On Thu, 2012-11-08 at 09:54 -0500, Gary Gregory wrote: > On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 9:46 AM, Oleg Kalnichevski <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Thu, 2012-11-08 at 07:33 -0500, Gary Gregory wrote: > > > In Commons land we generate release notes automatically. Is there a > > > reason it is not done this like here? > > > > > > Gary > > > > > > > Gary > > > > No reason other than inertia on my part. I generally find it more > > manageable updating the release notes at the same time as committing a > > fix or a changeset to the repository rather than trying to generate > > release notes shortly before a release. Usually, come release, I can > > hardly remembering what all those issues were about. This also allows me > > to omit issues I deem unimportant. But as any manual process, I fully > > admit it can be error-prone. > > > > It's the same process over there except that commits are made to code and > to a changes.xml file which is used to generate an HTML report (as part of > the Maven reports, see Commons IO [1] for example) and a txt file at > release time. >
I'll happily adjust if someone can lay the groundwork for using changes.xml instead of a plain RELEASE_NOTES.txt. Oleg --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
