On Monday, 24 December 2012 at 04:48:07 UTC, Kapps wrote:
On Monday, 24 December 2012 at 04:19:44 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
wrote:
On Sunday, December 23, 2012 23:13:53 Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
On 12/23/12 11:08 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> It's just the WHATSNEW section that makes no sense to
> automate.
Enhancement requests may fill most of the bill...
They definitely don't fill all of it though. We need to be
able to put specific
messages in the changelog separate from bugzilla entries.
I really don't see why it's that big a deal that the WHATSNEW
section isn't
automated though. It's the LIBBUGSFIXED section that causes
all the grief, and
that's easily automated.
- Jonathan M Davis
Personally I think it nicer that things like What's New would
be written out by a human. Instead of just "Enhancement #4713:
Add user-defined annotations", you can give a quick explanation
of what actually was added and a link to get more info about
it. Same for phobos modules and the like.
Would it be a crazy idea to move the page to the wiki, and only
pack it back into dmd when it gets packaged?
I'd say the problem with changelog.dd is the effort associated
with modifying it, no? On the wiki, it's basically "edit" "write"
"commit" "done".
The fact that you have to do an actual pull just to add an entry
to a changelog makes something that should be easy as pie a real
chore, and work grinds to a halt.
