On Tue, 2011-08-23 at 12:00 +0200, Dominique Leuenberger a.k.a DimStar wrote: > Hi all, > > Same as I asked about one year ago: > http://mail.gnome.org/archives/networkmanager-list/2010-August/msg00047.html
Yes, I botched that part for 0.9. I've been trying hard to keep NEWS 0.8.x up-to-date but NEWS for 0.9 slipped. I'd since updated the NEWS file with many of the new features and items for 0.9. So I get half-credit here :) > Would it please be possibly to maintain a NEWS file together with the > checkins? This should not be a 'changelog' about every checkin, but a > rough overview of what is actually worthy to be noted between version > updates (a typo is not worthy imho). Yes, I've since updated; I also spent a while putting together a more consumer friendly blog post here, and I'll be sending the release email in the next few minutes based on that: http://blogs.gnome.org/dcbw/2011/08/25/when-the-sun-shines-well-shine-together/ > As a downstream packager it is terrible always having to run after all > kind of systems to find out what is new between any .minor release > (here from 0.8.9997 to 0.9 for example) and why it would be worthy to > package it for our users. Yeah, I understand completely and I'm sorry. When putting together the release mail and the blog post yesterday I went to look at NEWS (assuming I'd already updated it with new features) so that I could use the contents of it for the release mail and was like "Oh sh*t" because I know people have asked for me to keep it up to date before. Then I started thinking about a 'make release' target that would check if NEWS was updated within the last two days and fail the release tarball if it wasn't, so that this doesn't happen again. > In plus, our packaging policy even disallows packaging new versions > without a proper changelog entry. > > Thanks for considering this in the future release cycle. > > For 0.9 I assume there will be an announcement-mail coming out soon? Yes, today, with an overview of the changes. Dan _______________________________________________ networkmanager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
