On 01/27/2014 03:32 PM, Rob Crittenden wrote: > Petr Spacek wrote: >> On 24.1.2014 18:46, Dmitri Pal wrote: >>> On 01/24/2014 10:39 AM, Rob Crittenden wrote: >>>> Martin Kosek wrote: >>>>> When working on release, this question comes to my mind every time - >>>>> what is >>>>> the following page good for? :) >>>>> >>>>> http://www.freeipa.org/page/Changelog >>>>> >>>>> To me, it is usually just an annoyance of the release process. You >>>>> can simply >>>>> get all the data with "git log" derivatives, so I do not see a point of >>>>> maintaining this page. >>>>> >>>>> I see benefits of having shortlog in Release pages like [1], but not >>>>> with this >>>>> one. I am thus proposing to deprecate it. >>>>> >>>>> [1] http://www.freeipa.org/page/Releases/3.3.3 >>>>> >>>>> Thanks. >>>>> >>>> >>>> I used to just cherry-pick the big things then figured that some >>>> people care about everything so switched to that instead. Yes, the >>>> data is in git, but if one doesn't know git well then it can be hard >>>> to tell where something was fixed. >>>> >>>> I won't yell if it's dropped, but it's just a cut-n-paste after all. >>> >>> It is internet search-able and can be easily pointed to in different >>> follow up materials. >>> I would rather keep it, but a wiki formatting script might be a good >>> idea. >> >> Our git repo has nice and responsive web interface: >> https://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/freeipa.git/ >> >> The advantage is that you can read full commit messages so you can see >> links to tickets in Trac which are not present in shortlog. >> >> Given that I think that Changelog wiki page is mostly annoyance, it >> could simply redirect to repo web interface (may be to listings for >> specific branches). >> > > It is useful because you can more easily see what made it into the particular > dot release rather than finding the patch you want then knowing to search > backwards for the Become xx.yy commit. I saw it as a poor-man's way of finding > changes.
Ok, though I still think that git and cgit should be the authoritative source of searches like this... > It gets updated 3 or 4 times a year, so it is hardly a burden. 3-4 times? I see 19 updates happening in 2013 in this page. With each release (even a minor one) we do, we need to do prepare shortlog, apply wiki and the specific date format and paste it here. > > It is certainly duplicated information and I won't fight any further for it. > > rob Noted :) Martin _______________________________________________ Freeipa-devel mailing list Freeipa-devel@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/freeipa-devel