Eric Kow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Dec 08, 2008 at 23:13:33 +0100, Petr Rockai wrote: >> so there's a fair amount of work that went into 2.2, and it would be great to >> have it documented in a user-digestible way. Unfortunately, I know zilch >> about >> how our changelog is made (or whether that work is already done, or almost >> done). > > The ChangeLog is now hand-written. In the darcs-news repository > http://code.haskell.org/darcs/darcs-news > (darcs-news is dormant until we can find a new editor, sorry folks!) Thanks for the info. What I have usually done on other projects (mostly one-person stuff) is, after tagging a release, going through darcs changes --from-tag <previous-release> and writing up a changelog from there. I acknowledge that with darcs, this is a little more tedious, since the number of patches is much higher.
I suppose here it would help to have the "short (secure) version identifiers" (with secure being strictly optional here) thingy that Zooko has been asking for like forever. But, as an alternative, I propose that if someone picks up the weekly news, they, with every issue, tag the darcs repository with news-YYYY-MM-DD, whoever ends up writing the final changelog can: $ darcs changes --from-tag=<prev-release> --tag news <rip out the interesting bits from those news entries> $ darcs changes --from-tag=news which ideally would contain very few changes Ideally, news-n would ideally cover everything since news-(n-1) for this to work usefully. > Eventually, it would be good to update > http://wiki.darcs.net/index.html/MaintainerTips > with your experiences. It also wants to be updated wrt. maintainer/release-manager split and such. I'll look at it when I have some idle time. Yours, Petr. -- Peter Rockai | me()mornfall!net | prockai()redhat!com http://blog.mornfall.net | http://web.mornfall.net "In My Egotistical Opinion, most people's C programs should be indented six feet downward and covered with dirt." -- Blair P. Houghton on the subject of C program indentation _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users
