On Feb 21, 2013, at 18:41 , Noah Slater <[email protected]> wrote: > The hours and days I am spending on this release are trying to make up for > a non-deterministic test suite that can take hours and hours to babysit, to > the point where I am having to automate my way around it.
I still haven’t seen any logs that I could use to help debug this. > > The NEWS and CHANGES stuff should take 5-10 minutes tops. But if it is > neglected, then the problem compounds, because now I have to look through > the timelines and organise things so we are consistent. > > > On 21 February 2013 17:32, Jan Lehnardt <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> On Feb 21, 2013, at 18:29 , Noah Slater <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Your response rests on a fallacy, in any case. >>> >>> Maintaining a list of release versions is going to be a PITA no matter >> what >>> we do. Especially when we have four or five divergent timelines. Moving >>> these to the docs only consolidates the maintenance into one file. This >>> will still require care and attention, and I believe it is appropriate of >>> me to remind people of that. The current state of affairs is a complete >>> mess. >> >> All I know is we spend hours and days on this each release and I don’t >> think this needs to be the case. >> >> Best >> Jan >> -- >> >> >> >>> >>> >>> On 21 February 2013 17:19, Jan Lehnardt <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> On Feb 21, 2013, at 18:16 , Noah Slater <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hi, >>>>> >>>>> If you're doing a release, please ensure proper NEWS and CHANGES >> hygiene >>>>> The recent releases went out with a entries in these files for versions >>>> we >>>>> have not yet released. And some are missing entries for previous >> versions >>>>> we have released. I have added a few additional instructions to the >> wiki, >>>>> so hopefully these will be caught next time. >>>> >>>> Alternatively, let’s finally kill this superfluous, error-prone, >>>> time-wasting >>>> distraction from actual work and ensure the important information >> contained >>>> in it are covered in the docs. >>>> >>>> Cheers >>>> Jan >>>> -- >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> NS >> >> > > > -- > NS
