CMSP 31. Version changes
31. Version changes Proposal: Description of changes in that versions and tags for changes. Useful for submission to Freshmeat and for quick review of changes. --Chorny 18:51, 30 September 2009 (BST)
Re: CMSP 31. Version changes
Hans Dieter Pearcey wrote: Excerpts from David Golden's message of Fri Oct 09 07:55:36 -0400 2009: 31. Version changes Proposal: Description of changes in that versions and tags for changes. Useful for submission to Freshmeat and for quick review of changes. --Chorny 18:51, 30 September 2009 (BST) This seems like getting people to agree on a machine-readable changelog format, which appears only slightly more likely than world peace. Am I misreading it? Apart from my usual complaint about where does the information come from?, this seems possible enough if you leave most of it up to the author: Add a sequence that has a version, an *optional* release date, and (a possibly optional) free-form field of changes. Personally, I'd like to go one step further and make the free form field really an array of free-form fields for individual changes. That offers the opportunity for opposed authors to use a single one of them as a free-form field for all changes. Steffen
Re: CMSP 31. Version changes
* Dieter This seems like getting people to agree on a machine-readable changelog format, which appears only slightly more likely than world peace. Am I misreading it? * Graham Barr gb...@pobox.com [2009-10-09T10:36:48] yeah. I can see the benefit of machine readable changelogs. I am just not sure that META is the right place for it. I opposed the proposal for both the reasons above. -- rjbs
Re: CMSP 31. Version changes
On Oct 9, 2009, at 8:03 AM, Ricardo Signes wrote: * Dieter This seems like getting people to agree on a machine-readable changelog format, which appears only slightly more likely than world peace. Am I misreading it? * Graham Barr gb...@pobox.com [2009-10-09T10:36:48] yeah. I can see the benefit of machine readable changelogs. I am just not sure that META is the right place for it. I opposed the proposal for both the reasons above. -1 Agreed. David
Re: CMSP 31. Version changes
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 7:55 AM, David Golden xda...@gmail.com wrote: 31. Version changes Proposal: Description of changes in that versions and tags for changes. Useful for submission to Freshmeat and for quick review of changes. --Chorny 18:51, 30 September 2009 (BST) -1 for moving all of the changelog into META +0.5 for a keyword that contains text describing the *latest* change. No dates/tags/structure, etc. Just text. This would allow authors to specify change notes in a way that search.cpan.org or other sites could read without having to parse Changes themselves. It puts the burden on authors, not indexers. -- David
