Yes, when merging PRs changes.xml needs to be modified. When I am performing a 
release I have no way of knowing that a PR as not included in the changes, nor 
would I want to spend the time researching that.

I would suggest that when updating a dependency version that the changes.xml 
for the current version be checked to see if the same component is already 
there and then just update that.

Ralph


> On Jul 2, 2020, at 7:13 AM, Gary Gregory <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Personally, in most projects, I update changes.xml with my commits, and for
> PRs as a follow up commit. It is that much less for the release manager to
> do IMO.
> 
> What I do not ask is for contributors to updates changes.xml in PRs because
> that creates conflicts most of the time.
> 
> Gary
> 
> On Thu, Jul 2, 2020, 08:36 Carter Kozak <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> I wonder if we should wait until we're ready to cut a release to update
>> the changelog with dependency changes? That way we don't end up with
>> changelog entries for all intermediate versions of dependencies. The
>> release process is already relatively heavy and adding more friction to
>> ship a release isn't a great solution either.
>> 
>> -ck
>> 
>> On Thu, Jul 2, 2020, at 08:30, Gary Gregory wrote:
>>> That's fine with me. You will want to update changes.xml to track
>> changes.
>>> 
>>> Gary
>>> 
>>> On Thu, Jul 2, 2020, 04:10 Volkan Yazıcı <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Hello,
>>>> 
>>>> 1. I will approve GitHub dependabot PRs that pass the CI tests.
>>>> 2. I will (blindly?) cherry-pick them onto release-2.x.
>>>> 
>>>> Objections?
>>>> 
>>>> Kind regards.
>>>> 
>>> 
>> 


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