swift/blob/master/utils/buildbot-release-notes.txt >>>> >>>> >>>> We’ve started updating it for behavior changes in Swift 2.2, and think >>>> that something like it is important so that when we do a release, we have >>>> a way to make sure that sometime important isn’t missed. Users like to >>>> know what’s new :-) >>>> >>>> That said, it has two pretty serious problems: >>>> - It is missing content on what happened between Oct 2014 and the start of >>>> the Swift 2.2 cycle. >>>> - It is a weird little text file off in an undiscoverable place in the >>>> source tree. >>>> >>>> Fixing the former problem is a bit of an archeology exercise, the later >>>> problem is more of a content/design problem. Is anyone interested in >>>> tackling either of these? >>>> >>>> -Chris >>>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> swift-dev mailing list >>> swift-dev@swift.org >>> https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-dev >> >> _______________________________________________ >> swift-dev mailing list >> swift-dev@swift.org >> https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-dev > > _______________________________________________ > swift-dev mailing list > swift-dev@swift.org > https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-dev _______________________________________________ swift-dev mailing list swift-dev@swift.org https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-dev
