Hello, I am Rishabh Madan and I will be a GSoC applicant this year under Mercurial.
I wanted to discuss about the Release notes extension project.[1] <https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/SummerOfCode/Ideas2017> I have gone through the mailing list discussions. I am currently understanding the intial patch sent by Gregory Szorc, for the releasenotes extension. I would like to get a few inputs for this project: 1. Commit message parser (i) I feel this is the core of the idea. From what I understand, we will have to keep a specific format for the commit messages that will be parsed and output will be stored in a changelog. But, this is a extension that would help other organizations as well. Do we expect them to abide by certain format for the commit message? (ii) Is this going to be a hybrid process? I mean, will the notes once created be edited by maintainers at a later stage? (iii) The extension shouldn't add extremely small changesets to the changelog. I think this can be done by adding some keyword to the commit message (like [IGNORERST]). 2. Linking hgweb to release notes I found this idea quite intriguing. Can someone please elaborate a bit more on what exactly we're trying to accomplish with this? I also found some open source implementations like [2] <https://github.com/skywinder/github-changelog-generator> similar to this idea that might help in implementing this project. I would really appreciate if someone can point out the issues and features I may have missed. Also, any relevant resources or links for further readings would help too. Thanks. Rishabh Madan ᐧ
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