On Sunday, December 23, 2012 20:55:03 Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: > Hello, > > > We've discussed this a bit before. It's becoming obvious that > changelog.dd doesn't scale well: it's difficult to keep in sync, people > forget to add bugs to it etc. > > How about we abolish changelog.dd in favor of bugzilla queries? There's > a simple rule to follow: all changes should have a corresponding entry > in bugzilla. This is easy to enforce. > > > Destroy,
It's not enough. We need to be able to add items to the changelog separately from bugzilla. There are pretty much always extra items in the changelog which are not bug reports or enhancement requests, and many of them make no sense as items in bugzilla - especially when the whole point of putting them there is to explain something rather than listing a bug number. So, I fully support doing something to automate the portion of the changelog which contains all of the bugzilla entries, but the portion above that where non-bugzilla stuff is entered still needs to be there. We can handle it in some way other than changelog.dd if we want to, but we still need a way to enter stuff into the changelog by hand. - Jonathan M Davis
